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The declassification at the end of the last century of over 900,000 photographs acquired by the corona, argon, lanyard, gambit and hexagon US photo reconnaissance satellite programmes between 1960 and 1980 has resulted in an archive of declassified intelligence satellite photographs (DISP) that is both global in scale and easily accessible. As a source of low-cost, relatively high-resolution satellite imagery, the DISP archive is being used extensively by archaeologists to investigate landscapes in the arid regions of Asia Minor and the Middle East, as well as in more temperate regions. In this chapter, the nature and archaeological uses of the various DISP products are described, and representative examples are provided in order to permit the reader to appreciate their archaeological potential. |
