Integrating Remote Sensing and GIS for Cultural Heritage Management: Case Studies of Paphos and Ancient Jeddah

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10.2991/978-94-6239-721-7_3How to use a DOI?

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Remote sensing; Geographic Information Systems; Cultural heritage management

Abstract

Cultural heritage, which has cultural and historical value, is important and plays an important role in human society. In recent years, many challenges have effect the protection pf cultural heritage. New pressures were brought by rapid urban expansion and frequent natural disasters to heritage conservation. Many previous studies mainly target the use of a single technology or individual case studies, and only a small number carry out systematic comparative analysis. The paper studies how remote sensing and GIS can be of help in monitoring cultural heritage. The research is about the effects of natural disasters and city’s growth. Two case studies are used by this research. A case in question is the archaeological landscape of Paphos Archaeological Park in Cyprus. Another instance is the historic district of Historic Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. In the Paphos case, those doing research used Synthetic Aperture Radar and Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar. These ways helped researchers to find ground movement after earthquakes. For the case of Jeddah, researchers used satellite images that came from Landsat. Researchers also made use of an analysis of Geographic Information System. With these tools, researchers were able to study how city growth affects the historic area. The research results show that every technology has its particular strengths in heritage monitoring. Different tools are able to show various kinds of information. When researchers use several tools side - by - side, they can obtain a clearer view of possible dangers. The study also gives ideas for using remote sensing and GIS to protect heritage. The research may help researchers to plan better protection strategies in the long - run.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhehao Han
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/07/06
TI  - Integrating Remote Sensing and GIS for Cultural Heritage Management: Case Studies of Paphos and Ancient Jeddah
BT  - Proceedings of the 2026 6th International Conference on Public Management and Intelligent Society (PMIS 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 13
EP  - 22
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-721-7_3
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-721-7_3
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