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We examine the factors that influence the approach to geospatial analysis of a particular site by presenting five case studies. While there are similarities between some of these sites, there are also significant differences leading to very different analyses.
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Notes
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https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/. Accessed on 13 May 2020.
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Numbers within square brackets refer to annotations in Fig. 5.3.
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The Scroll annotates two sequences of numbers for riverfront façades: 1-32 running north–south on the right and 1-18 running south–north on left banks. We refer to these as R1-R32 and L1-L18, respectively.
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https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-archive/seringapatam/intro.html. Accessed on 13 May 2020.
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http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/a/003ktop00000115u06700002.html. Accessed on 17 April 2020.
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Rajani, M.B. (2021). Case Studies. In: Patterns in Past Settlements: Geospatial Analysis of Imprints of Cultural Heritage on Landscapes. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7466-5_5
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