Google: Archaeologist discovers 2,000 sites from thousands of miles away

Professor Kennedy projects Google Earth imagery on the high-resolution tiled display in the iVec Supercomputing Lab at UWA. Source: http://www.oneworldmanystories.com/new_sites.html

"It is readily apparent that the use of GE [Google Earth] for the prospection and identification of sites has great potential when dealing with a huge area that is otherwise largely inaccessible on the ground." – Professor David Kennedy, University of Western Australia

See the whole article at Google Earth's 'One World. Many Stories'.
See what else the world is achieving with GE at Search Stories.

Bing Maps for Site Identification

After spending about 20 hours in the last week working with Bing Maps (i.e. their aerial/ satellite imagery) I can report that:

It is slow and difficult to work with compared to GE

It is mainly poor resolution of no value archaeologically

Where it is good it is often superb.

For parts of 'Arabia' where Bing is superor to GE I have identified over 100 new Kites (to take just the most obvious cateory)

-DLK