AiQala – methods

Data

  • Multitemporal satellite imagery
    • Multispectral – LANDSAT, Sentinel-2
    • SAR – Sentinel-1, NISAR
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) – ICEYE
  • Archival images – HEXAGON
  • Digital Elevation Data (TanDEM-X 30m)
  • Topographic maps

Project goals and methods

  • Detect qala using ML
  • Reconstruct the water management system (RS + ML):
    • natural and altered paleochannels
    • canals
    • qanats
    • other features: terraces and check-dams (seylab)
  • Reconstruct road networks (history + GIS)
  • Investigate if qala are interconnected or hidden
  • Statistically proven relation between qala villages and communication routes, canals and qanats
  • Analyse qala plans
    • Architecture
    • Space Syntax
    • 3D modelling
  • Analysis of the habitative qualities of qala