Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13163292
Keywords
Battle of Lepanto; remote sensing techniques; shipwrecks; maritime archaeology
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- Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography
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A series of marine remote sensing and ground-truth surveys were conducted at NW Gulf of Patras (W. Greece) to relocate the findings of a pioneer survey from 1971 and interpret newly collected data in the light of modern developments in marine geosciences. The study also detailed the site formation processes of two modern shipwrecks, detected mound clusters and individual mounds, and found noticeable seafloor morphological features around the wreck sites.
A series of marine remote sensing and ground-truth surveys were carried out at NW Gulf of Patras (W. Greece). The same area was surveyed in 1971 by Throckmorton, Edgerton and Yalouris, who are among the pioneers in the application of remote sensing techniques to underwater archaeology. The researchers conducted a surface reconnaissance survey to locate the site where the Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571. Their remote sensing surveying resulted in a map of two target areas that showed promise as possible remnants of wrecks from that battle and proposed a ground truth survey for their identification and in the detection of two modern shipwrecks. The ground truth survey was never fulfilled. The objectives of our repeat surveys, which were completed 50 years later, were to relocate the findings of this pioneer survey with higher spatial and vertical resolution, to ground-truth the targets, fulfilling their investigation, and to interpret the newly collected data in the light of modern developments in marine geosciences. Our repeat surveys detected mound clusters and individual mounds referred to target areas. These mounds could be interpreted as the surface expression of mud and fluid expulsion from the underlying deformed soft sediments. The ground truth survey demonstrated that the tops of mounds represent biogenic mounds. The ROV survey did not show any indication of wreck remnants of the Battle of Lepanto within the two survey areas. The site formation processes of the two modern shipwrecks were also studied in detail. Two noticeable seafloor morphological features were detected around the wreck sites; field of small-sized pockmarks and seafloor depressions. We would like to dedicate this work to the memory of Peter Throckmorton and Harold E. Edgerton, who are among the pioneers in the formative years of underwater archaeology in Greece.
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