A satellite change-detection layer anchored to the published footprints of the Gimilsin Temple and Palace of the Rulers at Tell Asmar, now extended to the private-house blocks and grave areas mapped in the Diyala houses-and-graves volume. New disturbance — looting pits, vehicle tracks, encroaching construction — is flagged inside and around those documented zones, with alerts ranked by documented grave density so the most looting-prone burial areas surface first. Multi-date imagery is radiometrically normalized before comparison, and the coarse 1972–1992 Landsat archive is used only as a mound-scale historical baseline.
The framework reveals a high-precision monitoring tool that transforms static archival data into an active security asset. While technically sound in its use of radiometric normalization and masking, the project faces a critical security paradox where the data used to protect the site could inadvertently serve as a roadmap for looters.
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Essential for balancing the technical strength of the radiometric normalization against the internal weakness of the digitization burden and the threat of data leaks to looters. · Generated 2026-10-12 by cavi/gemma4-31b-it-awq-4bit-32kAI-generated