Name: 【TED】Sarah Parcak: Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations -- with satellites (Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations -- with satellites | Sarah Parcak)
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a 35-year-old Yale graduate and professor set out from his rainforest camp

He saw rising from the dense rainforest foliage

this incredible interlocking maze of structures

is that it was the first funded by National Geographic,

and it graced the front cover of its magazine in 1912.

This professor used state-of-the-art photography equipment

forever changing the face of exploration.

discovered and explored by Hiram Bingham.

I invite you all on an incredible journey with me,

a 37-year-old Yale graduate and professor.

We will do nothing less than use state-of-the-art technology

This is a dream started by Hiram Bingham,

making archaeological exploration more open, inclusive,

and at a scale simply not previously possible.

that we will begin the 2016 TED Prize platform

We will be taking Hiram Bingham's impossible dream

It has amazing Moche pottery of human figures.

we are going to partnering with some incredible organizations,

first of all with DigitalGlobe, the world's largest provider

of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery.

this amazing crowdsourcing platform they have.

with the MH370 crash and search for the airplane.

Of course, they'll also be providing us with the satellite imagery.

National Geographic will be helping us with education and of course exploration.

As well, they'll be providing us with rich content for the platform,

including some of the archival imagery like you saw at the beginning of this talk

We've already begun to build and plan the platform,

is already beginning to look at some of the satellite imagery.

Of course, what you can see here is 0.3-meter data.

This is site called Chan Chan in northern Peru.

It's a really amazing city, but let's zoom in.

This is the type and quality of data that you all will get to see.

You can see individual structures, individual buildings.

And we've already begun to find previously unknown sites.

What we can say already is that as part of the platform,

you will all help discover thousands of previously unknown sites,

Unfortunately, we've also begun to uncover large-scale looting at sites,

but the great part is that all of this data

is going to be shared with archaeologists on the front lines

So I was just in Peru, meeting with their Minister of Culture

We'll be collaborating closely with them.

the site is going to be in both English and Spanish,

which is absolutely essential to make sure

that people in Peru and across Latin America can participate.

Our main project coprincipal investigator is the gentleman you see here,

As a respected Peruvian archaeologist and former vice-minister,

Dr. Castillo will be helping us coordinate and share the data with archaeologists

so they can explore these sites on the ground.

He also runs this amazing drone mapping program,

some of the images of which you can see behind me here and here.

And this data will be incorporated into the platform,

and also he'll be helping to image some of the new sites you help find.

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【TED】Sarah Parcak: Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations -- with satellites (Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations -- with satellites | Sarah Parcak)

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absolutely

incredible

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