Sarah Parcak: Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations -- with satellites
Sarah Parcak: På jakt efter Perus förlorade civilisationer - med satelliter
Like a modern-day Indiana Jones, Sarah Parcak uses satellite images to locate lost ancient sites. The winner of the 2016 TED Prize, her wish is to protect the world’s shared cultural heritage. Full bio
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set out from his rainforest camp
och professor sitt läger i regnskogen
för en brant backe
the dense rainforest foliage
maze of structures
virrvarr av formationer
by National Geographic,
National Geographic bekostade,
of its magazine in 1912.
på tidningen 1912.
photography equipment
toppmodern fotoutrustning
att utforska.
on an incredible journey with me,
till en fantastisk resa med mig,
than use state-of-the-art technology
av den senaste tekniken
av Hiram Bingham,
more open, inclusive,
mer öppen, allomfattande,
not previously possible.
varit möjlig tidigare.
the 2016 TED Prize platform
2016 "TED Prize platform"
Hiram Bingham's impossible dream
Hiram Binghams otänkbara dröm
till en fantastisk framtid
of human figures.
i form av mänskliga figurer.
with some incredible organizations,
med några fantastiska organisationer,
the world's largest provider
världens största leverantör
commercial satellite imagery.
kommersiella satellitbilder.
platform they have.
and search for the airplane.
och sökandet efter flygplanet.
with the satellite imagery.
att förse oss med satellitbilder.
med utbildning och naturligtvis forskning.
with education and of course exploration.
with rich content for the platform,
med rikt innehåll för plattformen,
like you saw at the beginning of this talk
som du såg i början
dokumentära bildmaterial.
to build and plan the platform,
och planera plattformen,
at some of the satellite imagery.
på några av satellitbilderna.
is 0.3-meter data.
in northern Peru.
i norra Peru.
but let's zoom in.
låt oss zooma in.
that you all will get to see.
ni alla kommer att få se.
individual buildings.
enskilda byggnader.
to find previously unknown sites.
att hitta tidigare okända platser.
is that as part of the platform,
är att som en del av plattformen,
thousands of previously unknown sites,
tusentals tidigare okända platser,
to uncover large-scale looting at sites,
storskalig plundring vid platser,
is that all of this data
with archaeologists on the front lines
meeting with their Minister of Culture
i möte med deras kulturminister
samarbete med dem.
på både engelska och spanska,
in both English and Spanish,
Latinamerika ska kunna delta.
Latin America can participate.
is the gentleman you see here,
är mannen ni ser här,
and former vice-minister,
och tidigare viceminister,
and share the data with archaeologists
samordna och dela data med arkeologer
these sites on the ground.
platserna på marken.
drone mapping program,
drönarkarteringsprojekt,
you can see behind me here and here.
bakom mig här och här.
into the platform,
i plattformen,
some of the new sites you help find.
av de nya platserna ni hittar.
with education, outreach,
med utbildning, uppsökande verksamhet,
Preservation Initiative,
poorest communities
mest kända arkeologiska platser.
most well-known archaeological sites.
and business training.
och säljutbildning.
to create beautiful handicrafts
att skapa vackra hantverk
to treasure their cultural heritage
att värdesätta sitt kulturarv
with 24 of these women
med 24 av dessa kvinnor
called Pachacamac, just outside Lima.
kallas Pachacamac, strax utanför Lima.
will help us transform communities
att hjälpa oss att förändra samhällen
that you help to discover.
ni hjälper till att upptäcka.
this platform to the world,
plattformen till hela världen,
tusentals e-postmeddelanden
thousands of emails
professorer, lärare, studenter,
professors, educators, students,
who are so excited to help participate.
som är så glada att få delta.
amazing places for us to help discover,
fantastiska platser att utforska,
to be looking for Atlantis,
leta efter Atlantis,
to launch this platform.
att lansera denna plattform.
by the end of the year.
vid slutet av året.
in the past few weeks are any indication,
de senaste veckorna är en indikation,
is just going to be beyond imagination.
vara bortom all fantasi.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sarah Parcak - Satellite archaeologist + TED Prize winnerLike a modern-day Indiana Jones, Sarah Parcak uses satellite images to locate lost ancient sites. The winner of the 2016 TED Prize, her wish is to protect the world’s shared cultural heritage.
Why you should listen
There may be hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. Sarah Parcak wants to locate them. As a space archaeologist, she analyzes high-resolution imagery collected by satellites in order to identify subtle changes to the Earth’s surface that might signal man-made features hidden from view. A TED Senior Fellow and a National Geographic Explorer, Parcak wrote the textbook on satellite archaeology and founded the Laboratory for Global Observation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her goal: to make the world's invisible history visible once again.
In Egypt, Parcak's techniques have helped locate 17 potential pyramids, and more than 3,100 potential forgotten settlements. She's also made discoveries in the Viking world (as seen in the PBS Nova special, Vikings Unearthed) and across the Roman Empire (as shown in the BBC documentary, Rome’s Lost Empire). Her methods also offer a new way to understand how ancient sites are being affected by looting and urban development. By satellite-mapping Egypt and comparing sites over time, Parcak has noted a 1,000 percent increase in looting since 2009. It’s likely that millions of dollars worth of artifacts are stolen each year. Parcak hopes that, through her work, unknown sites can be protected to preserve our rich, vibrant history.
As the winner of the 2016 TED Prize, Parcak asked the world to help in this important work. By building a citizen science platform for archaeology, GlobalXplorer.org, Parcak invites anyone with an internet connection to help find the next potential looting pit or unknown tomb. GlobalXplorer launched on January 30, 2017, with volunteers working together to map Peru. Other countries will follow, as the platform democratizes discovery and makes satellite-mapping rapid and cost-effective.
Sarah Parcak | Speaker | TED.com