Potential Climate Change Threats to Underwater Cultural Heritage
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Potential Climate Change Threats to Underwater Cultural Heritage
Description
Climate change is our greatest challenge. The paper is looking for the impact on underwater cultural heritage
(UCH), deep oceans, and coastal zone through literature reference and case studies. It will discuss the causes of
climate change, the results, with a focus on the sea surface temperature (SST) changes in the Mediterranean Basin
and the Pacific. SST will be calculated using Landsat 8 which is equipped by two bands of thermal infrared sensor
(TIRS). It is suitable for coastal zone monitoring due to its high resolution. The study depends on the use of
Landsat 7 which carried the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor. Both images are interpreted and
analyzed on the QGIS to calculate the radiance and reflectance of each image to conclude the value of SST. The
paper will finish by presenting the cycle factors which threaten the UCH and summarize the relationship between
the change of climate and the UCH and how they help researchers understand climate in the past and the
adaptation by humans in past.
(UCH), deep oceans, and coastal zone through literature reference and case studies. It will discuss the causes of
climate change, the results, with a focus on the sea surface temperature (SST) changes in the Mediterranean Basin
and the Pacific. SST will be calculated using Landsat 8 which is equipped by two bands of thermal infrared sensor
(TIRS). It is suitable for coastal zone monitoring due to its high resolution. The study depends on the use of
Landsat 7 which carried the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor. Both images are interpreted and
analyzed on the QGIS to calculate the radiance and reflectance of each image to conclude the value of SST. The
paper will finish by presenting the cycle factors which threaten the UCH and summarize the relationship between
the change of climate and the UCH and how they help researchers understand climate in the past and the
adaptation by humans in past.
Creator
Sirine Saad El-Dine Ghiye
Publisher
The Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Date
2023
Language
English
Bibliographic Citation
Ghiye, Sirine Saad El-Dine. 2023. “Potential Climate Change Threats to underwater cultural heritage.” Edited by Jennifer Craig, Jay Mok, T. Kurt Knoerl, Elena Perez-Alvaro, and Ole Varmer. In Proceedings of Fifth Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage: Gwangju, The Republic of Korea, November 13-18 2023. The Museum of Underwater Archaeology. URL: https://apconf.omeka.net/exhibits/show/apconfproceedings/item/1960
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Sirine Saad El-Dine Ghiye, “Potential Climate Change Threats to Underwater Cultural Heritage,” APCONF-MUCH Proceedings Recently Added Items, accessed October 24, 2026, https://apconf-much.org/proceedings/items/show/589.