Replication Data for: Application of Multi-Temporal and Multisource Satellite Imagery in the Study of Irrigated Landscapes in Arid Climates – Central Plain of Euphrates

The dataset consists of selected results of the UnderTheSands project focusing on the tests area located 70 km south of Baghdad, between Hillah and Al Diwaniya in Iraq. UnderTheSands is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funded under the Horizon Europe programme of the European Union (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101062705) at the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC). The project aimed to locate and reconstruct the irrigation network of the areas under study in the Near East and explore their chronological dynamics, and create a workflow for large scale irrigation mapping. The test area, Central Floodplain of Euphrates, covers the proximity of ancient Babylon and Kish. It has hot desert climate (BWh) with an avarage precipitation around 148.3 mm. It is highly transformed by ancient and modern irrigation practices (Adams 1981). The dataset represents updated partial results, which were already published in Remote Sensing journal (Buławka and Orengo 2024). It consists of network of levees and river beds stored in GeoPackage and Shapefile formats, metadata, QGIS project and styles. The vector data have been classified according to the type and their width. Current version of the dataset does not have information about the chronology of the features.

本数据集包含UnderTheSands项目的精选研究成果，该项目聚焦伊拉克境内希拉（Hillah）与迪瓦尼耶（Al Diwaniya）之间、巴格达以南70公里处的试验区。UnderTheSands项目是欧盟欧洲地平线（Horizon Europe）计划（项目编号：HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101062705）资助的玛丽·斯克沃多夫斯卡-居里（Marie Skłodowska-Curie）博士后奖学金项目，依托加泰罗尼亚古典考古研究所（ICAC）的景观考古研究组（GIAP）开展。本项目旨在定位并复原近东研究区域内的灌溉网络，探究其年代演化动态，并构建一套适用于大规模灌溉制图的工作流程。本次研究的试验区为幼发拉底河（Euphrates）中央泛滥平原，覆盖古巴比伦与基什的周边区域。该区域属热沙漠气候（BWh），年平均降水量约148.3毫米，受古代与现代灌溉活动的强烈改造（Adams, 1981）。本数据集包含已在《遥感》（Remote Sensing）期刊发表的阶段性更新成果（Buławka与Orengo, 2024）。数据集内容包括以GeoPackage与Shapefile格式存储的堤岸与河床网络数据、元数据、QGIS工程文件及样式文件。矢量数据已按照要素类型与宽度进行分类。本数据集当前版本未包含相关要素的年代学信息。