Predictive Preservation:

A computer system that integrates geographical information system
(GIS) capabilities with data acquisition components and a global
information base will serve as a tool for predictive
preservation.  The system will use predictive modeling software
to process remotely sensed data from satellite, aerial, and
ground platforms using multispectral scanners, side looking and
ground penetrating radar, thermal infrared scanners, sonar,
magnetometry, high resolution stereoscopic digital video, and
other sensory devices.  Additional data resources will be
acquired from oral histories, archival sources, and existing
resource inventories.  

This integrated predictive system will become the foundation for
a variety of the activities of the preservation process.  The
predictive system will aid in the discovery and analysis of
historic and prehistoric sites.  It will facilitate the
documentation of culturally significant resources and the
description of sought after cultural events.  The system will be
effective in understanding physical threats to cultural
resources, and in prescribing treatments to ensure the
preservation of the integrity of individual resources.  With an
interface to meteorological and geological databases, the
predictive system will also serve to mitigate the threat of
imminent natural cataclysms by providing advance risk analysis in
response to detected patterns of environmental stress.

<ffile67>   Integrated Planning