## Materials and Methods
Thanks to its resolution, this source quickly attracted the attention of archaeologists and is gradually attaining a similar position as indispensable source data for remote sensing to that previously held by the CORONA images. Within the data analysis of this project, five images captured by the KH-9 Hexagon system from the years 1972-1975 were used. The category of current satellite images in this case is represented by freely available data in the form of aerial views of the distributors Microsoft Bing maps and ESRI. Their respective resolutions of 0.3 m and 0.5 m is fully sufficient to create a topographic plan, reflecting the current state of the site (Figure 2). In addition to satellite sources, topographic maps of the area were also used as base interpretation layers. Due to the fact that large-scale topographic maps are not available for Iraqi Kurdistan, the available sources of historical medium-scale and small-scale topographic maps were used as an additional tool to understand the landscape context of the site. These sources, due to their low resolution, were not used in the phase of detailed topographic analysis of the village of Qazbagi. These map outputs are a common part of information reports describing individual operations, their characteristics, and a list of affected villages [1]. \begin{table}
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**Type** & **Source** & **Date** & **Scale/Resolution** \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Topographic map} & National Imagery and & & \\  & Mapping Agency & 1997 & 1:100,000 \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Topographic map} & Soviet military topographic & & \\  & maps & & \\ \hline Topographic map & USGS maps & 1991 & 1:250,000 \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Topographic map} & Army Map Service. & & \\  & Washington DC & & \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Satellite historical} & CORONA & & \\  & KH-4B/DS1104-2138 & 16 August 1968 & 1.8 m \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Satellite historical} & KH-9 HEXAGON/D3C1204-100093A003 & 17 October 1972 & 0.6 m \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Satellite historical} & KH-9 HEXAGON/D3C1204-200196A007 & 26 October 1972 & 0.6 m \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Satellite historical} & KH-9 HEXAGON/D3C1206-100170F043 & 29 July 1973 & 0.6 m \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Satellite historical} & KH-9 HEXAGON/D3C1206-100170A043 & 29 July 1973 & 0.6 m \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Satellite historical} & KH-9 HEXAGON/D3C1209-300460A059 & 08 January 1975 & 0.6 m \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Satellite historical} & OrbView-3 & 14 March 2005 & 1 m \\ \hline Satellite contemporary & Microsoft Bing maps & 2013–2014 & 0.3-0.5 m \\ \hline Satellite contemporary & ESRI World Imagery & 2019 & 0.5 m \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Overview of the remote sensing data sources. Medium-scale topographic maps are represented by a historical map at a scale of 1:100,000, created by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency from the 1990s. Such map materials not only represent topographical features but also elevation in the form of contour lines. Small-scale map sources include collections of Soviet military topographic maps at a scale of 1:200,000, collections of USGS maps at a scale of 1:250,000, and the historical maps of the Army Map Service, Washington, DC, which have a scale of 1:253,440 (Figure 3). Freely available digital surface models (DSMs) of SRTM (available via the portal of the United States Geological Survey, USGS) at a resolution of 30 m and DEM ALOS Pulsar (created and distributed through the Alaska Satellite Facility) at a resolution of 12.5 m were used as the digital elevation base layer. The DEM was heavily based on the latter in order to obtain the most accurate result in the orthorectification of raster data. The research was carried out in several phases. 1. Analysis of the remote sensing data (current and historical satellite imagery), detection of important locations within Qazbagi village, and its mapping. The historical satellite images from the spy systems are the most suitable source of information.