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Landscape character assessment with GIS using map-based indicators and photographs in the relationship between landscape and roads
Año:2016

Áreas de investigación
  • Ciencias naturales y ciencias de la salud,
  • Ingeniería civil y arquitectura,
  • Transporte

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Descripción
Planning and monitoring of landscapes cannot be reduced to its outstanding features, but must take into account all its characteristics. In this context, the relationship of landscape with roads is of particular importance, because roads alter the territory?s environmental resources but also constitute a resource through which the individual comes into contact with the landscape. The aim of this work is to design a methodology to evaluate both the character and the scenic quality of the landscape as viewed from motorways and to provide measures to assess whether the motorway conveys the character of the landscape of which it forms part. The main contribution of this research consists of assessing landscape character through a novel series of map-based indicators and combining the findings with a photo-based method of assessing visual landscape quality. The method has been applied to a case study around a motorway in Madrid Region (Spain). Landscape character values regarding coherence, complexity, naturalness, visual scale, disturbance, historicity, and ephemera are obtained using Geographic Information Systems. Additionally, the landscape quality results derived using photographs allow the incorporation of the user?s perception at a local scale.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
Journal of Environmental Management
ISSN
0301-4797
Factor de impacto JCR
3,188
Información de impacto
Datos JCR del año 2013
Volumen
DOI
Número de revista
180
Desde la página
324
Hasta la página
334
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SIN MES
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Planificación del Transporte
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de Investigación del Transporte
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Civil: Transporte y Territorio
  • Departamento: Ingeniería y Gestión Forestal y Ambiental