Traditional free-ranging livestock farming as a management strategy for biological and cultural landscape diversity: A case from the southern apennines

C Troiano, M Buglione, S Petrelli, S Belardinelli… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mediterranean mountain landscapes are undergoing a widespread phenomenon of
abandonment. This brings, as a consequence, the loss of traditional land use practices, such …

Reaching beyond GIS for comprehensive 3D visibility analysis

R Wróżyński, K Pyszny, M Wróżyńska - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024 - Elsevier
Visibility analyses are one of the fundamental geospatial processing tasks applied in various
fields. Recent technological advancements have accelerated viewshed calculations and …

How does tourist development influence traditional mountain landscapes? A case study from the Western Beskids, Poland

A Żemła-Siesicka, M Sobala - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
In many mountainous regions, ongoing reforestation leads to the permanent shrinkage of
traditional landscapes connected with past human activity. Tourism is often perceived as a …

Multi-item assessment of physiognomic diversity of geocomplexes as a comprehensive method of visual-aesthetic landscape assessment

P Śleszyński - Geographies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The paper presents the development of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological
foundations of a complex and novel method for evaluating visual–aesthetic values of …

Parallel algorithm for multi-viewpoint viewshed analysis on the GPU grounded in target cluster segmentation

T Xiao, J Deng, C Wen, Q Gu - International Journal of Digital Earth, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Viewshed analysis is a significant method for GIS spatial analysis. The needed
computational resources rise sharply with the increase in the number of viewpoints, making …

A fast serial computation approach for computing viewshed of a region by detecting key spots on the terrain

A Salehi, A Halabian, F Ahmadi Beni… - Geocarto …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Computing a viewshed for a space (a polygon), rather than a single location (a point),
requires analysis of the maximum terrain extent observable from any location within the …

The assessment of hydrogeosites in the Fann mountains, Tajikistan as a basis for sustainable tourism

K Pukowiec-Kurda, O Rahmonov, M Sobala… - Resources, 2021 - mdpi.com
Despite the fact that the Fann Mountains are among the most popular tourist destinations in
Tajikistan, they are still in the first stage of tourism development. This represents a great …

The Potential of UAV Data as Refinement of Outdated Inputs for Visibility Analyses

T Mikita, L Janošíková, J Caha, E Avoiani - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Visibility analyses in geographical information systems (GIS) are used to quantify the visible
and non-visible parts of the landscape. This study aims to evaluate the changes in viewshed …

[PDF][PDF] The Assessment of Hydrogeosites in the Fann Mountains, Tajikistan as a Basis for Sustainable Tourism. Resources 2021, 10, 126

K Pukowiec-Kurda, O Rahmonov, M Sobala… - 2021 - academia.edu
Despite the fact that the Fann Mountains are among the most popular tourist destinations in
Tajikistan, they are still in the first stage of tourism development. This represents a great …