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Segregation and neighborhood change in northern cities: New historical GIS data from 1900–1930 [PDF]
Historical Methods, 2016 Allison Shertzer, John Logan
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Historical GIS Research in Canada [PDF]
Ecological Restoration, 2014 Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities.
Colleen Beard +2 more
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Land, 2021 In order to assess the dynamics of forests and the effectiveness of their management strategies, it is necessary to develop monitoring systems based on qualitative and quantitative tools for their conservation, valorization and restoration. This approach
Giuseppe Cillis +2 more
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Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, 2019 This chapter offers an overview on the use of historical maps in GIS for the study of environment and landscape. The chapter starts with an introduction on the value of historical maps, their “definition” and a short review of the main types of historical maps that can be useful in a GIS analysis.
S. Piovan
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Revisiting historical beech and oak forests in Indiana using a GIS method to recover information from bar charts [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Historical GIS involves applying GIS to historical research. Using a unique method, I recovered historical tree survey information stored in bar chart figures of a 1956 publication. I converted PDF files to TIF files, which is a format for a GIS layer. I
Brice Hanberry
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, 2022 The historical GIS is, without any doubt, a powerful means of communication of historical phenomena for the public and also of collecting georeferenceable historical source through crowdsourcing activities, but the complexity of the data model underlying a GIS can also distance the public from understanding the complexity of the phenomena themselves ...
Paolo Mogorovich, Enrica Salvatori
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GeoHumanities@SIGSPATIAL, 2023 This paper describes the iterative process of conflating historical population statistics for the medieval and early modern Low Countries. This process improves the quality of analyses of the data by adding fine-grained geospatial definitions to the ...
Rombert J. Stapel
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Scenic Railway Mapping: An Analysis of Spatial Patterns in France Based on Historical GIS
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2022 Scenic railway refers to the trains that operate for tourism purposes, which are mainly maintained for facilitating leisure activities, scenic tours, and heritage experiences. As both an extension of railway heritage and an important redevelopment method,
Guiye Lin, Luo Xiang, Kun Sang
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Историческая информатика, 2021 The article describes technological aspects of digital historical map creation taking as an example the 1891–1916 Trans-Siberian Railroad map. The author faced two tasks. On the one hand, he wanted to create a historical GIS map in shapefile format; on
T. Valetov
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Umanistica Digitale, 2023 This paper focuses on the reconstruction of the social and economic conditions of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the mid eighteen thirties on the basis of recent geohistorical information.
Massimiliano Grava +1 more
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