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Automatic Road Extraction from Historical Maps Using Deep Learning Techniques: A Regional Case Study of Turkey in a German World War II Map

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
Scanned historical maps are available from different sources in various scales and contents. Automatic geographical feature extraction from these historical maps is an essential task to derive valuable spatial information on the characteristics and ...
Burak Ekim, Elif Sertel, M. Erdem Kabadayı   +2 more
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History and Archaeology in Discourse on the Dernberg–Reconstructing the Historical Landscape of a Medieval Motte-and-Bailey Castle and Deserted Village

Heritage, 2022
Investigating deserted medieval castles and villages in remote rural areas paired with a scarcity of meaningful written sources is a challenging task that can be significantly enhanced by the use of non-invasive archaeological prospection methods ...
Roland Filzwieser, David Ruß, Matthias Kucera, Michael Doneus, Gerhard Hasenhündl, Geert J. Verhoeven, Georg Zotti, Andreas Lenzhofer, Gerhard Stüttler, Michał Pisz, Wolfgang Neubauer   +10 more
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Exploring the Effect of Minimum Magnitude on California Seismic Hazard Maps

Seismica, 2023
A recent topic of interest is the performance of probabilistic seismic hazard maps relative to historical shaking datasets. Maps developed for different countries appear to overpredict shaking relative to historical shaking datasets.
Molly Gallahue, Leah Salditch, Madeleine Lucas, James Neely, Seth Stein, Norman Abrahamson, Susan Hough   +6 more
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Analysis of the Language of the Historical Maps of Abruzzo from 1550 to 1800. Between the Objective Portrayal and the Reading of Unconventional Codes

Proceedings, 2017
The research explores some peculiar aspects of the study of the Abruzzo cartography from the middle of the sixteenth century up to the nineteenth century. In particular, it is analyzed the geographical language on one hand, and the illustrative apparatus
Alessia Maiolatesi
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Long-Term Dynamics of Land Use in the Romanian Plain—The Central Bărăgan, Romania

Agriculture, 2021
Changes in land use and agricultural landscapes are primarily the result of socio-political and economic changes. This research is based on the analysis of old maps, pertaining to different historical periods, aiming to capture the dynamics of the ...
Adriana Bianca Ovreiu, Iulian Andrei Bărsoianu, Constantin Nistor, Alexandru Nedelea, Laura Comănescu   +4 more
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Re-Discovering Ancient Landscapes: Archaeological Survey of Mound Features from Historical Maps in Northwest India and Implications for Investigating the Large-Scale Distribution of Cultural Heritage Sites in South Asia

Remote Sensing, 2019
Incomplete datasets curtail the ability of archaeologists to investigate ancient landscapes, and there are archaeological sites whose locations remain unknown in many parts of the world.
Adam S. Green, Hector A. Orengo, Aftab Alam, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Lillian M. Green, Francesc Conesa, Amit Ranjan, Ravindra N. Singh, Cameron A. Petrie   +8 more
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Hundred-year spatial trajectory of lake coverage changes in response to human activities over Wuhan

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Environmental changes induced by ongoing anthropogenic activities have caused severe lake degradation. Because of the lack of long-term records, few studies have investigated the change in Wuhan lakes, and the effect of human activities on regional lake ...
Jialin Wang, Xiaobin Cai, Fang Chen, Zhan Zhang, Yufang Zhang, Kun Sun, Tianhao Zhang, Xiaoling Chen   +7 more
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Assessment of Shoreline Transformation Rates and Landslide Monitoring on the Bank of Kuibyshev Reservoir (Russia) Using Multi-Source Data

Remote Sensing, 2021
This study focuses on the Kuibyshev reservoir (Volga River basin, Russia)—the largest in Eurasia and the third in the world by area (6150 km2). The objective of this paper is to quantitatively assess the dynamics of reservoir bank landslides and ...
Oleg Yermolaev, Bulat Usmanov, Artur Gafurov, Jean Poesen, Evgeniya Vedeneeva, Fedor Lisetskii, Ionut Cristi Nicu   +6 more
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Seismic vulnerability maps of Timisoara historical center based on fragility curves [PDF]

, 2016
The seismic vulnerability assessment on a territorial scale requires the application of simplified procedures. Data collection is usually carried out by adopting external inspections; for this reason the knowledge gained for the considered buildings is ...
DA PORTO, Francesca, Marson, Claudia, Mo\u15foarc\u103, M., Modena, Claudio, Munari, Marco, Roverato, M., Taffarel, Sabrina, Valotto, Claudia   +7 more
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Possible Projection of the First Military Survey of the Habsburg Empire in Lower Austria and Hungary (Late 18th Century)—An Improvement in Fitting Historical Topographic Maps to Modern Cartographic Systems

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023
Map mosaics of the First Military Survey showing Lower Austria and Hungary (two separate zones and coordinate systems of 1:28,800 survey sections) were georeferenced. Compared to the previous fitting carried out in the framework of the publicly available
Gábor Timár
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