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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

open access: yesProceedings, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Long-Term Dynamics of Land Use in the Romanian Plain—The Central Bărăgan, Romania

open access: yesAgriculture, 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRemote 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   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hundred-year spatial trajectory of lake coverage changes in response to human activities over Wuhan

open access: yesEnvironmental 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   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of Shoreline Transformation Rates and Landslide Monitoring on the Bank of Kuibyshev Reservoir (Russia) Using Multi-Source Data

open access: yesRemote 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A NOVEL DATA AUGMENTATION METHOD TO ENHANCE THE TRAINING DATASET FOR ROAD EXTRACTION FROM SWISS HISTORICAL MAPS

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022
. Long-term retrospective road data are required for various analyses (e.g., investigation of urban sprawl, analysis of road network evolution). Yet, it is challenging to extract roads from scanned historical maps due to their dissatisfying quality ...
C. Jiao, M. Heitzler, L. Hurni
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

open access: yesISPRS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial snow water equivalent estimation for mountainous areas using wireless-sensor networks and remote-sensing products [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We developed an approach to estimate snow water equivalent (SWE) through interpolation of spatially representative point measurements using a k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) algorithm and historical spatial SWE data.
Bales, RC   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Automated Extraction of Labels from Large-Scale Historical Maps

open access: yesAGILE Conf., 2021
. Historical maps are frequently neither readable, searchable nor analyzable by machines due to lacking databases or ancillary information about their content.
I. Schlegel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Aligning geographic entities from historical maps for building knowledge graphs [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2020
Historical maps contain rich geographic information about the past of a region. They are sometimes the only source of information before the availability of digital maps.
Kai Sun   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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