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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
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
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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
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Hundred-year spatial trajectory of lake coverage changes in response to human activities over Wuhan
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
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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
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. 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
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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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Spatial snow water equivalent estimation for mountainous areas using wireless-sensor networks and remote-sensing products [PDF]
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
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Automated Extraction of Labels from Large-Scale Historical Maps
. Historical maps are frequently neither readable, searchable nor analyzable by machines due to lacking databases or ancillary information about their content.
I. Schlegel
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Aligning geographic entities from historical maps for building knowledge graphs [PDF]
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
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