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Reconstructing the Little Ice Age extent of Langfjordjøkelen, Arctic mainland Norway, as a baseline for assessing centennial-scale icefield recession

Polar Research, 2020
Current warming in the Arctic is occurring at a rate two to three times higher than that of the rest of the world, leading to rapid glacier wastage. In Arctic mainland Norway, the plateau icefield Langfjordjøkelen has experienced the greatest mass loss ...
Paul Weber, Harold Lovell, Liss M. Andreassen, Clare M. Boston   +3 more
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Formation of Gully Erosion in the Myjava Region

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering, 2019
The article deals with the problems of the occurrence and formation of gully erosion in the Myjava catchment. Gully erosion is a significant problem in that region of Slovakia. Together with this type of soil erosion, muddy floods, waste ground, economic
Nosko Radovan, Maliariková Marcela, Brziak Adam, Kubáň Martin   +3 more
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Historical maps as a neglected issue in history education. Students and textbooks representations of territorial changes of Spain and Argentina

Frontiers in Education
In the last years, history education has become a highly developed field, which is receiving considerable attention not only from educators but also from historians, philosophers of history, and social scientists in general.
Cristian Parellada, María Rodríguez-Moneo, Mario Carretero   +2 more
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Automatic Detection of Road Types From the Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary Historical Map Series With Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

IEEE Access, 2021
With the increased amount of digitized historical documents, information extraction from them gains pace. Historical maps contain valuable information about historical, geographical and economic aspects of an era.
Yekta Said Can, Petrus Johannes Gerrits, M. Erdem Kabadayi   +2 more
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Semantic segmentation of historical maps using Self-Constructing Graph Convolutional Networks

Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Historical maps represent an invaluable memory which should be preserved. Such kind of maps are, however, mostly scanned and stored as raster graphics which do not contain semantic information in a machine-readable form.
Lukas Arzoumanidis, J. Knechtel, J. Haunert, Youness Dehbi   +3 more
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Image Processing Techniques for Analysis of Satellite Images for Historical Maps Classification—An Overview

Applied Sciences, 2020
Historical maps classification has become an important application in today’s scenario of everchanging land boundaries. Historical map changes include the change in boundaries of cities/states, vegetation regions, water bodies and so forth.
A. Asokan, J. Anitha, M. Ciobanu, A. Gabor, A. Náaji, D. Hemanth   +5 more
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Unknown Europe: The mapping of the Northern countries by Olaus Magnus in 1539

Belgeo, 2008
Olaus Magnus, a highly educated Swedish priest and scholar, published his geographically and ethnographically remarkable map of the Northern countries, the Carta marina, in Venice in 1539.
Leena Miekkavaara
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Visual Exposure of Rock Outcrops in the Context of a Forest Disease Outbreak Simulation Based on a Canopy Height Model and Spectral Information Acquired by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
This research was focused on the study of visual exposure evolution in the locality of the Drátenická skála nature monument (in the Czech Republic) and the surrounding forest complex in terms of history and through modelling for further possible stand ...
Marie Balková, Aleš Bajer, Zdeněk Patočka, Tomáš Mikita   +3 more
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Analysis of texture and connected-component contours for the automatic identification of writers [PDF]

, 2005
Recent advances in "off-line" writer identification allow for new applications in handwritten text retrieval from archives of scanned historical documents.
Bulacu, M., Franke, K., Schomaker, L.
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From Historical Maps to LiDAR Data-Enhancing Landscape Ecological Research of Cultural Landscape Using Modern Remote Sensing Data Illustrated with Examples from Slovak Traditional Heritage Landscapes

Land
The study of cultural landscapes has a tradition stretching back several decades. During this time, methods have been developed based on the geographical data and technological capabilities available.
Branislav Olah, Igor Gallay, Martina Slámová, Tomáš Lepeška, Zuzana Gallayová, Veronika Paulíková   +5 more
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