Assessment of the visual impact made on the landscape by new buildings: a methodology for site selection

Sustainable management of rural landscapes: application of new routines implemented on GIS for modelling visual relationships

“…It can be calculated by the computer tracing visual lines from each cell of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to a model of the building (details in Hernández et al, 2004a). The results are stored in form of raster coverage of building visibility data.…”

“…There are five possibilities: open (open spaces), closed, focussed (the building is the centre of attention), filtering (by the vegetation) and singularity (in high places). Buildings with open and filtering scenic compositions will be selected (Hernández et al, 2004a).…”

Evaluación de una aplicación web con participación pública en la planificación espacial y toma de decisiones para la integración de construcciones rurales

“…Desde el punto de vista de la ordenación del territorio, la gran mayoría de las partes involucradas poseen diferentes orígenes, intereses, grados de autoridad en el proceso de toma de decisiones o distintas interpretaciones de los problemas, y deben organizarse para alcanzar soluciones factibles consensuadas por la comunidad, ya que las soluciones así alcanzadas tienden a ser razonables, realistas y sostenibles (20). La modelización espacial permite el análisis de grandes volúmenes de datos espaciales a través de un sistema de información geográfica (SIG), ya que permite dar una expresión geográfica de las políticas económicas, sociales, culturales y ecológicas (21) (22) (23) (24) (25). Por lo tanto, un proceso de colaboración es la manera correcta con la que la conciliación de los enfoques individuales y la toma de decisiones puede satisfacer a la mayoría o a todos los participantes (1) (26).…”

Visual Impact Assessment of Human Interventions on the Landscape: The case of Wind Farms and Solar Power Plants

“…Researchers have started to search for additional relationships between observer preferences and different types of land-use or landtopography [108,109], as well as man-made structures [110,111]. For example, Arriaza et al [108] found that the perceived visual quality increases, in decreasing order of importance, with the degree of wilderness of the landscape, the presence of man-made elements, the percentage of plant cover, the amount of water, the presence of mountains and the colour contrast.…”

“…These use different tools to represent landscape off-site, such as slides, photographs, videos or more recently, Geographical Information Systems (GIS). While the first tool has been shown to be the less valid one [155], the remaining options provide equally reliable information and valid results (Photographs: [64,[156][157][158], Videos: [93,155,159,160], 3D Computerised assessment: [161][162][163] , GIS: [110,[164][165][166][167][168], or Coupling 3D visualisation systems with GIS technology [169]). However, photographic representation predominates in landscape analysis because it is less time-consuming, it requires lower levels of expertise, and information can be easily extracted from the pictures [155].…”