Classification and Application of Digital Technologies in Landscape Heritage Protection

Abstract

The application of digital technology in the field of landscape architecture heritage protection is becoming more and more mature and complex. How to select and apply technology for the corresponding landscape architecture heritage objects has become a common problem in the direction of landscape architecture heritage protection. Taking the literature on “landscape architecture heritage protection” published in CNKI and the Web of Science Database in the last 10 years (2012–2021) as the research object, we clarify the objects of landscape architecture heritage protection and their digital technology and summarize three types of digital technologies in the field of landscape architecture heritage protection: collection and acquisition technology, storage and management technology, and dissemination and sharing technology. Secondly, the main application objects and digital methods of each technology are described by classification. Thirdly, the main application methods in the field of landscape architecture heritage protection are summarized, e.g., repair recovery and risk monitoring. Accordingly, the digital development process of landscape architecture heritage protection in recent years is discussed, and there are three main stages, data precision, information systematization, and smart management. Future studies should pay more attention to the co-building and sharing of heritage information and to the common protection of heritage entities and cultural emotions. Discussion on the classification and application of digital technology based on landscape architecture heritage protection will help to present a clear context for the research and practice of digital technology in the field of landscape architecture heritage protection and contribute to implementing the protection and management of landscape architecture heritage more pertinently and efficiently.

Potential of the Digital Information Platform Applied in Promotion of Rural Landscape in China: From Preliminary Practices to Framework Conception

“…Since the 1990s, digital technology has been applied in the field of protecting cultural landscapes [5], and fruitful outcomes are yielded by the digitization of the cultural heritage. With regard to the digital acquisition and storage of cultural landscapes, the digital information platforms (DIP (the digital information platform is hereinafter referred to as DIP)) are typical [6], such as the Digitization of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Virtual Forbidden City. However, while most of the research tasks focus on tangible cultural heritage, such as buildings and sites, the digital conservation of rural cultural landscape heritage, a living heritage that integrates elements of both tangible and intangible cultural landscapes and contains multiple attributes, such as natural, cultural and spiritual, is rarely studied.…”