Holistic aspects of suburban landscapes: visual image interpretation and landscape metrics

Antrop, Marc; Eetvelde, Veerle Van

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(00)00079-7

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“…With the afforestation of a new 229 ha of non-forested land, the level of afforestation is increased by 1.1%, reaching 13.6% of the entire area, which is above the average for the Belgrade metropolitan area (11.2%), but still well below the level of afforestation in the Republic of Serbia as a whole, which is 30.6%. At the same time, the areas with a greater degree of connectivity are increased by 8.72%, which represents a valuable result, not just from the point of view of the achieved services to biodiversity supporting ecosystem services but from the point of view of the stability of the landscape as a whole (Antrop & Van Eetvelde 2000, Ahern 2013). …”

Section: Iforest -Biogeosciences and Forestrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Today, more than 80% of the European population lives in cities, which has led to a spatial expansion of cities that is four times greater than the expansion of the population (Poelmans & Van Rompaey 2009, Prokop et al 2011, Tobias 2013. These processes are changing the urban landscape pattern, as can be seen in the homogenisation of the landscape structure (a dramatic expansion of built-up areas and sealed soil - Zonneveld 1995, Rudnick et al 2012) and the functional disintegration of urban landscapes (Antrop & Van Eetvelde 2000). These changes are leading to a loss of landscape connectivity and a consequent decline in the level of landscape stability.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

Vasiljevic¹,

Radić²,

Gavrilović³

et al. 2018

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The beginning of the 21 st century has witnessed a growth in our understanding of the importance of planning urban landscapes in the context of urban population growth and unpredictable climatic conditions. In the search for responses to the challenges set by the development of contemporary urban landscapes, researchers have offered solutions based on the concept of sustainable and resilient cities, whose spatial development would be based on an interdisciplinary approach to strategy development: biodiversity, urban ecological networks and connectivity, multifunctionality and modularity. Although the concepts of a green infrastructure, in their spatial and functional dimensions, allow the application of such strategies, there are still problems when it comes to implementation and measuring the results achieved. At the same time, there is a growing discussion of the important role played by urban forestry in the context of the collaborative planning of urban landscapes and the application of the ideas of a green infrastructure. The key question is: what are the modalities of application of the concept of green infrastructure in the process of planning the development of the modern city and how can the resulting benefits be evaluated? With the modalities of application of the concept of green infrastructure in mind, we discuss its multi-scale and multifunctional dimensions as applied in the case of Serbia. The realisation of the green infrastructure concept is presented through the example of the Urban Forest Management Plan for the City of Belgrade -Mladenovac Municipality. The results of using the spatial-ecological approach in creating the plan and establishing connectivity as a new aim in forest management planning show that the implementation of the green infrastructure concept, and the achieved multifunctional ecosystem values, can be presented on the basis of the parameters of landscape metrics. In light of the new urban world, future research should focus on the application of the landscape ecological approach of the green infrastructure concept in collaborative planning at the urban landscape scale, which allows the creation of ecosystem services and benefits to human wellbeing.

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Section: Iforest -Biogeosciences and Forestrymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

Vasiljevic¹,

Radić²,

Gavrilović³

et al. 2018

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“…For the irrigation function, we measured I_IRR [0,1] (1) inside a 50 m radius buffer to find links with canal systems (Figure 4). The I_RECR has values higher than other indices.…”

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A minimum indicator set for assessing fontanili (lowland springs) of the Lombardy Region in Italy

Fumagalli

Senes

Ferrario

et al. 2017

European Countryside

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This paper reports on the issue of fontanili assessment. A fontanile is a lowland spring, excavated by humans for the use of underground water for irrigation. From the XII century on, fontanili have been dug to extend water availability throughout the year and increase agricultural land use in the lowlands of Northern Italy. Because water of the fontanile stays at temperature without great changes throughout the year (between 8 and 15°C), this environment is host to a vast variety of flora and fauna and has ecological and landscaping value. Because these springs are typical and unique landscape features of Northern Italy, there is not an international background on assessing methods of fontanili functions inside the countryside. The first goal has been to define a set of simple and consolidated indicators to evaluate watering, ecological and recreational function of 1160 fontanili of the Lombardy Region. The second one has been to identify homogenous areas with groups of fontanili in close proximity and with similar indicator values using interpolation tools. This classification can be used by Regional Administration to assign money to recover and maintain fontanili. The most important areas will be protected by regional and local planning instruments.Keywords: Fontanile, low land spring, functional assessment Abstract: Obiettivo dello studio sono l'analisi, la valutazione e la classificazione dei fontanili. Il fontanile è una presa d'acqua nella falda acquifera non affiorante creata dall'uomo per far risalire e utilizzare a scopo irriguo le acque sotterranee tipica della Pianura Padana del nord Italia e della Regione Lombardia in particolare. A partire dai secoli XI e XII i fontanili sono stati un elemento fondamentale per lo sviluppo dell'agricoltura lombarda. Nei secoli successivi mezzi di approvvigionamento idrico alternativi hanno spesso sostituito l'impiego dell'acqua dei fontanili che tuttavia mantengono ancora la loro funzione irrigua. Poiché le acque dei fontanili si mantengono durante l'anno in un intervallo di temperatura compreso tra 8 e 15°C, costituiscono un ecosistema ricco di specie animali e vegetali e svolgono un ruolo di particolare importanza anche dal punto di vista ecologico e paesaggistico. Dal momento che questa risorsa rappresenta un elemento unico caratterizzante la pianura padana non esiste una letteratura internazionale relativa a metodologie di valutazione funzionale dei fontanili. Il primo obiettivo è stato quello di individuare una serie di indicatori per valutare le funzioni idriche, ecologiche e ricreative dei 1160 fontanili della Regione Lombardia. Il secondo obiettivo è stato quello di individuare aree omogenee per caratteristiche simili dei fontanili stessi, utilizzano metodi interpolazione in ambiente GIS. E' stata elaborata una prima proposta per la definizione di una metodologia per la classificazione e misurazione del biotopo fontanile che potrà essere utilizzata dalla Regione Lombardia per l'assegnazione di finanziamenti mirati al recupero e alla conservazione d...

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“…The challenging part is the implementation and combination of Gestalt rules and the emulation of the human brain for automated image interpretation. Antrop and Van Eetvelde (2000) analyzed landscape metrics in suburban areas with regards to holistic characteristics. The aim of the project described in this paper is the extraction of urban LU-categories using holistic land cover properties for graph generation and analysis.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Graph-Based Urban Land Use Mapping From High Resolution Satellite Images

Walde

Hese

Berger

et al. 2012

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Due to the dynamic character of urban land use (e.g. urban sprawl) there is a demand for frequent updates for monitoring, modeling, and controlling purposes. Urban land use is an added value that can be indirectly derived with the help of various properties of land cover classes that describe a certain area and create a distinguishable structure. The goal of this project is to extract land use (LU) classes out of a structure of land cover (LC) classes from high resolution Quickbird data and additional LiDAR building height models. The study area is Rostock, a German city with more than 200.000 inhabitants. To model the properties of urban land use a graph based approach is adapted from other disciplines (industrial image processing, medicine, informatics). A graph consists of nodes and edges while nodes describe the land cover and edges define the relationship of neighboring objects. To calculate the adjacency that describes which nodes are combined with an edge several distance ranges and building height properties are tested. Furthermore the information value of planar versus non-planar graph types is analyzed. After creating the graphs specific indices are computed that evaluate how compact or connected the graphs are. In this work several graph indices are explained and applied to training areas. Results show that the distance of buildings and building height are reliable indicators for LU-categories. The separability of LU-classes improves when properties of land cover classes and graph indices are combined to a LU-signature. KURZFASSUNG:Aufgrund des dynamischen Charakters von Städten (Suburbanisierung/Zersiedelung) entsteht ein Bedarf an regelmäßiger Aktualisierung urbaner Landnutzungsdaten für Modellierungs-,Überwachungs-und Kontrollzwecke. Urbane Landnutzung stellt einen Mehrwert dar, der mit Hilfe von spezifischen Eigenschaften von Landbedeckungsklassen, die ein bestimmtes Gebiet beschreiben und eine erkennbare Struktur bilden, indirekt abgeleitet werden kann. Das Ziel des Projektes ist die Extraktion städtischer Landnutzungstypen aus Landbedeckungsklassen, die aus hochaufgelösten optischen Quickbird-Satellitendaten und einem LiDAR-Oberflächenmodell abgeleitet wurden. Das Untersuchungsgebiet Rostock ist eine deutsche Stadt mit mehr als 200.000 Einwohnern. Um die Eigenschaften der Stadtstrukturen zu modellieren wurde ein graphenbasierter Ansatz, der bereits in anderen Wissenschaftszweigen (industrielle Bildverarbeitung, Medizin, Informatik) eingesetzt wird, adaptiert. Ein Graph besteht aus Knoten, die die Landbedeckung repräsentieren, und Kanten, die die Eigenschaften zu benachbarten Objekten definieren. Um die Adjazenzmatrix zu berechnen, die beschreibt welche Knoten und Kanten miteinander verbunden sind, wurden verschiedene Distanzbereiche und Höhenangaben getestet. Darüber hinaus wurde der Informationswert planarer und nicht-planarer Graphen analysiert. Nach der Graphenbildung wurden spezifische Indikatoren berechnet, die beschreiben wie kompakt oder zusammenhängend der Graph ist. In diesem P...

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Holistic aspects of suburban landscapes: visual image interpretation and landscape metrics

Cited by 245 publications

References 20 publications

The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

A minimum indicator set for assessing fontanili (lowland springs) of the Lombardy Region in Italy

Graph-Based Urban Land Use Mapping From High Resolution Satellite Images

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