A Renewed Approach to the ABC Landscape Assessment Method: An Application to Muntanyes d’Ordal, Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Giné, David Serrano i

doi:10.3097/lo.201856

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“…The proposed procedure deliberately concentrated on nature-based criteria and provided less details concerning communication with stakeholders and authorities since these issues is a constant focus in literature (Brandt et al 2000, Selman 2006, Sayer et al 2013, Carlsson et al 2017, Trovato and Ali 2019. Unlike most planning methodologies (Dramstad et al 1996, Izakovičova 2006, Özyavuz 2012, Turner and Gardner 2015, Serrano Gine 2018, Hersperger et al 2020 to make planning proposal we applied several theoretical models of landscape pattern depending on the objective.…”

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Context-Based Spatial Decisions in Landscape-Ecological Planning

Хорошев

2021

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ContextThe vital challenge for the context-based landscape planning is integrating assessments of for both intrinsic properties of a unit and its value in a broad spatial context.ObjectivesThe purpose is to develop the procedure which provides context-based criteria at relevant scales, considers matter flows and dynamic events.MethodsThe methodology involves identification of landscape patterns, revealing mechanisms of radial and lateral relationships, considering changes of landscape patterns, and revealing functioning mechanisms causing directed changes. The proposals proceed from multiplicity of patterns and integrate knowledge of processes in biophysical units, catenas, basins, and matrix elements. The plan was elaborated for the taiga landscape in northern European Russia.ResultsDevelopment of ecological network is aimed at increase of forest cover in basins up to 35% to enhance runoff regulation, prevent soil erosion, and stabilize the riparian biocorridor. The highest significance was assigned to the units that have intrinsic ecological values and contribute to lateral transportation of matter over vast areas. Width of buffer strips intercepting input of pollutants to rivers was adapted to proportions of elements and neighborhoods in catenas. Outside the ecological network, we identified priorities for the multifunctional use of units based on the assessment of drainage conditions, soil quality, and risk of erosion. ConclusionsThe procedure takes into consideration landscape hierarchy and multiplicity of spatial patterns. Integrating multiple models is in compliance with the systemic essence of a landscape ensuring understanding of geodiversity, lateral connections, and the emergent effects that ensure the landscape services for society.

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Context-Based Spatial Decisions in Landscape-Ecological Planning

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2021

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“…In the last years of the twentieth century, some of the landscape evolution studies carried out were characterised by their regional and supraregional geographical scope, type T0 and T1 of LTP (Gómez -Zotano et al 2018), such as those elaborated by Plan Blue (Benoit et al 2001) and the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) (UNEP / MAP 2016). More recently, some analyses at smaller scales, subregional and supralocal, type T2 and T3 of LTP, have been carried out related to other sectors of the Mediterranean region, such as those focused on rural areas of the Spanish and Italian mountain regions (Agnoletti et al 2015;Gómez -Zotano et al2018;Serrano, 2018;Statuto etal. 2016;Tortora et al 2015).…”

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Landscape Dynamics in Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Castelló de la Plana in the Last Hundred Years

Belda-Carrasco¹,

García

Pascual-Aguilar

2019

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The littoral areas of the Mediterranean coastline have undergone a significant transformation due to their historical and intense human occupation. The result has been an evolution of different cultural landscape configurations, ranging from those with a marked agrarian character to artificial ones derived from the process of urbanisation and metropolitan growth. The objective of this paper is to define a model to characterise landscape types and units that explains the landscape dynamics (1910-2015) in Mediterranean coastal spaces at local scale, taking as study area the municipality and surroundings of Castelló de la Plana, in Spain. The aim is to identify the way in which society has appropriated and occupied this space. This research seeks to analyse landscape metrics that link dynamics in both space and time to provide a comprehensive image of landscape dynamics. The methodological procedure is based on the diachronic study of the landscape to discern a pattern of change in the cultural landscape over time and space that allows us to explain the current situation of the landscape and its relationship with urbanisation and urban planning.

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“…A chorologic typology is a classification of geographic phenomena that represents causal relationships among them [57,58]. Examples of chorologic typologies combining parametric landscape typologies and holistic landscape chorologies have been documented for landscape assessments [59]. Causality can be determined regionally, based on the evidential reasoning from existing landscape ecological knowledge and visual and parametric associations among physiognomic features from available reference data or maps to colourimetric indicators in multispectral false colour images using deductive techniques-such as a process of elimination (for example [60]).…”

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High Resolution Forest Masking for Seasonal Monitoring with a Regionalized and Colourimetrically Assisted Chorologic Typology

Aravena¹,

Lyons²,

Keith³

2023

Remote Sensing

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Comparisons of recent global forest products at higher resolutions that are only available annually have shown major disagreements among forested areas in highly fragmented landscapes. A holistic reductionist framework and colourimetry were applied to create a chorologic typology of environmental indicators to map forest extent with an emphasis on large-scale performance, interpretability/communication, and spatial–temporal scalability. Interpretation keys were created to identify forest and non-forest features, and a set of candidate tree cover indices were developed and compared with a decision matrix of prescribed criteria. The candidate indices were intentionally limited to those applying only the visible and NIR bands to obtain the highest possible resolution and be compatible with commonly available multispectral satellites and higher resolution sensors, including aerial and potentially UAV/drone sensors. A new High-Resolution Tree Cover Index (HRTCI) in combination with the Green band was selected as the best index based on scores from the decision matrix. To further improve the performance of the indices, the chorologic typology included two insolation indices, a water index and a NIR surface saturation index, to exclude any remaining spectrally similar but unrelated land cover features such as agriculture, water, and built-up features using a process of elimination. The approach was applied to the four seasons across a wide range of ecosystems in south-eastern Australia, with and without regionalisation, to identify which season produces the most accurate results for each ecoregion and to assess the potential for mitigating the spatial–temporal scaling effects of the Modifiable Spatio-Temporal Unit Problem. Autumn was found to be the most effective season, yielding overall accuracies of 94.19% for the full extent, 95.79% for the temperate zone, and 95.71% for the arid zone. It produced the greatest spatial agreement between two recognised global products, the GEDI forest heights extent and the ESA WorldCover Tree cover class. The performance, transparency, and scalability of the approach should provide the basis for a framework for globally relatable forest monitoring.

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A Renewed Approach to the ABC Landscape Assessment Method: An Application to Muntanyes d’Ordal, Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Context-Based Spatial Decisions in Landscape-Ecological Planning

Context-Based Spatial Decisions in Landscape-Ecological Planning

Landscape Dynamics in Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Castelló de la Plana in the Last Hundred Years

High Resolution Forest Masking for Seasonal Monitoring with a Regionalized and Colourimetrically Assisted Chorologic Typology

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