On the applicability of the visual impact assessment OAI SPP tool to photovoltaic plants

Chiabrando, Roberto; Fabrizio, Enrico; Garnero, Gabriele

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2010.09.030

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“…In many procedures for the visual impact assessment (e.g. Torres-Sibille, 2009;Chiabrando et al, 2011) this aspect is taken into account computing the colour difference -sometimes erroneously called contrast -expressed as the Euclidean distance between the two points in the CIELAB colour space. In visibility studies other authors calculates the contrast as the difference between the average lightness of the object and the background object (e.g.…”

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The assessment of the visual perception in viewshed analysis for the landscape settings

Fabrizio¹,

Garnero²

2013

J Agricult Engineer

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Visibility studies for rural and forest landscape are well established and conducted by means of standard GIS tools that compute the viewshed (a binary representation of the visibility of a location from a certain viewpoint) and cumulative viewsheds (integer representations of the visibility of a location from more viewpoints obtained with raster algebra). However, in order to go beyond the sole geometric information if a cell is visible or not, some authors have introduced various concepts that are based on the visual magnitude or visual exposure. These concepts also take into account the target magnitude, the atmospheric extinction, the colour difference to the background and the visual acuity. These calculations may be complex, extremely time consuming and not affordable with standard GIS tools, because they require specific programming tools. Besides, depending on the application, the factor that affects the visibility may be the distance, the atmospheric extinction, the contrast, etc. In this work, we concentrate on the problem of the calculation of the landscape sensitivity, which defines the degree to which a given landscape is potentially affected by possible changes by means of viewsheds analyses. An example in rural settings is presented in order to demonstrate the problems that arise in real applications and the possible solutions.

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The assessment of the visual perception in viewshed analysis for the landscape settings

Fabrizio¹,

Garnero²

2013

J Agricult Engineer

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“…They can be employed in several way in order to deepen the comprehension of an area investigated by extracting morphometric parameters or to perform complex analyzes on the DTM alone or by combining it with other data sources with modeling purposes (Godone and Garnero, 2013;Pirotti et al, 2012;Chiabrando et al,. 2011) (Figure 2).…”

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Geomatics and virtual tourism

Minucciani¹,

Garnero²

2013

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The most recent technological revolution, concerning web and "ICT", not only changed individual and collective behaviors, but also allowed experiences no possible before: a real time communication, regardless of the distances; an extended access to disjointed data and sources; the shift in different realities -missing or entirely imaginary. Nowadays, we can think about a new concept of museum, much more inclusive than "objects container": now the museum involves entire countries, entire ecosystems, entire regions. We can speak of "museum outside of the museum", to extend museum "storytelling" to a regional scale, beyond the walls of the traditional museum. On a regional scale experiments entirely convincing have not yet been carried out, but from this point of view cultural lands can be visited as great open air museums, to find objects, artworks or signs: the whole land is a "collection" to be preserved, to be presented and to be interpreted. Thus the visit allows to elicit outstanding objects, to read into landscapes with different filters. Both the physical and virtual visit seem to be a "tour" (Minucciani and Garnero, 2013). To create a virtual tourism prototypal station, we need several and unconventional geometrical data (shared geographic databases, DTMs, digital orthoimages and angle shots, modeling with spherical cameras, ...), thematic data (related to cultural content) and no conventional input units to move and to observe how and where the observer prefers. Authors report here their experience to carry out a prototypal station, able to relate geomatics references to cultural content and to offer a whole experience, involving users also from the sensory point of view.That's nowadays a specific purpose of new technologies applied to cultural heritage.

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“…Impacts and changes in landscape are likely to occur from the early stages of the construction of systems, being mainly driven by manufacturing and building activities [9,10]. As a result, regardless of the positive implications PV systems have (e.g., cleaner energy production and local level socio-economic development), a large body of literature has been devoted to their negative environmental impacts, covering land use/cover [1,13], biodiversity [14,15], human health [16], or summaries of all of the above [2,9,10,14,15,17,18]; visual pollution [9,19,20]; and landscape impacts of photovoltaic projects [21].…”

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Impacts of Photovoltaic Farms on the Environment in the Romanian Plain

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Under the European Union (EU) energy efficiency targets that Romania has assumed, increasing the share of solar energy has been one of the main points to be considered. The most important solar energy resources are found in the lowlands and low hills in southern and south-eastern parts of the country. The current paper is focused on the Romanian Plain, which has the best environmental conditions to support the development of photovoltaic (PV) farms. One hundred and ten PV farms have been identified and mapped which cover a total area of 1393 hectares. Although it provides a clean and sustainable energy source, the related environmental implications of PV farms could be either positive or negative. In this study, some of the main categories of impacts have been selected for identification and analysis of their environmental consequences. Several indicators have been computed: the share of PV farms from the main land use/cover categories and main soil types, and the distance of PV farms to forests, water bodies, or protected areas. The overall results of the study reveal the current and potential impacts of PV farms in order to understand the interactions between the environment and the use of renewable energy sources and further support science-based solutions for sustainable development.

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On the applicability of the visual impact assessment OAI SPP tool to photovoltaic plants

Cited by 44 publications

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The assessment of the visual perception in viewshed analysis for the landscape settings

The assessment of the visual perception in viewshed analysis for the landscape settings

Geomatics and virtual tourism

Impacts of Photovoltaic Farms on the Environment in the Romanian Plain

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