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Historic Landscape Characterisation – Potential Improvements of the Method Using Geospatial Technologies

Historic landscape Characterisation – HLC is a method that identifies historic character types of cultural landscape. The basic purpose of characterisations is management of landscape as heritage. It is a part of cultural resource management sector. HLC is also a part of applied archaeology since the method was conceptualised and deployed by archaeologists. The characterisation is executed in geographic information systems which were implemented in the method the moment GIS software packages became widely available. However, the characterisation is still carried out by manual vectorisation in a GIS. The basis of characterisation is morphological analysis. The archaeologist as interpreter has the main role in the process of characterisation. Hence, the quality of characterisation is interpreter dependent and as such extremely subjective. The development of new geospatial technology enables a fresh view on the application of new methods in HLC. The implementation of new methods may improve characterisation by making it more objective while simultaneously accelerating the process of characterisation. The improvement through previously mentioned two aspects may be achieved through wider use of remote sensing methods, various landscape models, and, finally, the deployment of GEOBIA method.

Historic Landscape Characterisation ; Archaeology ; HLC ; Geospatial technologies ; GEOBIA ; Spatial planning

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