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Using Aerial Photography for Monitoring Cultural Landscapes

Every day we can observe how rapidly the modern way of living, with constant progress and development, is changing our surroundings. Landscapes, natural ones as well as those of cultural character, are changing fast and their efficient preservation and management is a serious challenge. This poster presents a short overview of how these changes are being monitored in the cultural landscape of Stari Grad Plain, on the Croatian island of Hvar. It will show how, through a program of aerial reconnaissance, we can derive information on the current condition of the monument in an active arable landscape. During the last two years, recording changes through systematic aerial surveying has shown to be the most efficient method for their fast detection and, hopefully, it will become a permanent practice in monitoring system for this landscape, as well as an example for the other scheduled landscapes. The second part of this paper will present, on a sample area in the central part of Stari Grad Plain, how aerial photography can also be used to detect changes and modifications that have occurred in this landscape during longer time span. By analyzing historical photographs, we can assess condition of the landscape at different times and conclude how different factors, e.g. land use, affected its structures.

Monitoring, retrograde monitoring, aerial photographs, historical aerial photographs, cultural landscape, Stari Grad Plain

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