The main purpose of this paper was to use quantitative geoinformatical approach for identifying parts of our test area (the country of Slovenia) that can be described as very diverse according to natural landscapes and natural elements. We used different digital raster data of natural elements and landscape classifications and defined landscape diversity and landscape hotspots. We defined diversity for each raster pixel by counting the number of different unique types of landscape elements and types of landscapes in its neighborhood.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 41515565The presentation focuses on general landscape diversity of Europe and especially on landscape diversity inside Slovenia. The main purpose of the first part of the analysis was to identify areas in Europe that can be described as very diverse according to four natural landscape classifications that were published by scientific journals or officially established by European institution. Due to its position at the intersection of the Mediterranean, Alps, Dinaric Alps, and Pannonian Basin, Slovenia is considered as one of the most diverse countries in Europe. Thus in the second part we focused on internal landscape diversity of Slovenia. The presence of landscape hotspots offers numerous advantages (e.g., availability of various natural resources and attractiveness for tourist visits) and also challenges (e.g., transfer of good practices is not as easy as in monotonous landscapes).
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 39970349In this paper we tested landscape classification with geographical information system in an area with very high landscape diversity. In the first part we analyzed the diversity of natural landscape for the area of Slovenia. With several maps of natural elements we defined the most diverse areas in the country. In the second part of the paper we present landscape classification of an area that is partially marked as a hotspot and partially as a coldspot. We tested different computer methods to determine landscape types in order to produce landscape classification map as objective as possible. The selected test area is in the Gorenjska region, NW Slovenia. The most distinctive types there are Alpine mountains and Alpine plains. However, more specific landscape types were recognized.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 40439341The paper presented a methodological framework and intermediate results of the ongoing analysis of landscape diversity in Slovenia. Production of different landscape diversities were tested in three different ways: according to the existing geographical typologies and regionalizations of Slovenia; according to the different classifications of relief, rocks, climate, soils, and vegetation; and according to the several natural landscape elements represented by numeric data layers (e.g. slope, curvature). Each diversity map was defined using quantitative methods.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 38753069In selected 40 landscape hotspots coldspots, we looked for links between landscape diversity and human activities in the space (for example, land use, population density, tourism). Different methods and a combination of methodological approaches (for example, mapping, interviews, topoclimatic analyzes, online research of attractiveness of photos) were used to examine and evaluate the results obtained through the GIS. We looked for differences between different landscape types, and identified the connections between landscape diversity and landscape attractiveness.
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