In the first part of the analysis we tried to define places in Europe with higher diversity according to different natural landscape types or landscape regions. In order to get such “hotspots” four geographical classifications of Europe were analyzed. At first maps of variety of landscapes were defined based on each classification that we took into account. This step was done by calculating a number of different unique natural landscape types or regions in radius of 50 km for each cell. Each map of variety of landscapes was then weighted (cell values were divided by a number of all unique types or regions in a division). At the final stage of this part all the maps were synthesized (averaged) into one map showing landscape diversity for the Europe. After that step we defined Europe's landscape hotspots and pointed out the most naturally heterogeneous countries. We found that among all of the European countries, Slovenia has the highest average landscape diversity. Such result gives the country some advantages in the field of tourism based on the natural values of landscape. One of the benefits of having high landscape diversity is making it possible to advertise Slovenia as a tourist destination, offering a "pan-European experience."
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Based on digital data on relief, rock, and vegetation, the most significant elements of the internal structure of Slovenian landscapes and at the same time of their external appearance, a geographic information system and verification in the field were used to create several natural landscape typologies of Slovenia with a varying number of types. The most generalized typology is based on the spatial overlap of four relief, seven lithological, and seven vegetation units. It has twenty-four landscape types: four flat, eleven low hilly, six hilly, and three mountainous types.
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The chapter presents a method for quantitative evaluation of a landscape typology. The method was tested for natural landscape typology of Slovenia. Based on the existing manually defined typology of Slovenia (made in 1998), several modeled natural landscape typologies were produced using different learning samples, data layers and geo-information tools. Modeled typologies were then compared to the original typology. By comparing the models and the original, it was possible to evaluate how manually defined landscape typology can be repeated by quantitative methods. By overlapping several modeled typologies produced with different methods, areas were identified that proved to be correctly classified, and areas that should be reconsidered.
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