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Landscape Analysis and Planning pp 59–79Cite as

Modelling as a Method for Evaluating Natural Landscape Typology: The Case of Slovenia

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Modern technology and data make it possible to use various geo-information tools to mitigate certain problems in determining or verifying natural landscape classifications, especially in connection with objectivity and transparency. This chapter presents quantitative evaluation of landscape typology based on the natural landscape typology of Slovenia from 1998. Based on this existing manually outlined typology of Slovenia, several modelled natural landscape typologies were produced using four selected data layers (elevation, slope, permeability and precipitation regime) and various geo-information tools. Modelled typologies were developed based on the rules (models) determined with learning samples. The next step analyzed the match of the modelled and reference natural landscape typologies and how successfully the reference typology can be reproduced using numerical models. By comparing the models and the original, it was also possible to establish the locations of the types that were classified (confirmed) the same by different models and those that were not confirmed by any model. By overlapping several modelled typologies produced with different methods, areas were identified that proved to be well classified, and areas that should be checked in terms of their classification into a separate, specific type. The conclusion proposes a general procedure for evaluating landscape classification.

Keywords

  • Natural landscape types
  • Typology
  • Geographical information systems
  • Supervised classification
  • Geography
  • Slovenia

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Ciglič, R., Perko, D. (2015). Modelling as a Method for Evaluating Natural Landscape Typology: The Case of Slovenia. In: Luc, M., Somorowska, U., Szmańda, J. (eds) Landscape Analysis and Planning. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13527-4_4

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