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Discovering Forgotten Landscapes

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Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes

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Human activities associated with agriculture and settlement have been a relief-shaping element in landscape history for thousands of years. Different stages of these processes can be visualized using laser-derived Digital Terrain Models (DTM) that revolutionized exploration of landscapes especially in archaeological research. Conventional models support understanding of landscapes general character. For detailed analysis, however, these are too coarse. That is what complex micro-relief visualizations are specialized in. These allow for detailed investigations and documentations of relief features, e.g. historical field systems and their transformation over time. Furthermore, they can be used to automatically detect different types of relief structures, which is the most recent research topic.

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Fabian Meyer-Heß, M. (2020). Discovering Forgotten Landscapes. In: Edler, D., Jenal, C., Kühne, O. (eds) Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes. RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30956-5_3

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