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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Historical Maps"”.
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Segmentation and scale detection algorithms for automated analysis of digitized historical maps
… problems of automatic segmentation of objects in historical maps, automatic estimation of map scale and the design of a mathematical framework for understanding the uncertainties associated with map scale estimates. The problems are motivated by the lack of accuracy and consistency in the current …
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For an Urban History of Milan, Italy: The Role of GIScience
… Information Science (GIScience). Using historical maps and ancillary data, the spatiality of historical events that interested the city is analyzed, interpreted and explained by means of new geospatial technologies used to both corroborate and at the same time confute previous believes …
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Data Integration and Reservoir Characterization of the Pennsylvanian Bartlesville Sandstone
… well locations, water flood studies, and historical maps, a more sharply defined characterization has been generated for the productive Bartlesville, or Glenn Pool, Sandstone.</p>
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From grain to floodplain: evaluating heterogeneity of floodplain hydrostratigraphy using sedimentology, geophysics, and remote sensing
… from slug tests, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), historical maps of former channels, LiDAR-based elevation and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data to infer 3-D fluvial stratigraphy. We compare and contrast stratigraphy of two meanders with disparate geometries to explore floodplain …
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IMAGINING SPACE: DEVELOPING A CRITICAL GEO-LITERACY WITH MAPS AS PRIMARY SOURCES IN HISTORY EDUCATION
Maps, while often regarded as accurate representations of places and spaces unseen in lived experience, are created with specific purposes that reflect and perpetuate particular epistemological and ontological conceptions about space and place. Using Foucault's conception of power-knowledge …
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A comparative study of indigenous people's and early European settlers' usage of three Perth wetlands, Western Australia, 1829-1939
… a methodology that combines cultural landscape, historical and biophysical concepts as guiding themes. Assisted by historical maps and field observations, this study offers an ecological perspective on the wetlands, depicting changes in the human footprint on its landscape, and mapping the …
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Later prehistoric and Roman rural settlement and land-use in western Transylvania
… gazetteers) and relevant information from historical maps. Al the material has been analysed utilising a relational database linked to a GIS. The results provide a complex reconsideration on a more realistic and up-to-date basis of previous theories regarding the native settlement pattern …
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Post-Byzantine Church Architecture in Cyprus, 1191-1571
… earlier photos, drawings, engravings and historical maps. An additional valuable source of information has been the fivsco-icons that illustrate models of the churches. The method of analysis was based on the classification of the churches according to their architectural style, types and …
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The impact of past land-use change on floristic diversity in southern Sweden : a quantitative approach based on high-resolution pollen data
… the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm (LRA), historical maps/aerial photographs, palynological richness and new ways to estimate past evenness at regional and local spatial scales, which enable estimates of the rate and degree of change in land-use and floristic diversity. The results show …
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A Trickle Runs Through It: An Environmental History of the Santa Fe River, New Mexico
… geomorphology. The digital reconstruction of historical acequia networks, the estimation of irrigation land totals from the rectification of historical maps, and the correlation of streamflow (reconstructed from tree-ring data) to yearly irrigation potential are new methods that connect river …
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A study of the impacts of fragmentation on the North Kent grazing marshes landscape characteristics, features and vegetation communities
… to different fragmentation processes. Historical data (Ordnance Survey and historical maps) were used to determine the pattern of fragmentation of the North Kent Marshes from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day and to identify the fragmentation processes, which were …
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Stampede: the Klondike Gold Rush and the individuals who experienced it
… the best photographs ever taken of this event. Historical maps, illustrations, and newspaper articles are also included. As a result, this synthesis of materials gives us keen insight into the people who experienced the gold rush, and what they went through. This approach lends to a deeper …
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Gravel barrier dynamics, coastal erosion and flooding risk
… for shoreline change analysis which include historical maps, vertical aerial photographs, LiDAR (light detection and ranging) elevation surveys, cross-shore topography profiles, hydrodynamic and weather times series. Then five unique shoreline proxies are defined, and the shoreline extraction …
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Ermittlung historischer Parameter eines kleinen Einzugsgebietes am Beispiel des Pfefferfließes
Am Beispiel eines Fließgewässers (Pfefferfließ) wurde unter Verwendung verschiedener Methoden die hydrologische Situation eines naturnahen Zustandes des 18. Jh. dargestellt bzw. ermittelt. Die Grundlage zur Ermittlung eines naturnahen Zustandes des 18. Jh. waren historische Daten wie z.B. Karten, …