Assessing Village Authenticity with Satellite Images: A Method to Identify Intact Cultural Landscapes in Europe

Ambio

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 594-604

  Angelstam, Per ^a   Boresjö Bronge, Laine ^b   Mikusiński, Grzegorz ^a,c   Sporrong, Ulf ^d   Wästfelt, Anders ^d  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SwedPower AB   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VILLAGE;

BIESZCZADY MOUNTAINS; CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 0346623746     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.8.594     Document Type: Article

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73. We thank Tomasz Winnicki for permission and help to organize the work in the Bieszczady National Park and Maciej Augustyn for supplying historic data. Anders Larsson, Tobias Edman and the referees provided constructive criticism on the manuscript. This study was funded by MISTRA's research program Remote Sensing for the Environment and the fieldwork was carried out as a post-graduate course focussing on landscape sustainability and its assessment.