Managing visual impacts through a GIS: Viewshed analysis for designing a sanitary landfill site

Waste Management and the Environment II

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 439-448

  Tsouchlaraki, A ^a   Achilleos, G ^b  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

GIS; Sanitary Landfill Site; Viewshed analysis; Visual impacts

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; REGIONAL PLANNING; SITE SELECTION;

SANITARY LANDFILL SITE (SLS); TOURIST KIOSKS; VIEWSHED ANALYSIS; VISUAL IMPACTS;

LAND FILL;

EID: 12344276828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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