Geographic Information Science (GIScience) and Geospatial Approaches for the Analysis of Historical Visual Sources and Cartographic Material

• Other Authors: Zohar, Motti (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Geography; land use/land cover (LULC); landscapes; historical maps; Geographic Information System (GIS); agriculture; vineyards; olive groves; Ein Karem; Bethlehem; Hebron; urban geomorphology; anthropogenic landforms; old maps; contour lines; Genoa; historical GIS; HGIS; GIS tools; fishnet; grid; urban morphology; Inoh's map; coastlines; terrain; land use; uncertainty; visibility; topographic accessibility; Central Europe; information system; Vltava River; geolocation; photographs; historical visual sources; graph embeddings; geospatial descriptors; indexing and retrieval of historical data; GIS; carbon balance; rural landscape; total environment; historical geography; GIScience; visual sources; spatial approaches; cartography
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This book focuses on the use of GIScience in conjunction with historical visual sources to resolve past scenarios. The themes, knowledge gained and methodologies conducted might be of interest to a variety of scholars from the social science and humanities disciplines.