TY - JOUR
T1 - Visual perception of cluttering in landscapes: Developing a low resolution GIS-evaluation method
AU - Wagtendonk, A.J.
AU - Vermaat, J.E.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - An empirical method has been developed to quantify perceived landscape cluttering. This method was verified against a subjective, expert-based assessment from literature and tested in a scenario application of land use change in the Netherlands using the land use simulation model 'Land Use Scanner'. The empirical model included three main factors: (1) visually obtrusive landscape elements, such as highway infrastructure, greenhouses, livestock-rearing stables and residential premises, (2) land use diversity and (3) openness of the landscape. The cluttering impact of obtrusive elements (factor 1) was evaluated with a distance decay function. A weighting scheme was applied on these three factors and the resulting cluttering scores were extracted for the same 72 landscape grids of 1km
AB - An empirical method has been developed to quantify perceived landscape cluttering. This method was verified against a subjective, expert-based assessment from literature and tested in a scenario application of land use change in the Netherlands using the land use simulation model 'Land Use Scanner'. The empirical model included three main factors: (1) visually obtrusive landscape elements, such as highway infrastructure, greenhouses, livestock-rearing stables and residential premises, (2) land use diversity and (3) openness of the landscape. The cluttering impact of obtrusive elements (factor 1) was evaluated with a distance decay function. A weighting scheme was applied on these three factors and the resulting cluttering scores were extracted for the same 72 landscape grids of 1km
U2 - 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.006
M3 - Article
SN - 0169-2046
VL - 124
SP - 85
EP - 92
JO - Landscape and Urban Planning
JF - Landscape and Urban Planning
ER -