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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 27-699
Full Name: Luis Loures
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Address: Parque de Campismo Orbitur Quarteira
Country: PORTUGAL
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E-mail address: lcloures@hotmail.com
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Title of the Paper: Using geographic information systems in visual and aesthetic analysis: the case study of a golf course in algarve
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Pedro Vargues, Luis Loures
Email addresses of all the authors: pedropaisagista@gmail.com,lcloures@ualg.pt
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Adequate information about the existing landscape and about the nature of places that it is desirable to create and to experiment, can no longer be the result of superficial approaches based exclusively on designers and planners' ideas. Even if, planning and monitoring programs frequently use remote sensing data, focusing on changes in land cover and land use in relation to values such as biodiversity, land capability and recreation, they often neglect landscape aesthetics and culture. Aesthetics, a concept developed by the western civilization, has been a subject of debate for philosophers and artists, from the time of the ancient Greece, and more recently for architects, urban and environmental managers and even policy makers. In the present study a quantitative landscape assessment method was used in order to estimate visual impact, landscape quality, landscape fragility and visual absorption capability of a planned golf course which will be implemented in a for!
est landscape in the Algarve. The Study area is an enclosed, meadow, riverside landscape in Loulé, Portugal. Numerical values were used to assign factors such slope, vegetation observation distance, visual magnitude and human activities in order to analyze, evaluate and characterize the landscape. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used in order to understand and manage the visual resources and to mitigate the visual impacts that may arrise from the implemetation of the proposed golf course development.
Keywords: Geographic Information System, Aesthetics, Landscape quality, Landscape fragility, Visual absorption capability, Visual impact, Landscape assessment
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Special (Invited) Session: Geographic Information System to Predict Visual Impact Assessment
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