Abstract
Landscape quality (LQ) is understood as the state in which its (landscape) spatial, functional and visual structure is found at a given time. To measure this landscape characteristic different research methods and data types are needed including GIS techniques and remote sensing data as well as interviews and questionnaires, results of social perception studies, analysis of documents, registers and statistical data, landscape visual studies and 3D drawings. Presented study aims to fully analyze the LQ of the Roztocze region based on above mentioned methods. To do so, the categorization of 24 quantitative indices was applied. Results indicated high structural and ecological values, medium visual values and values of spatial harmony and low cultural and perceptual properties of analyzed area. The study results also showed the great importance of spatial data and GIS techniques in LQ assessment.
Highlights
Landscape indicators are defined as indexes that allowed to determine landscape character and its social perception based on numerical values, allowing a large number of data to be reduced to a simple objective measure [1,2]
Values of MPA (18.6), ED (83.28) and Contagion Index (CONTAG) (69.71) (CONTAG approaches to 100 shows that all patch types are maximally aggregated) showed rather compact structure of land cover (LC) forms of the analyzed area, especially while comparing with other national parks in Poland [5]
It derives from the fact that in the LC structure of the Roztocze region predominate the large surface patches, mainly of forest of different types
Summary
Landscape indicators are defined as indexes that allowed to determine landscape character and its social perception based on numerical values, allowing a large number of data to be reduced to a simple objective measure [1,2]. To fully assess LQ different kinds of methods and data types are needed, including GIS techniques, remote sensing data, interviews, questionnaires, results of social perception studies, analysis of documents, register and statistical data, landscape visual studies and 3D drawings as well as in-situ studies and data on ecological state and biodiversity [6]. Such interdisciplinary studies, are the rarity as most papers which have been published so far focused on one or two dimension of LQ by the use of limited types of data and techniques. As test area was selected Roztocze National Park (NP) together with its buffer zone (Fig. 1)
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