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Analysing visual impact of tall buildings: a Roman period case study

Posted on December 6, 2019

Introduction A common problem in visibility analysis is to determine the visual impact of a tall building, for instance a skyscraper or a wind turbine. Now, there is a variety of approaches to measure such impact: how tall does the building stand above the horizon, against which background is it... [Read More]
Tags: QGIS visibility plugin

Archéologie des parcellaires : quelques réflexions sur l’exemple du Cantal

Posted on August 20, 2019

Le réseau de parcellaire qui recouvre les campagnes agricoles et pastorales est un sujet particulièrement cher aux archéologues du paysage. Les haies, les chemins, les murets et autres structures qui délimitent les champs cultivés et les pâturages ont parfois une persistance temporelle étonnante : le parcellaire de Hvar, en Croatie,... [Read More]
Tags: field systems

DEM shading algorithm for QGIS

Kickstarter campaign for a happier QGIS :)

Posted on July 5, 2019

I’ve been seeing on the net more and more of beautiful maps made in 3D software, Blender mostly. The reason for venturing into 3D: shadows mostly. While we do have hillshading algorithms in most GIS packages, nothing can beat true ambient light for terrain visualisation. Shadows do not only give... [Read More]
Tags: qgis

Intervisibility analysis in QGIS: an archaeological tutorial

Posted on April 7, 2019

Intervisibility analysis tests the potential for visual connection between two observers. I say potential because visibility on landscape scale is often the question of a myriad factors (distance, atmosphere, signal quality etc…). Visibility analysis in GIS is usually taking into account only the terrain (plus solid buildings) and tests whether... [Read More]
Tags: qgis QGIS visibility plugin

Enhancing terrain cartography with natural shadows

Or, how to produce beauty in QGIS without 3D software.

Posted on March 10, 2019

QGIS algorithm for natural shadow modelling. [Read More]
Tags: qgis
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Zoran Čučković  •  2019  •  LandscapeArchaeology.org  •  ISSN 2649-8774

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