Relationship between landscape visual atributes and spatial pattern indices: A test study in Mediterranean-climate landscapes
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59391DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.05.003
ISSN: 0169-2046
Date
2006Funders
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
Bibliographic citation
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2006, v. , n. 77, p. 393-407
Keywords
Visual aesthetic quality
Spatial metrics
Landscape quality
Landscape structure
Description / Notes
15 p.
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MCITEC// REN2001-0972%GLO/ES//
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Rights
© 2005 Elsevier B.V
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
The analysis of the relationships between landscape visual quality and landscape structural properties is an active area of environmental perception research. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between landscape spatial pattern and the rating of visual aesthetic quality. Eight landscape photographs were evaluated for 11 visual attributes by 98 respondents. The scores obtained for these 11 attributes were subjected to principal components analysis in order to summarize the qualities used by the respondents and thus determine their visual preferences. For each photograph, three window sizes were defined (with respect to a landcover map) to cover the different areas corresponding to the visual field (foreground, mid-ground and background). The landscape spatial structure for each window was analyzed using spatial metrics. The correlation between each dimension and the spatial pattern indices of the landscape were then calculated. Positive correlations were obtained between visual aesthetic quality and a number of landscape pattern indices. The results suggest that landscape heterogeneity might be an important factor in determining visual aesthetic quality
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