Geo-Eye

Abstract

The term landscape is used in many different contexts with numerous different definitions. In most disciplines it has a clear spatial dimension based on natural as well as cultural. From an ecological point of view, a landscape may function as a scale measure relative to the movement of different organisms, usually a large area including components like heterogeneity and habitat mosaics. In social science and humanities, landscape is commonly conceived as a holistic dimension, a continuum without limits, where physical elements, socio-economical qualities and institutional components are included together with immaterial aspects such as value systems, tradition and knowledge. The degree of Naturalness can be used as a criteria for identifying and delineating the landscape anywhere since the all regions in the world are somewhere in the range from a natural to cultural landscape transformation.

Keywords: Landscape; Naturalness; NDVI; Population Density