Central Idea
Information about current state and recent changes of landscape-creating
elements and scenery (such as forests, lakes, meadows etc.) are
important basics for environmental impact assessment (EIA), urban
development plans and recreation plans, forest management and environmental
politics and decision- making on a local and a regional scale.
Currently parameters of interest can be obtained manually, by the
aid of remote sensing methods or by extrapolating results from former
inventories. Conventional data collection is time and cost consuming,
inaccurate and in some cases not reproducible (quality of measurements
is depended on the measuring person).
In addition, an integrative concept in environmental assessment
that leads to an optimization of limited budgetary funds and a wide
range of usability is missing. Based on this situation analysis
requirements that have to be reached by a future-oriented, integrative
inventory concept can be formulated:
Data to be collected:
a) time and cost- efficient,
b) detailed,
c) in an objective way and
d) contemporary.
Comparative figures for evaluating the new concept will be obtained
from conventional inventories. It must be taken into consideration
that the method should be independent from the subject of the inventory,
this means the above mentioned inventory method has to be suitable
in forests as well as in fields or parks etc. Raw data tuning and
data processing (i.e. cartographic presentations and maps) with
secondary software should create no problems.
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