Open AccessLandscape and mapping support of regional geoecological analysis
Author(s) -
T. I. Kuznetsova,
D.A. Lopatkin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/381/1/012053
Subject(s) - thematic map , natural (archaeology) , geographic information system , geography , computer science , cartography , data science , environmental resource management , archaeology , environmental science
The aim of the study was to develop a methodology for geographic synthesis of knowledge based on the polygeosystem concept and the idea of interpretative landscape-ecological mapping using GIS technologies, ranging from the study of general principles and logic of research to solving specific problems of geographic information mapping. The mapping strategy is to display the natural landscape as a complex of human living conditions in comparison with anthropogenic impact and possible consequences. The methodology for creating an outfit of landscape maps represents a combination of traditional mapping methods and geo-information methods for organizing thematic spatial data and their modification using GIS technologies. The basic principle of the creation of the cartographic information system (CIS) is the principle of complexity, which presupposes the existence of a system of landscape classification that is uniform for all thematic electronic layers of the CIS, and which can combine their natural and anthropogenic components. Such an approach provides a means of presenting a series of conjugated landscape-ecological interpretation maps of the Baikal region in the form of a holistic CIS consisting of an outfit of thematic layers, united by a common concept and created on a single landscape basis.