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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Filippo BrandoliniORCiD, Professor Sam Turner
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The necessity of sustainable development for landscapes has emerged as an important theme in recent decades. Current approaches take a holistic approach to landscape heritage and promote an interdisciplinary dialogue to facilitate complementary landscape management strategies. With the socio-economic values of the “natural” and “cultural” landscape heritage increasingly recognised worldwide, remote sensing tools are being used more and more to facilitate the recording and management of landscape heritage. Satellite remote sensing technologies have enabled significant improvements in landscape research. The advent of the cloud-based platform of Google Earth Engine has allowed the rapid exploration and processing of satellite imagery such as the Landsat and Copernicus Sentinel datasets. In this paper, the use of Sentinel-2 satellite data in the identification of palaeo-riverscape features has been assessed in the Po Plain, selected because it is characterized by human exploitation since the Mid-Holocene. A multi-temporal approach has been adopted to investigate the potential of satellite imagery to detect buried hydrological features along with Spectral Index and Spectral Decomposition analysis. This research represents one of the first applications of the GEE Python API in landscape studies. The complete FOSS-cloud protocol proposed here consists of a Python code script developed in Google Colab which could be simply adapted and replicated in different areas of the world.
Author(s): Brandolini F, Ribas A, Zerboni A, Turner S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Open Research Europe
Year: 2021
Volume: 1
Online publication date: 03/09/2021
Acceptance date: 18/01/2021
Date deposited: 05/01/2021
ISSN (electronic): 2732-5121
Publisher: European Commission
URL: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.13135.2
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13135.2
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