From Archived Historical Aerial Imagery to Informative Orthophotos: A Framework for Retrieving the Past in Long-Term Socioecological Research
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Methods
3.1. Orthorectification: The HAPO Workflow
3.2. Test Area and Remote Sensing Data
3.3. Photointerpretation and Land-Cover Mapping
4. Results
4.1. Historical Orthophotographs and Orthomosaic
4.2. Land-Cover Mapping
5. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Pinto, A.T.; Gonçalves, J.A.; Beja, P.; Pradinho Honrado, J. From Archived Historical Aerial Imagery to Informative Orthophotos: A Framework for Retrieving the Past in Long-Term Socioecological Research. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 1388. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111388
Pinto AT, Gonçalves JA, Beja P, Pradinho Honrado J. From Archived Historical Aerial Imagery to Informative Orthophotos: A Framework for Retrieving the Past in Long-Term Socioecological Research. Remote Sensing. 2019; 11(11):1388. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111388
Chicago/Turabian StylePinto, Ana Teresa, José A. Gonçalves, Pedro Beja, and João Pradinho Honrado. 2019. "From Archived Historical Aerial Imagery to Informative Orthophotos: A Framework for Retrieving the Past in Long-Term Socioecological Research" Remote Sensing 11, no. 11: 1388. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111388