Identifying Visual Quality of Rural Road Landscape Character by Using Public Preference and Heatmap Analysis in Sabak Bernam, Malaysia
, Shamsul Abu Bakar 1,*, Suhardi Maulan 1, Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof 1, Riyadh Mundher 1 and Khalilah Zakariya 2Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
First, I would like to present my pleasure for this opportunity reading this work. In my opinion, it's an interesting research and the results can help Malaysia improve the road landscapes in rural area, and there is potential to expand the discovery to other countries.
Second, there are several comments and suggestions for the authors to polish this work, and they are:
1. I suggest to reorganize 1.1,1.2, and 1.3 to a independent part of the paper and name it to "literature review", and in the last paragraph of this part, put some critical thoughts and conclusion on the literature reviews, combining with the aim of the paper.
2. 3 aims are proposed in the second page of this paper, and all are focusing on Malaysia. I understand that the unique contributions to the country, while we should believe that a wider contribution should be figured out. Could the authors address more aims or wider aims of this paper?
3. Due to the fact that the majority of the respondents are young people, the results of this research have a certain age bias. Authors are suggested t explain more on the results reasonability given the age bias here. And the same questions exist in ethinicity and type of work.
Thanks again.
Author Response
Dear reviewer:
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors,
I congratulate you on your work, it has been a pleasure to read it and to see what you bring to the scientific community. Furthermore, I encourage you to continue developing this type of techniques by promoting the automation of processes and applications, for example, to video stills. With the permission of the editors, I give permission that, after finishing the evaluation, we can collaborate in the future in this last line of research.
Yours sincerely.
Author Response
Dear reviewer:
First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to read this article and for your valuable comments. I will continue to improve and refine the techniques in future research. I look forward to working with you in the future!
