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Land Use Planning and Advanced Geospatial Technologies for Cultural Heritage Conservation and Monitoring

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 1193

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Dr. Krzysztof R. Karsznia

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Department of Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: land surveying; engineering geodesy; remote sensing; deformation monitoring; sensors; total station; levelling; displacement; movements; civil engineering; inclinometers; metrology; data processing; adjustment; laser scanning; BIM; GIS; geodesy; GNSS; SAT
Dr. Agnieszka Zwirowicz-Rutkowska

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Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Military University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland
Interests: geoinformation systems; geospatial technology; ontologies; geovisualization; business informatics; system and software engineering; spatial planning
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Prof. Dr. Izabela Karsznia

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Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: geodesy and cartography; geographic information systems; cartography and topography; technical drawing; GIS–functionality and applications; topographic field works; spatial reference systems; automation in the generalization process; geodetic field works; acquisition of 3D data (GPS)

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The diagnosis of the preservation status of historical assets, coupled with the analysis of their structural integrity and the surrounding dynamically changing planning environment, constitutes one of the priority challenges in contemporary engineering and spatial planning sciences. A crucial aspect in this context is the effective integration of diverse research methodologies, the harmonization of multi-source geospatial data with evolving land use forms, and the efficient exploration of heterogeneous datasets. High research effectiveness depends on a skillful transition from the planning scale (macro)—encompassing urban elements and spatial planning regulations—to the metrological scale (micro), including the precise deformation assessment of individual objects using advanced remote sensing, photogrammetric, and geotechnical technologies. This holistic approach to heritage studies, which integrates geoinformation, planning aspects, and the analysis of archival materials, represents the core focus of this Special Issue, to which we cordially invite submissions.

The primary objective of this Special Issue is to gather together high-quality papers (original research articles and comprehensive review papers) that offer insights into the synergistic integration of spatial planning, advanced geospatial data acquisition, processing, and analytical methods with archival research. This integration is sought to facilitate a comprehensive understanding and modeling of phenomena that influence the structural integrity and preservation status of cultural heritage assets. Topics encompassing land use, spatial and urban planning, with their integration with geoinformation–based methodologies, are particularly welcomed.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

- Role of advanced geoinformatics in comprehensive heritage documentation;

- Synergistic integration of sensing data with spatial planning;

- Combining remote sensing, photogrammetric, and geodetic solutions with elements of spatial planning and regulations;

- Multi-format and multi-scale data fusion for land use change analysis;

- Methodologies for integrating multi-format spatial data across macro- and micro-scales to effectively document and analyze changes in land use patterns and their impact on historic sites;

- Development of planning-oriented computer systems using artificial intelligence;

- Methodologies for integrating multi-source spatial data to build planning expert systems (PESs), with a particular emphasis on utilizing machine learning (ML) and deep learning techniques.

We cordially invite contributors from the fields of spatial and urban planning, geodesy, and geoinformatics, as well as civil engineering, construction, and data science. Experts from other related disciplines whose novel perspectives can effectively link interdisciplinary experiences and enrich the current state of science and technology in this area are also strongly encouraged to submit.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and comprehensive review papers.

Dr. Krzysztof R. Karsznia
Dr. Agnieszka Zwirowicz-Rutkowska
Prof. Dr. Izabela Karsznia
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • spatial planning of historical areas
  • geospatial data integration
  • land use of historical sites
  • heterogeneous data exploration
  • structural integrity assessment
  • urban planning

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Typology and Spatial Distribution of Traditional Villages in Southern Shanxi from the Perspective of Clan Culture
by Zehui Jia, Lei Cao, Siqi Gao, Lihao Meng, Chu Zhang and Ying Gao
Land 2026, 15(8), 1487; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081487 - 17 Aug 2026
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In the kinship-based social structure of traditional China, traditional villages often exhibit strong clan organizational characteristics, which are reflected in their spatial layouts and settlement forms. However, existing studies on traditional villages have paid limited systematic attention to clan culture as an endogenous [...] Read more.
In the kinship-based social structure of traditional China, traditional villages often exhibit strong clan organizational characteristics, which are reflected in their spatial layouts and settlement forms. However, existing studies on traditional villages have paid limited systematic attention to clan culture as an endogenous form of social organization. Taking traditional villages in southern Shanxi as the research object, this study classifies traditional villages from the perspective of clan culture based on clan-related characteristics and analyzes the typical spatial structural features of different village types. On this basis, GIS techniques are used to examine their spatial distribution patterns and to compare the spatial differentiation of different village types in terms of elevation, slope, road accessibility, and proximity to water systems. The results show that, from the perspective of clan culture, traditional villages in southern Shanxi generally present an “east-dense and west-sparse” spatial distribution pattern. Different types of traditional villages show certain differences in spatial distribution and natural-locational conditions. The distribution pattern of Clan-Space-Dominated Villages is relatively consistent with the overall distribution of traditional villages in southern Shanxi; these villages are mostly located in areas with higher elevation, greater terrain relief, and relatively weaker road accessibility. Multi-Clan-Partitioned Villages show a multi-scale and multi-node clustering pattern and are more often distributed in areas with relatively better road connections and gentler terrain. Family–Courtyard-Dominated Villages present a pattern of “overall dispersion with local clustering” and are mostly distributed in hilly and gully-developed areas. All three types of villages show a certain degree of proximity to water systems. This study provides a macro-scale analytical perspective for understanding the spatial distribution of traditional villages in the context of clan culture. The findings may offer a theoretical reference for the protection and renewal of traditional villages and contribute to their integrated conservation and living inheritance. Full article
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Exploring the Driving Factors of the Land Use Structure in Traditional Villages of Enshi Prefecture—A New Perspective on Coupling Residents’ Perception
by Hongjiao Qu, Luo Guo, Weiyin Wang and Yanfeng Bai
Land 2026, 15(7), 1189; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15071189 - 2 Jul 2026
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Understanding the driving mechanisms of land-use structure change is fundamental for exploring co-evolutionary dynamics of coupled human-land systems. This study focuses on traditional villages in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, integrating spatial analysis, landscape pattern indices, and structural equation modeling (SEM) with [...] Read more.
Understanding the driving mechanisms of land-use structure change is fundamental for exploring co-evolutionary dynamics of coupled human-land systems. This study focuses on traditional villages in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, integrating spatial analysis, landscape pattern indices, and structural equation modeling (SEM) with field surveys and multi-source data. It analyzes spatial distribution, spatiotemporal evolution, and the direct and indirect pathways of topographic heterogeneity, human activities, economic development, and social level on land-use structure change. Results show: (1) Villages concentrate in mountainous junctions at 800–1200 m (52.2%), forming a multi-core, west-dense east-sparse pattern with significant spatial dependence. (2) During 1990–2020, Dong villages exhibited a development-oriented evolution, with slightly expanded cultivated and forest land, intensified fragmentation (patch density increased by up to 8.55%), increased landscape diversity, and slightly decreased grassland and water, reflecting an adaptive balance between economic development and ecological constraints. (3) SEM reveals that topographic heterogeneity exerts significant negative direct effects on human activities (−0.694) and economic development (−0.686), and indirectly constrains social level through multiple mediating pathways; human activities (0.829) and economic development (0.837) strongly drive social level, with economic development also synergistically promoting human activities. This study reveals cascading transmission mechanisms of land-use structure change, providing an empirically grounded theoretical foundation and decision-making reference for ecological protection, cultural inheritance, and sustainable development in mountainous ethnic areas. Full article
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