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In the landscape planning process landscape functions like regulation, carrier, production and information functions must be analyzed (Groot, 1992; Pietsch & Buhmann, 1999; Jessel & Tobias, 2002; von Haaren, 2004; Lang & Blaschke, 2007). For nature conservation the regulation function is the most relevant (Weiers et al., 2004). Therefore landscape ecology defined as a problem-oriented […]

Nowadays mobile devices are used for data capturing using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) (e. g. GPS, GLONASS) in a standardized and formalized way (Dangermond, 2009; Brandt, 2007) to reduce effort in data conversion to implement and use the results in theplanning process. They are used e. g. to create tree cadastre (Pietsch, 2007; Brandt, […]

Information technologies especially GIS can help to improve the landscape planning process and to capture the results in existing information systems for future use or as part of environmental information or decision support systems (Arnold et al., 2005; Pietsch & Buhmann, 1999; Blaschke, 1997; Lang & Blaschke, 2007; Gontier et al., 2007) (see Fig. 4). […]

Environmental and landscape planning in Germany differs in scope and aims. Landscape planning makes important contributions at all levels and full-coverage while environmental planning deals with specific scales (spatial and temporal) and territories (Koppel et al., 2004; Lambrecht et al., 2007; Riedel & Lange, 2001; von Haaren, 2004). The results of the landscape planning process […]

In Germany, landscape planning, based on the Federal Nature Conservation Act, is the planning instrument for nature conservation and landscape management as opposed to other planning instruments and administrative procedures (The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety 1998; Bfn 2002). It makes important contributions to the conservation of natural resources at […]

In Germany environmental planning and landscape planning can be distinguished (von Haaren, 2004; Kloppel et al., 2004; Jessel & Tobias, 2002; Riedel & Lange, 2001). They are the fundamentals for sustainable planning and the basics for decision-makers to take landscape functions into consideration (BfN, 2002). 1.1.1 Environmental planning There are a lot of policies influencing […]

Landscapes have been designed for thousands of years by human beings with impact from local to global scale (e. g. climate change, degradation). On the one hand intensive land use had and has a great environmental impact (e. g. fragmentation, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, water contamination) on the other hand specific land use types occurred […]

A lot of different terms are used in the context of spatial planning in the literature. Often spatial planning, physical planning, conservation planning, environmental planning, landscape planning, landscape design and a lot of other terms are used (Steinitz, 2010; Flaxman, 2010; Opdam et al., 2002; von Haaren, 2004; Jessel & Tobias, 2002; Kaule, 1991; Gontier, […]

Matthias Pietsch Anhalt University of Applied Science Germany 1. Introduction Landscape planning supports sustainable development by creating planning prerequisites that will enable future generations to live in an ecological intact environment (Bfn, 2002). It breeds to a full-coverage strategy with the aim of maintaining landscape and nature as well as facilitating municipal and industrial development […]

Vegetation metrics are another ancillary data for more accurate LUC mapping. Deriving the metrics is dependent on the spectral resolution of an optical image. A vegetation index derived from combination of image wavebands. The most used vegetation indices are normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), soil adjusted vegetation index (SAVI), normalized difference water index (NDWI), green […]