Knowledge bases have been built to support three environment and landscape planning processes to assess and decide where and how to: • locate environmental systems (waste disposal and processing, water supply and processing) in areas included within the EU’s Objective 2 programmes for the Liguria Region; • design strategies, zoning and rules for the plan of the Cinque Terre National Park, which prioritise high value landscape preservation; and • establish a new layout for strategic railway and motorway infrastructures for the metropolitan area of Genoa, tackling the question of compatibility with the affected areas. The knowledge bases, built for the three planning support systems (PSS), require: the investigation of multiple phenomena to organise data, the analysis of data relationships to elaborate meaningful information and the formulation of synthetic models to represent the environmental systems involved in the planning process. Geographical information systems (GIS) projects, characterised by similar methodological procedures, were designed to process the complex knowledge, developed on the basis of a interpretation cognitive procedure. The innovative aspect of this method lies in the transfer of conceptual models, used to interpret the environmental systems and to represent the landscape profiles, into the methodological procedures adopted to organise the data and to query the database. For this reason, the aspects common to all three experiences were illustrated, which are significant not only in terms of the technological instrument adopted, but above all for the way in which they were used.

Geo-Information Technologies in Support of Environmental and Landscape Planning

DOMINICI, MARIA LUISA
2009-01-01

Abstract

Knowledge bases have been built to support three environment and landscape planning processes to assess and decide where and how to: • locate environmental systems (waste disposal and processing, water supply and processing) in areas included within the EU’s Objective 2 programmes for the Liguria Region; • design strategies, zoning and rules for the plan of the Cinque Terre National Park, which prioritise high value landscape preservation; and • establish a new layout for strategic railway and motorway infrastructures for the metropolitan area of Genoa, tackling the question of compatibility with the affected areas. The knowledge bases, built for the three planning support systems (PSS), require: the investigation of multiple phenomena to organise data, the analysis of data relationships to elaborate meaningful information and the formulation of synthetic models to represent the environmental systems involved in the planning process. Geographical information systems (GIS) projects, characterised by similar methodological procedures, were designed to process the complex knowledge, developed on the basis of a interpretation cognitive procedure. The innovative aspect of this method lies in the transfer of conceptual models, used to interpret the environmental systems and to represent the landscape profiles, into the methodological procedures adopted to organise the data and to query the database. For this reason, the aspects common to all three experiences were illustrated, which are significant not only in terms of the technological instrument adopted, but above all for the way in which they were used.
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