Autoren: Erich Buhmann, Stephen M. Ervin

Computer based modeling has transformed engineering, architecture, and many other disciplines in the last two decades. Designers, planners, and scientists working with the landscape have encountered obstacles in the easy incorporation of computer-based techniques from these related disciplines, because the elements of landscape - notably landform, vegetation, and water - present special challenges to modeling. Curved, fuzzy, extensive and often in dynamic flux, landscape elements require special computational techniques for effective digital representation. Off-the-shelf technologies such as CAD and GIS, as well as such exotic techniques as TIN's, CAVE's, fractals and particle systems have all been used to assist in landscape modeling.

The articles in this volume, contributed by leading internationally known experts on landscape modeling, address the wide range of digital techniques that have been developed for landscape modeling, ranging from scientific methods of geomorphological analysis to issues and techniques related to public perception and decision-making about landscape-scale projects. Landscape architects, architects, engineers, earth scientists, planners, computer graphics specialists, and others will all find current state-of-the-art content in these proceedings.


The focus of these proceedings to the 4th International Conference on New Technologies in Landscape Architecture held by the Master of Landscape Architecture Program of Anhalt University of Applied Sciences are following areas:

- TERRAIN MODELING
- VEGETATION MODELING
- INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE VISUALISATION SYSTEMS
- LANDSCAPE MODELING SOFTWARE
- LANDSCAPE REPRESENTATION AND PERCEPTION
- VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES
- COMERCIAL TRENDS in LANDSCAPE MODELING

erschienen im Wichmannverlag 2003, ISBN 3-87907-403-8