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Introducing visual neighbourhood configurations for total viewsheds

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posted on 2018-06-04, 14:45 authored by Tom Brughmans, Mereke van Garderen, Mark Gillings
The Visual Neighbourhood Configurations (VNCs) approach is presented: a new approach for exploring complex theories of visual phenomena in landscapes by processing total viewsheds. Such theories most commonly concern the configuration of visual properties of areas around locations rather than solely the visual properties of the locations themselves. The typical approach to interpreting total viewshed results by classifying cell values is therefore problematic because it does not take cells’ local areas into account. VNC overcomes this issue by enabling one to formally describe area-related aspects of the visibility theory, because it formally incorporates the area around a given viewpoint: the shape and size of neighbourhoods as well as, where relevant, the structure and expectation of visual property values within the neighbourhood. Following a brief review that serves to place the notion of the VNC in context, the method to derive visual neighbourhood configurations is explained as well as the VNC analysis tool software created to implement it. The use of the method is then illustrated through a case-study of seclusion, hiding and hunting locales afforded by the standing stone settings of Exmoor (United Kingdom).

Funding

The work presented here was performed as part of the Caribbean Connections: Cultural Encounters in a New World Setting project, financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme, and the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement nº 1133; and as part of the project NEXUS1492 (http://www.nexus1492.eu/), which has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC grant agreement nº 319209.

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Citation

Journal of Archaeological Science, 96, pp. 14-25

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Archaeology and Ancient History/Core Staff

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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Elsevier, Association for Environmental Archaeology

issn

0305-4403

eissn

1095-9238

Acceptance date

2018-05-14

Copyright date

2018

Available date

2018-06-04

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440318302383

Notes

Supplementary data related to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.05.006.

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en

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