POTENTIAL OF ANTIQUE MAPS AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FOR LANDSCAPE CHANGES ASSESSMENT - AN EXAMPLE OF THE HIGH TATRA MTS

摘要

The presented paper is aimed to introduce some results of a study Historical landscape structure as a platform of landscape revitalisation in the wind-afflicted area of the High Tatras which was cariied out by Geoinformatic Laboratory UJEP together with Slovakian specialists. Being focused on antique maps and aerial photographs and their value for landscape-history assessment, the study has a strong cartographic aspect which is concentrated in this paper. The main attention is paid jto the military maps and stable cadastre joined both by archive and recent aerial photographs to form the temporal series of reconstructed land-cover maps which enable us to observe landscape evolution of the studied area. Since an important role in methodology is played by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) the questions of georeferencing and interpretation of the data sources are referred to as well.