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Combining Different Data Sources for City Growth Analysis and Architectural Heritage Mapping

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Book cover Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes: A Geomatics Perspective

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This chapter discusses our research effort on city growth documentation and architectural heritage mapping through the combined use of maps and sketches, declassified satellite data, aerial photographs and modern satellite imagery. For analyzing city growth, an extended time frame is preferred. We selected the City of Erbil in northern Iraq as a case study site due to its extensive expansion and the lack of information documenting this process. The area of Iraqi Kurdistan has been inhabited for at least 6,000 years and the sandy dry landscape has retained many monuments there. The centre of Kurdistan is the rapidly growing City of Erbil. Shortly after World War II the city had about 40,000 inhabitants, but now the number is close to two million. This area has become the commercial, cultural, agricultural and administrative centre of the region. The world-renowned historical monument known as the Citadel Al-Qala is located at Erbi’s historic center. This project has focused upon the mapping of the Al-Qala citadel using satellite images and aerial photographs. After creating a vector-based planimetric map, we have further produced a virtual three-dimensional model covering the valuable parts of the Citadel with textures, along with a citadel information system. Our work has demonstrated the utility of combining various sources of data for temporal analysis of city growth and for heritage mapping.

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    Erbil citadel has been inscribed on the World Heritage List on June 21, 2014. http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1155.

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This project was supported with a grant from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (# MSM6840770040), Czech Republic.

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  1. Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Thákurova 7, 166 09, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Karel Pavelka & Eva Matoušková

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Pavelka, K., Matoušková, E. (2015). Combining Different Data Sources for City Growth Analysis and Architectural Heritage Mapping. In: Li, J., Yang, X. (eds) Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes: A Geomatics Perspective. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9813-6_3

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