Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps. - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History Année : 2024

Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps.

Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps.

Alexis Litvine
  • Fonction : Auteur
  • PersonId : 1088929
Rehmana Younis
  • Fonction : Auteur
  • PersonId : 1383669
Yannick Faula
Mickaël Coustaty

Résumé

Using both “off the shelf” remote sensing software, machine learning and computational algorithms, this article details a new methodology to extract building and urban footprints from historical maps. We applied these methods to create the first dataset of all built-up areas (BUA) in Britain in the early nineteenth century, covering all locations with buildings in England, Wales, and Scotland. The developed methods can now be applied to other maps and regions to provide useful quantitative data for analyzing long-term urban development. The code and data created are made available with this article.

Dates et versions

hal-04579654 , version 1 (17-05-2024)

Identifiants

Citer

Alexis Litvine, A Starzec, Rehmana Younis, Yannick Faula, Mickaël Coustaty, et al.. Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps.. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2024, ⟨10.1080/01615440.2024.2324163⟩. ⟨hal-04579654⟩
0 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Mastodon Facebook X LinkedIn More