Landscape modelling of Ilomantsi field scenery areas by GIS-based

methods

BBN project

Kaunas 9.11.2007

Heikki Parikka

The Regional Council of North Karelia

Landscape Planning and Bioenergy in Ilomantsi

The Hill Villages of Ilomantsi are one of the 27 national named landscapes in Finland

These landscapes have great symbolic value and widely recognised significance in cultural and historical terms

Due to changes in agriculture and land use, traditional landscapes and cultivation fields are reforesting and disappearing.

Situation of land use, bioenergy resources and production possibilities in hill fields areas are well defined using different kinds of statistics.

One opportunity to protect valuable cultural landscapes is to cultivate biomass plants e.g. grass, oilseed rape, reed canary grass or cereal crops for bioenergy

Bioenergy production can also support local employment, economical and social development and decrease dependency of import energy.

The Hill Villages of Ilomantsi

Inventory of the scenery areas (the North Karelia Regional Environment Centre)

Field parcel data (the Information Centre of Ministry of Agriculture in Finland, TIKE)

The Field Parcels in the Landscape Areas

The acreage of the field parcels in the scenery areas in Ilomantsi 375 ha The area of not cultivated or abandoned fields in landscape areas 142 ha 38 % not cultivated

Ilomantsi: fields on tops of hills

Not cultivated Cultivated

Hakovaara, Ilomantsi

The landscape view sectors in Hakovaara

The Use of Fields in 2005, Hakovaara

Visualising GIS data in the Internet The Ilomantsi field data in an Openlayers user interface (www.openlayers.org) The data published by Geoserver Open Source server (www.geoserver.org) The field data loaded from a PostgreSQL database (http://www.postgresql.org/) The Satellite image from from Google Earth™ mapping service

Landscape visualisation in the Internet

Visualisation of a field reforestation by Google Earth™ and COLLADA™ tree models

Google Earth visualisation of Hakovaara

Ex.kmz could be run with GoogleEarth

Thank You!