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Project

A clear modelling of the fuzzy geometric and semantic data of the Ferraris map in a historical GIS
Code
3F017911
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • History
    • Study of regions
  • Engineering and technology
    • Geomatic engineering
Keywords
automated image recognition lineage studies historical cartography point set based region approximation georeferencing
 
Project description

The Carte de Cabinet of count Joseph de Ferraris (1770-1780) is the oldest, large-scale topographical map of our regions. To allow the map to realize its full potential in different research disciplines a GIS-model will be developed to deal with the map's vague geometry and semantics (the occurrence of globel and local geometric deformations and the absence of parish bouncaries respectively).