GIS-based visibility study for the Ludwigsau combined cycle power plant
For a planned combined cycle power plant (CCPP), a method of GIS-based areal visibility analysis was developed and applied. This method can be used to simulatively determine from which areas in the vicinity of the planned power plant site the power plant buildings (i.e., in particular, the two 75 m high smokestacks and the two up to 40 m high boiler houses) are visible.
The GIS-based visibility study was carried out on the basis of the methodology described by ROTH (2002), which is a further development of the method of WEIDENBACH (1999).
The data basis for this investigation was the Official Topographic Cartographic Information System (ATKIS-DLM and ATKIS-DGM) of the Hessian State Office for Land Management and Geoinformation as well as a georeferenced site and elevation plan of the planned combined cycle power plant.
Literature
ROTH, M. (2002): Possibilities of using geographic information systems for the analysis, evaluation and presentation of the landscape. In: Nature and Landscape 77 (4): pp. 154-160.
WEIDENBACH, M. (1999): Geographic information systems and new digital media in landscape planning. Faculty of Forestry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: Dissertation. Berlin: Logos-Verlag. 252 S.
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Duration:
01.04.2007 - 31.08.2007
Researcher:
- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Michael Roth
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dietwald Gruehn
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