Elien Vernackt’s scientific contributions

... On the one hand, the technique of georeferencing has enabled cartographers to assign spatial coordinates to unreferenced but inherently spatial data (like a painting, a map or an aerial photograph), so they can be projected on modern, geographically correct datasets (Balletti 2006). On the other hand, techniques such as the Digital Thematic Deconstruction (DTD), which systematically transcribes and thematically categorises all the cartographic or iconographic elements in a map, allows historians to re-evaluate topographic features and patterns both in greater depth and from a holistic perspective (Vannieuwenhuyze & Vernackt 2014). Such digitalisation, vectorisation and georectification of paintings and maps have already been successfully implemented in both cityscape-projects (e.g. the MAGIS project in Bruges 1 , the Nolli Map project in Rome 2 , the Alpage project in Paris 3 , or the mapping of medieval Chester 4 ), and landscapes-projects (e.g. ...

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Mapping/Painting the Medieval Landscape. A Landscape-archaeological analysis of the medieval landscape as depicted by Pieter Pourbus