A Viewshed of the ‘Lenscape’
by James Tricker | Jul 5, 2019 | Historic photos, MLP News, MLP research
The Mountain Legacy Project Explorer website provides a map-based tool for investigating MLP collections. But, unless you know the area the photos are from, it is sometimes hard to determine which way they are looking and how much of the landscape they cover. Viewshed analysis to the rescue — read on to find out how!
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