Abstract

This study explores the concept of pasture, looking at how people classify it and the features that determine how an image is classified. The analysis is based on two parallel studies that used the same image material. The first study was a web-based survey in which respondents were asked to make a pairwise comparison of the images they felt best corresponded to pasture. The second study used eye-tracking to investigate the elements viewed by respondents as they considered the degree to which images corresponded to pasture. It is found that the respondents had clear and mostly similar concepts of pasture and that they apply these consistently when categorising pasture.

Keywords

Perception; land cover; eye-tracking; landscape monitoring

Published in

Landscape Research
2014, Volume: 39, number: 4, pages: 402-416
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

SLU Authors

• Ode Sang, Åsa

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Hägerhäll, Caroline

  • Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Pihel, Johan

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2013.793763

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/63151