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Photography, Land-Cover and Land-Use changes, and tourism urbanization: A narrative focused on Hotel do Garbe, Armação de Pêra, Algarve, Portugal
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This article is focused on the use of photography to characterize land-cover and land-use
changes in a 7.59 km2
study area centered on Hotel do Garbe, in the village of Armação de Pêra,
Algarve, Portugal. Orthorectified vertical aerial, oblique aerial and ground-level photographs were
the main data sources required to carry out the analysis. In a preliminary approach, a conventional
research design was adopted. Based on the available orthorectified vertical aerial photographs, a
sixty-year time series, with four homogeneously distributed steps (1958, 1978, 1997 and 2018), was
constructed, and maps were produced to support the description of the changes that have taken
place. To deepen the analysis, photographs from fourteen picture postcards were recognized as a
useful source of information, and the authors of these photographs were considered “involuntary
or accidental photo-geographers” whose work was relevant to feed a case study in which human
geography and landscape biography sciences are the main narrative axes. The final result proved to
be richer than the interpretation only based on the orthorectified vertical aerial photographs, and the
importance of combining photographs taken from different points of view, with different aims and
for different recipients is highlighted.
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Armação de Pêra Algarve Tourism industry Tourism urbanization Tourism city Picture postcard Aerial photography Land-cover and land-use Landscape biography
Citation
Land 12 (3): 674 (2023)
