Geographical analyses and artificial intelligence for the study of late medieval settlements in Southern Tuscany (Italy)

This paper presents how Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), integrated in a GIS platform, has been used to analyse ancient settlement patterns, in particular fortified villages and medieval settlements in central Italy. The idea at the base of this method is that each settlement system can be seen as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luca Deravignone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2014-12-01
Series:Belgeo
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/15042