Geografie 2025, 130, 193-219
Land use change in the municipality of Chudenice
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Geomatics, Prague, Czechia
Received February 2025
Accepted June 2025
The Czech landscape has undergone several significant changes in the last 200 years, caused by many factors (e.g., the Industrial Revolution and tax reforms in the 19th century, and collectivisation in the second half of the 20th century). The aim of this paper is to describe the land use changes in the municipality of Chudenice between 1837 and 2023, based on GIS analysis of large-scale maps, and to set the ongoing landscape changes carried out by the municipality in a historical context derived from these old maps. It was necessary to develop a procedure to filter out systematic errors in overlapping maps due to the inaccurate comparison of used maps, caused mainly by the process, methods, and year of production of individual maps. As a result, several maps describing the situation were produced. The result is therefore a more accurate analysis of the development of the territory compared to the current landscape changes.
Keywords
Chudenice, land use change, Stable Cadastre, State Map 1:5,000-derived, Basic Topographic Map of the Czech Republic.
Funding
This work was supported by the CTU Student Grant Competition grant No. SGS25/047/OHK1/1T/11.
