Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/06/2014 - 08:57 GMT.
Portuguese architect André Vasco Barbosa Brandao, member
of research group LaboraTe (University of Santiago de Compostela),
introduced a new system for the automatic delineation of
rural settlements in local planning processes, applicable
to the more than 10.000 that exist in Galicia. The system
also allows the user to choose alternative approaches to
the one defined in the regional Land Law, and makes use
of an algorithm developed in collaboration with the Computer
Architecture Group at the University of A Coruña.
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