In a new studyAccuracy assessment of old large-scale maps and reducing positional error in land use change analyses, which was published in a prestigious magazine Scientific Reports , our colleagues Darina Kratochvílová and Jiří Cajthaml focus on improving the accuracy of overlapping analyses of old maps with the aim of better monitoring changes in the landscape.

The aim of the study was to verify the positional accuracy of large-scale old maps used, for example, in landscape analyses. At the same time, it was necessary to eliminate the influence of positional discrepancies when old maps overlap. When they overlap, narrow polygons are created. By removing these polygons, more accurate vector models of the territory can be achieved, which can then be better compared with each other.