Abstract
Geographic Information System and Digital Elevation Model were applied for an evaluation of pasture landscape. To analyze the spatial structure of landscape quantitatively, map database on test site was constructed. It expressed 4 indices, 1) Distance, 2) Visibility and invisibility, 3) Angle of depression or elevation and 4) Depth. The landscape of test site was analyzed as follows; i) The test site has 40.73km2 visible area. ii) View of west side is mountainous, and depth is perceptible by ridges. iii) View of north-to-east side does not have long distance landscape. iv) Though view of south-east side has long-distance landscape, it is not continuous from viewer point. These results agreed with the features of real landscape generally. It shows that this method is effective for landscape analysis.
