A Study on Landscape Evaluation by Photograph Experiment related to The Landscape Preference Model

Abstract

The photograph experiment of landscape evaluation is widely practiced nowadays, but there are relatively little evidence for the validity df such use of photographic presentation. The purpose of this research is to make clear the limitation of such method especially on difference between a monochrome and a color photo, and to verify Shafer's Landscape Preference Model. The following results obtained.
1) Microcomputer assisted landscpe photograph measuaring system was made.
2) My experiments for verification of Shafer's Model have made it clear that this model cannot be applied to the natural landscapes in Japan without modification.
3) The response to a color photo have more variance than those to a monochrome.