The challenge of a joint cartography of the Pyrenean landscapes: Hautes-Pyrénées and Aragon
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Abstract
The main goal of this research is to address one of the open challenges about the Pyrenees: a joint cartography of cross-border landscape that will give access to the knowledge and facilitate the coordination, management, and planning of the different aspects related to the landscape of both sides of the border.
The area of study is the central Pyrenees where Aragon and the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie are frontier.
In the first stage, digital and analogue information about landscape and the available cartographic basis of the whole area of study have been collected and revised.
In Aragon, the cartography on the scale of large landscape domains is available for the whole territory, whereas in France the only available mapping is the one from the Department of Ariège, which is not frontier with Aragon but is Pyrenean landscape. This has allowed to contrast the two cartographies and to elaborate a common legend that facilitates the joint interpretation of both mappings. This research contributes to the production of a map of the French-Spanish Pyrenees (around Aragon and its frontier counterpart) using the topographic basis of the Global Digital Elevation Model, and to the elaboration of a preliminary map of the landscape domains covering the entire territory of Aragon and Hautes-Pyrénées.