Preliminary checks turned up the following:
- Night light emissions & Light per capita
- Smog/Smoke emissions
- Hyperspectral imaging
So far there is one study I am aware of that is along the lines of the question:
http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1379515197_Bualhamam.pdf
Dear Shian
Your post and provided auxiliary information do not match so posted query is less clear. For example, your query to mind means how to distinguish feature which are of interest to tourists from other land features. It is not clear you are speaking of a city or countryside or large swath of land. I fail what your preliminary checks are about. Night light emission signifies on the basis of its density on image a settlement while light per capita may distinguish between less developed and more developed part of region or between city and rural settlement. Smog is a secondary pollution and result from mixing of smoke with fog. Again, it indicate pollution level at that place. Hyperspectral imaging is technique in which the recorded spectra have fine wavelength resolution and cover a wide range of wavelengths so that minute details of the scene could be analysed. Though, it is hard to find any relationship among these. However, if one stretch one's imagination to far, then smog is tourism repelling and hyperspectral image can provide detail information to find out areas of tourists' interest.
Your post will attract more detailed and significant responses if you reformulate your query and its details more clearly and logically.
Dear Shian
Your post and provided auxiliary information do not match so posted query is less clear. For example, your query to mind means how to distinguish feature which are of interest to tourists from other land features. It is not clear you are speaking of a city or countryside or large swath of land. I fail what your preliminary checks are about. Night light emission signifies on the basis of its density on image a settlement while light per capita may distinguish between less developed and more developed part of region or between city and rural settlement. Smog is a secondary pollution and result from mixing of smoke with fog. Again, it indicate pollution level at that place. Hyperspectral imaging is technique in which the recorded spectra have fine wavelength resolution and cover a wide range of wavelengths so that minute details of the scene could be analysed. Though, it is hard to find any relationship among these. However, if one stretch one's imagination to far, then smog is tourism repelling and hyperspectral image can provide detail information to find out areas of tourists' interest.
Your post will attract more detailed and significant responses if you reformulate your query and its details more clearly and logically.
Dear Mohammad,
Appreciate the attempts to answer despite the inadequate formulation of the question. I will be clarifying it further (with a new link as well). Nonetheless you have pointed me to more productive and pertinent areas to look into- especially the distinction between light per capita and night-time light emission from cities. Thanks for that and your speculation on smog's repelling effect on visitors- I had in mind some city that hosted the Olympics recently and those in the future that will bid for it.
Best Regards,
Bernard
A very exciting topic; in our research on bear, I have hypothesized that the light at night of tourist residences in rural areas could deter the bear; these seasonal tourist settlements are also noisy, so the light may be not only be a direct deterrent, but also a proxy for other bear deterrents.
From the article you can see that we have small villages and hamlets in this national park; away from the villages you have tourist residence that are not permanently occupied, but only in the holiday seasons; in the winter holiday season the bear hibernate; if one would look for a relation between night light and outdoor tourism, the smaller light sources away for the villages would need to be detected; in a GIS context a distance function could be tested combined with night light imagery.
Also tourist villages and snow sport infrastructure in the Alps would be a promising object for your research; You could probably distinguish tourist and non-tourist villages, by seasonal night light. After masking towns and other urban infrastructure.
Have fun
Article Where the bears roam in Majella National Park, Italy
Dear Bin Jiang,
Thanks for the links and the suggestions to the sources of data.
Dear Hein Van Gils,
Very helpful advice on the application context- yes settlements much like cities involve probably the same dynamics as cities, albeit at a smaller scale. Also the non-urban nature of some of nature-based tourism may allow the advancement of the methodological toolkit beyond urban tourism
Best Regards,
Bernard
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