Computer-Generated Landscape (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Computer-Generated Landscape

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The image on the left is a computer-generated landscape with the colors indicating the meters of soil lost or deposited in different places at the end of a simulation of 300 years of farming and herding. The photos on the right are of modern Mediterranean landscapes. Top is wheat farming in Jordan, middle is an olive grove at the edge of an eroded barranco (ravine) in eastern Spain, the bottom is goat herding in Jordan.

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Michael Barton, ASU; Isaac Ullah, Medland project

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