Landscape Architect
A relatively new type of licensed design professional, landscape architects apply the latest theories and methods for landscape planning.
Landscape Characterization
Documentation of the traits and patterns of the essential elements of the landscape.
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Landscape Indicator
A measurement of the landscape, calculated from mapped or remotely sensed data, used to describe spatial patterns of land use and land cover across a geographic area.
Landscape impoundment: Body of reclaimed water which is used for aesthetic enjoyment or which otherwise serves a function not intended to include contact recreation.
landscape
All the natural features such as fields, hills, forests, and water that distinguish one part of the earth's surface from another part.
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Definition (english only)
The traits, patterns, and structure of a specific geographic area, including its biological composition, its physical environment, and its anthropogenic or social patterns.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Landscape architecture can be described as the science, technique and art of ecological, ...
Landscape Ecology
The study of the distribution patterns of communities and ecosystems, the ecological processes that affect those patterns, and changes in pattern and process over time.
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Cultural Landscape
A cluster of beliefs, values, and norms about how places and things on earth are related to human behavor.
bioswale: landscape element designed to capture rainwater runoff and remove silt and pollution before it enters the water table.
FOREST SITES - Landscape
Landscape is a layperson's term that simply refers to appearance of the land features in a region.
The screen shows a landscape with several clickable features.
An image of the sun. If you click it, you'll see a popup that says: “The sun. Renewable. Solar energy won't run out, no matter how much is used.
Plastic bags end up as litter that fouls the landscape, and kill thousands of marine mammals every year that mistake the floating bags for food.
Hydrologic cycle - (1) The cycling of water from the atmosphere, onto and through the landscape and eventually back into the atmosphere.
Multistage Remote Sensing- A strategy for landscape characterization that involves gathering and analyzing information at several geographic scales, ...
Is it reasonable to expect a river to be pristine in a landscape that no longer is? If a river has always carried sediment, is it polluted even if the cause is not man induced? Can water quality be maintained when water quantity can not?
Water Efficient Landscaping - Using native plant species and landscape desings appropriate to the local climate can greatly reduce the amount of watering needed for maintenance. In dry climates using this strategy can be particularly beneficial.
Any surface in the urban landscape that cannot effectively absorb or infiltrate rainfall.
IMPERVIOUSNESS
The percentage of impervious cover within a development site or watershed.
The treatment of wastewater to make it suitable for a beneficial reuse, such as landscape irrigation. Also called water recycling.
Water table
The top level of water stored underground.
precipitation rate, sprinkling The surface application rate for landscape watering, usually expresed in inches per hour.
precipitator Pollution control device that collects particles from an air stream.
Reclamation project. A project where water obtained from a sanitary district or system undergoes additional treatment for a variety of uses, including landscape irrigation, industrial uses, and groundwater recharge.
Graywater - Wastewater from sinks, laundry, and car washes that can be collected and treated for reuse in such activities as watering landscape.
flow deposits, that occurs on the upper margin of a piedmont slope, and that has its apex at a point source of alluvium debauching from a mountain valley into an inter-montane basis. Also, a generic term for like forms in various other landscapes.
Ground moraine results in a landscape of gently rolling sags and swells.
moraine, terminal. Hills of unsorted glacial debris (till) that accumulated at the leading edge of the glacier when the rate of melting equaled forward movement.
 See also: Water, Environment, Environmental, Waste, Soil
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