Development of Landscape Diagnosis Model based on Public Participation GIS for Public Participation

The aim of this study is to develop a Diagnosis Model of Landscape(DML), which is a kind of Public Participation GIS(PPGIS) under web environment in the landscape planning field. Following the nature of public participation, DML was intended for ordinary people as well as for professional group. Therefore, DML, which is equipped with Survey Map to provide a participant with information in advance, Diagnosis Map to encourage public participation, and Image-base Map module to make a comparative study of photo-images by time series and to save photo-images, furnishes intuitive interfaces easy to use as possible. DML induces the public to participate actively in a debate on landscape problems and gathers data on diverse opinions as well. The experimental running of this DML on Uiryeong-Eup and Hamyang-Eup, Gyeongnam as case study areas, showed that it had great flexibility of use as a diagnosis model of landscape.