In the article, the past experiences in the field of land consolidation in Slovenia are presented, which are still reflected in the limited acceptability of this instrument among land owners. The current institutional (legal) framework is analysed in detail. The main objective of the research was to investigate the opinion of land consolidation participants about land consolidation. Based on the field survey conducted on a sample of private land owners involved in selected land consolidation projects we tried to define the advantages and disadvantages of the current practice. The main finding is that the active participation of land owners contributes to their comprehension of the aims and to their satisfaction with the results of the land consolidation. It has been shown that the active participation of land owners in the land consolidation is the basis for developing good practices; moreover, it affects the land owners’ perception of land consolidation. The transfer of knowledge and representation of good practices among actors are still needed, in particular because of bad experiences in the past (i.e. enforced and environmentally unfriendly projects) and the traditional emotional attachment to land among land owners.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6476641
Geographical information is connected to everyday life in many ways. Web cartography has made geospatial data more available to the public. In the next few years, the average age of the population will be over 51 years, with more than 15% of the population over the age of 65 years. The fact that the senior population is increasing suggests that online mapping and map viewer design should be aware of the senior population%s visual restrictions, as well as restrictions of other potential map users, including colour-vision-impaired users. This paper describes the senior population%s visual restrictions that can be compared with colour-vision-impaired users and provides guidelines with regard to online mapping and map viewer design for this growing segment of the elderly population.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6602081
The RANSAC (RANdom SAmpling and Consensus) enables us to search within a given group of points for subgroups of points that belong to a mathematically describable object or a part of an object. The number of iterations within a single repetition depends on the data, selection and settings of the in put parameters (percentage of inliers, probability and minimum number of points that uniquely define a geometrical shape). In our research we applied simulation modelling to analyse the influence of the selection of input parameters on the approximation of the sphere and plane models.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6613601
Our behaviour towards the environment depends on our beliefs about the environment. Beliefs, however, are a subject of change, particularly during important life transitions such as the transition to adolescence, because this is a period when an individual develops the ability of complex and abstract reasoning. Understanding this transition is therefore crucial for understanding and predicting the attitudes and courses of action in terms of sustainable development later in life. Due to many methodological constraints, the number of empirical studies examining these issues is very limited; the current study aimed to collect empirical data to explore the origins of our beliefs about the environment-related issues. We devised a picture association test and used it to compare childrens and adolescents beliefs about our environment in the context of the means of transportation. A large sample of 2264 participants aged 6-18 years took part in the study. The data supported the claim that childrens beliefs about environment share egocentric properties. The findings represent an important puzzle into the whole picture of childrens thinking and offer us great insight into the origins of beliefs about environment-related questions in adults. Educational implications are addressed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6793057
Quaternion is a hyper-complex number. A rule for quaternion multiplications allows us to use it as a rotation in three-dimensional space. The aim of this article is to present quaternion rotations to Slovene professional geodetic public. Quaternions are described in the article along with the manner to use them for rotations. Two experiments were performed to compare the rotations using quaternions versus rotations with Euler angles. The experiments revealed that transformations using quaternion are more efficient than transformations using Euler angles. An adjustment for the determination of transformation parameters is also more efficient if mathematical model is based on quaternion rotation.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6652513