2.4. Methodology for determining the landscape memory
structure
Natural and cultural landscape elements with a relatively
unchanging location and type of cover over a period of time form
elements of the landscape memory structure. What is important is
not stability in terms of permanence of ecological relations, as in
the concept of ecological stability (Míchal, 1994), but rather stability
of the structural characteristics (location, surface area) and the
type of cover.
To determine the stability of memory structure components, the
following criteria have been applied:
• Stability of structural characteristics in time and
• Type of cover.
2.4.1. Types of land cover
The land cover typology follows the classification of the cadastre.
Though the definition of parcel use has changed there in the
course of time, as the role of the cadastre was transferred from evidence
of sources for taxation purposes to evidence of ownership, it
retained the primary land cover classification. The Stable Cadastre
had a more detailed definition of land cover. For the purpose of this
land cover study is classified by the categories set for the present
cadastre (COSMC, 2007). This study merges certain cadastral categories
into more general types of gardens and grassland. The types
of cover are set as follows:
• Built-up areas: cadastral type of parcels with a building or a paved
surface.
• Gardens: cadastral type of parcels used continuously for growing
vegetables, flowers and other garden plants, usually for private
consumption, and/or parcels continuously planted with fruit
trees/bushes, usually in connection with residential and farm
buildings, and orchards.
• Grassland: cadastral type of grass-grown parcels used for hay harvesting,
grazing, or for future use but currently left uncultivated.
• Arable land: cadastral type of parcels used for regular growing
of grain, root-crops, forage-crops, technical crops and other