sustainability Article Recognizing Landscapes for the Purpose of Sustainable Development—Experiences from Poland Iga Solecka 1,* , Dietmar Bothmer 2 and Arkadiusz Głogowski 3 1 Department of Spatial Economy, The Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, ul. Grunwaldzka 55, 50-357 Wrocław, Poland 2 Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Ecology and Environmental Protection, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz, Theodor-Körner-Allee 16, 02763 Zittau, Germany;
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[email protected] Received: 17 April 2019; Accepted: 12 June 2019; Published: 21 June 2019 Abstract: Landscape identification forms a base for landscape management and sustainable land use policy. According to the European Landscape Convention, each Member State needs to recognize the landscapes as an essential component of people’s surroundings. Poland developed a method for landscape auditing that will be conducted for landscapes in the whole country. The identification of landscape units is based on landscape type characteristics and spatial data that is layered and analyzed in order to identify landscape units. In this paper, we aim to test the possibilities of automatic landscape identification. We take the assumptions designed for landscape identification for the needs of the audit. Based on the “Typology of Poland’s current landscapes”, we design a process to identify landscape units with the use of the aggregation of land cover data and multivariable analysis.