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Dataset of Landscape Semantic Feature Points and Visible Locations of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region


LI Zhaohang1LI Renjie*1,2GUO Fenghua2,3XING Qian1
1 College of Geographical Sciences,Hebei Normal University,Shijiazhuang 050024,China2 Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences in Higher Educational Institutions in Hebei Province,GeoComputation and Planning Center of Hebei Normal University,Shijiazhuang 050024,China3 Institute of Geographical Sciences,Hebei Academy of Sciences,Hebei Technology Innovation Center for Geographic Information Application,Shijiazhuang 050011,China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2025.10.02.V1

Published:Oct. 2025

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Key Words:

visible location,landscape,semantic feature points,Great Wall of Ming Dynasty,Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei

Abstract:

Against the background of the construction of national cultural parks, landscape planning and design for the Great Wall needs to address the question of “where landscapes can be seen” from the perspective of resource value. The key lies in the expression of multi-dimensional semantics of landscapes and the calculation of visual locations. This study selects the Ming Great Wall in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and divides it into 22 sections based on historical continuity and administrative divisions. Using basic data such as DEM and cultural relics’ surveys, the spatial locations and multi-dimensional semantics of the Great Wall landscape are summarized and expressed through 3 types of feature points: functional facility points, morphological feature points, and equidistant encrypted points. A total of 53,454 feature points were extracted and semantically coded. Combined with DEM data, visual calculations and organization were performed for these feature points within a 10-km range, and multi-dimensional data of visual locations were established for each section through 3 dimensions: X, Y, and semantic feature points. Field verification in the Gubeikou section shows that the average coincidence rates of the number and content of feature points in visual locations are 76.37% and 70.69%, respectively, indicating that the dataset has high credibility. The dataset consists of 2 parts: (1) vector data (in .shp format) of wall elements and semantic feature points of the Ming Great Wall in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region; (2) visual location data (in .nc format) of the Ming Great Wall in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, with a resolution of 12.5 m. The dataset is composed of 38 data files with data size of 7.83 GB (compressed into 3 files, 2.00 GB).

Foundation Item:

Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (D2023205011); National Natural Science Foundation of China (41471127)

Data Citation:

LI Zhaohang, LI Renjie*, GUO Fenghua, XING Qian. Dataset of Landscape Semantic Feature Points and Visible Locations of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2025.10.02.V1.

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Data Product:

ID Data Name Data Size Operation
1 GWMBTH_VL_1.rar 762970.79KB
2 GWMBTH_VL_2.rar 702001.85KB
3 GWMBTH_VL_3.rar 638018.22KB
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