![Logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lennepkade/HistoricalMap/master/img/historical_logo.jpg "Historical Map Plugin for Qgis")
<img height="30px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lennepkade/HistoricalMap/master/img/dynafor.gif" alt="Dynafor"/>
<img height="30px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lennepkade/HistoricalMap/master/img/ensat.gif" alt="ENSAT"/>
<img height="30px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lennepkade/HistoricalMap/master/img/ut2j.png" alt="UT2J"/>
<img height="30px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lennepkade/HistoricalMap/master/img/sigma.gif" alt="Sigma"/>

# Historical Map, Qgis plugin 

Qgis Plugin for automatic extraction of forest from Historical Map, especially for [general staff maps (Carte de l'Etat-Major in French)](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_d%27%C3%89tat-Major)

Made By Nicolas Karasiak (aka <a href="http://www.lennepka.de" target="_blank">Nicolaï Van Lennepkade</a>) and Antoine Lomellini.

Based on the work of Pierre-Alexis Herrault, with the help of <a href="http://fauvel.mathieu.free.fr/" target="_blank">Mathieu Fauvel</a>.

# Need help ?
If you want a tutorial or some help using this plugin, <b><a href="https://github.com/lennepkade/HistoricalMap/wiki">please consult our wiki</a></b>.
# Data samples
If you just need some data samples, you can <b><a href="https://github.com/lennepkade/HistoricalMap/archive/documentation.zip">download them from our documentation branch (includes documentation)</a></b>.   
To go further you could have a look at our <a href="https://rawgit.com/lennepkade/HistoricalMap/documentation/html/index.html">documentation (generated by doxygen)</a>.

# To go further
## In english :
Herrault, P.-A., Sheeren, D., Fauvel, M., Monteil M., & Paegelow, M. Automatic extraction of forests from historical maps based on unsupervised classification in the CIELab color space. *16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science*, Lecture Notes in Geographic Information at the Heart of the Europe, pp 95-112, Springer series. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-00615-4_6#page-1


## In french :
Herrault, P.-A., Sheeren, D., Fauvel, M., & Paegelow, M. (2015). Vectorisation automatique des forêts dans les minutes de la carte d’état-major du 19 e siècle. *Revue Internationale Géomatique*, 25(1), 35–51. http://doi.org/10.3166/rig.25.35-51  

Herrault, P.-A.. (2015). Extraction de fragments forestiers et caractérisation de leurs évolutions spatio-temporelles pour évaluer l'effet de l'histoire sur la biodiversité: une approche multi-sources. *Géographie et aménagement. Laboratoire GEODE UMR 5602 CNRS / Laboratoire DYNAFOR* UMR 1201 INRA : Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, 410p.
