HERCULES Labs - view thematic explorers of the Knowledge Hub.

HERCULES Labs

View thematic explorers of the Knowledge Hub.

The Cultural Landscapes Knowledge Hub serves diverse needs and interests. Discover it through our Labs. They allow for geospatial “storytelling”, where results are presented both for experts and non-experts.




Share Use the Hub to share your knowledge of landscape and landscape practices.


Understand/plan Use the Hub as a tool for visualising landsape practices and change.


Target policies Use the Hub as a tool for developing and applying targeted strategies for landscape management.


Engage Use the Hub as a tool for landscape dialogue and crowdsourcing data.


Detect Visualize and mark landscape changes as seen from the Sentinel-2 satellite data.


Browse through all Labs from the Cultural Landscapes Knowledge Hub:

Cultural Landscape Characterization

Cultural Landscape Characterization

Enables to explore cultural landscapes heritage, allowing users to create their own maps using three defining facets of cultural landscapes: landscape structure, management intensity, and value and meaning.
Future cultural landscape dynamics

Future cultural landscape dynamics

Integrates data of a model-based assessment of processes of change in cultural landscapes. Potential future threats to cultural landscapes at a European scale are evaluated. The data is made available for downloading.
Cultural Landscape Change

Cultural Landscape Change explorer

Presents a compiled timelines of cultural landscape change in five study landscapes, based on land use / land cover change analysis of maps and aerial images since mid-19th century. Different dates can be selected and compared with current maps.
Wild food availability in Europe

Ecosystem Services in EU

This explorer contains the available data on:

  • Shares data on wild food spatial distribution and demand and supply of pollination. Places of demand and supply of ecosystem services are made visible.
Landscape and Heritage Practices

Landscape and Heritage Practices

Collected data on Heritage Practice and Integrated Landscape Initiatives across Europe through an online survey. The results provide a platform for heritage and landscape practitioners across Europe to discover and share good practices.
Share your good landscape practices

SHARE YOUR GOOD LANDSCAPE PRACTICES

Landscape management is uniquely challenging in that it is embedded in environmental, economic, and social contexts. By sharing your work, you help other people to learn from your experiences in addressing these challenges, and you too can be inspired by the creative and insightful approaches others have found.
Local innovative initiatives

GUIDELINES FOR LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT

Shows the result of a Landscape Management Assessment of innovative landscape initiatives as well as biodiversity in European cultural landscapes. Stakeholders were engaged through online surveys.
Hercules study landscapes

HERCULES Project

Shows the case study results of this research and innovation project. HERCULES performs targeted case studies on dynamics and values of cultural landscapes. The Cultural Landscapes Hub was developed in the context of the HERCULES project.
Cultural Landscape Days

Cultural Landscape Days

Constituted a forum, established by the HERCULES project, to create dialogue and bring together people with different stakes and interest in their landscape. It encouraged people to take part in landscape stewardship.
Selection of Landscape Awards

Selection of Landscape Awards

This explorer contains the results of a few landscape projects: 3Water project, European Bee Award Winners, European Tree of the Year, Land and Soil Management Award.