Study on the relationship between the visual distance to homestead woodland and landscape cognition on dispersed settlement

This study focuses on the case of dispersed homestead landscape in which the relevance of visual distance and landscape cognition to a homestead woodland were examined. The study also aimed at clarifying the feature of landscape cognition of residents.From the results of the analysis, it was found that residents could recognize their own homestead woodland from a distance of 250m. The recognition of the landscape details in a homestead woodland is related to ‘a feeling of how close one is to a homestead woodland’. From the view point of boundary awareness, residents felt that a homestead was about 100m apart.