DOI: https://doi.org/10.14710/jil.22.1.270-278

Identifying Interesting Sceneries and Objects in A Tropic Forest Through Visitors Employed Photography

1Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University Indonesia, Indonesia

2Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University Japan, Japan

Received: 24 Feb 2023; Revised: 28 Aug 2023; Accepted: 12 Oct 2023; Available online: 21 Nov 2023; Published: 10 Dec 2023.
Editor(s): Budi Warsito

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Tropical Forest is a unique forest landscape character composed of vegetation with various altitude strata combined with other biotic and abiotic landscape elements. The combination of landscape objects produces a landscape character that is visually attractive to visitors. There are few references to forest sceneries and objects of interest to forest visitors, even though this information is important for forest tourism. This study identified tropical forest sceneries and objects of interest to forest visitors through photographs taken by visitors. The method used is Visitors' Employed Photography (VEP) combined with GPS tracking and artificial intelligence Google Clouds Vision API. In this VEP method, we invited 41 respondents to walk in the "Situ Gede Forest " and directly photograph interesting objects in the field. We obtained 1,206 photos from respondents containing the scenery and objects of the "Situ Gede Forest" and the location of the photo-taking points. The photos were labeled via Google Cloud's Vision API and clustered based on the Photo's label into 15 photo clusters using R Statistics software. The grouping results identified three sceneries and objects that interested the respondents: "View to the standing of trees inside the forest, woodland, or jungle," "Forest scenery with recreational activities and zoo," and "Body of water, edge of the body of water, waterway, and trees." Information on the three characteristics of tropical forest landscapes is beneficial in tropical forest management activities, where landscapes with these three types must be conserved and preserved in the interest of sustainable tourism forest.

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Keywords: sceneries; landscape; forest; VEP; GPS

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