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- These Nepalese-German research programme "Tibet Himalaya" (1992-1998) deals with Settlement Processes and the formation of states in the High Himalayas characterized by Tibetan culture and tradition.
- Interest is focused on buildings, settlements and cultivated areas in use at present but also on deserted tracts as witness of the past along the south-to-north traffic routes between India and Tibet.
- The studies of the project are concentrating on Mustang district in northern Nepal.
- The project is interdisciplinary in nature, encompassing the humanities (Tibetology, archaeology, architecture, linguistics, ethnology, cultural geography) and the natural sciences (geoecology, geomorphology, dendrochronology) and is rounded off by the engineering disciplines (photogrammetry, cartography).
- The task of the cartographer in this research programme is to prepare thematic maps for different areas of interest containing only special research-related information.
- Maps at the scales of 1:200 000 to 1:1 000 were produced using space-born images, aerial image as well as results of terrestrial-photogrammetric and geodetic fieldwork.
- Furthermore 3-dimensional computer models were produced to visualize the omplex spatial and structural relation ofcave systems and ruined sites.
