Supplemental Material : Understanding and Mapping Natural Beauty

Our method is applicable for generating maps of scenicness at widely varying spatial scales. Figure 4 shows three examples of fine-grained high-resolution maps of scenicness from regions of different sizes around Great Britain. Figure 4 (top) shows a stretch of coast near Holywell, a coastal village in north Cornwall, England. Figure 4 (middle) shows a map centered over Caehopkin, a village in Powys, Wales. Caehopkin sits between Abercraf and Coelbren in the Swansea Valley and lies on the border of the Brecon Beacons National Park to the north. Figure 4 (bottom) shows a map of Greater London. Figure 5 and Figure 6 show additional maps of scenicness computed using our method, alongside several baseline approaches. In all cases, Cross-View Hybrid (CVH) combines overhead imagery and nearby ground-level images to more accurately identify scenic and non-scenic locations.