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Homogenization of Northern Belgian landscapes through centuries of reclamation, agricultural transition, and urbanization. <i>Nature Comm. 17(1)</i>: 1906. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68594-y\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68594-y</a>","BEntID":435845,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Nature Comm. 17(1)</i>: 1906. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68594-y\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68594-y</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"De Keersmaeker, L.; Roggemans, P.; Poelmans, L.; Priem, F.; Taillir, S.; Petermans, T.; Van Valckenborgh, J.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"De Keersmaeker, L. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"We quantify historical land-use with deep learning image segmentation (GeoAI), applied to tiled historical maps, and identify 3 successive drivers of long-term (1774-2022) landscape transformation in northern Belgium (13,800 km<sup>2</sup>). 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