Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences
International projects
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| Časové a priestorové zmeny regionálnych štruktúr kultúrnej krajiny |
| Program: |
Medziakademická dohoda (MAD) |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. Šuška Pavel |
| Duration: |
1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014 |
| Urban sprawl mapping in Slovakia and Bulgaria based on an extended CORINE Land Cover nomenclature |
| Mapovanie zväčšovania zastavaných areálov na Slovensku a v Bulharsku s využitím rozšírenej legendy CORINE Land Cover |
| Program: |
Medziakademická dohoda (MAD) |
| Project leader: |
RNDr. Kopecká Monika PhD. |
| Annotation: | Urban sprawl represents one of the most significant landscape transformation with the increasing rate of negative impact on the environment (eg. soil sealing). Urbanization is one of the major environmental problems in the near future as the world's urban population is expected to double from 3.3 billion in 2007 to 6.4 billion in 2050 (UN Population Fund, 2007). The study of changes in urbanization is crucial for urban planning, environmental protection and resource management. Remote sensing data is one of the main sources of information for mapping the state and changes in land cover and land use, particularly related to urbanization.
The aim of this project is to investigate increase of artificial surfaces in selected study areas using multitemporal analyses of very high resolution satellite images (VHR). An extended CORINE Land Cover nomenclature will be developed to identify and describe changes of artificial surfaces. Apart from the results obtained by remote sensing data analyses of demographic and other statistical data related to regional development will be used to describe driving forces of the urban sprawl.
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| Duration: |
1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014 |
| Natural and human-induced geomorphological and sedimentary changes in the river system (with special regards to the SK-HU border section of the Danube) |
| Prirodzené a človekom indukované geomorfologické a sedimentárne zmeny riečnehio systému (so zvláštym zreteľom na slovensko-maďarskú pohraničnú časť Dunaja) |
| Program: |
Medziakademická dohoda (MAD) |
| Project leader: |
RNDr. Lehotský Milan CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project aims to investigate the recent geomorphic/sedimentary changes of the Danube River and its floodplain triggered by changes in flow regime due to putting the hydrotechnical constructions of the Gabčíkovo water work into operation in 1992 . These issues are going to be studied mainly downstream Čunovo dam up to the confluence of the old Danube channel with the trailrace canal on the both, Slovak and Hungarian sides of the Danube.
The research is aimed at estimating the rate of overbank sedimentation along the “new floodplain” of the old Danube based on landforms, lithofacial, land cover and vegetation succession analyses in order to understand the operation of the studied river system under changed hydrological regime. The investigation of the landform pattern, grain size analyses of floodplain deposits, their lithodynamic and structural records, complemented by the analyses of water level stages will enable to define the spatial as well as temporal variability of the geomorphic/sedimentary behavior of the studied river system and at the same time to answer the questions concerning the future trend in channel narrowing, floodplain roughness changes as important properties influencing flood water convey.
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| Duration: |
1.1.2013 - 31.12.2015 |
| Influence of investment and some related socio-economic processes on local and regional development in Poland and Slovakia |
| Vplyv investičných a vybraných sociálno-ekonomických procesov na lokálny a regionálny rozvoj v Poľsku a na Slovensku |
| Program: |
Medziakademická dohoda (MAD) |
| Project leader: |
RNDr. Székely Vladimír CSc. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the joint research project is to recognise, identify, explore as well as evaluate various investment and some related socio-economic processes and their influence in local, regional and national scale on living conditions, quality of life, social well being, economic growth, abilities of building ‘smart’ industries and preserving quality of environment. The task will be accomplished by careful analysis of both successful and unsuccessful examples of investments that took place in recent years (in context of additional financial support from European funds). Initially analysis of various types of investment processes (property investments, infrastructural investments, industrial/technological investments, etc.) and some related socio-economic processes will take place. This step will allow evaluating accomplished investment processes as well as recognizing positive and negative examples. Furthermore influence analysis of investment and some related socio-economic processes on human quality of life and quality of business environment (e.g. through quality evaluation of services of general interests for individuals and businesses) will be performed. |
| Duration: |
1.1.2013 - 31.12.2015 |
National projects
| Endogenous potential and exogenous factors of local and regional development in Slovakia |
| Endogénny potenciál a exogénne faktory lokálneho a regionálneho rozvoja Slovenska |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
RNDr. Székely Vladimír CSc. |
| Annotation: | In the last decades, intra- and interregional disparities in Slovakia have deepened. The dominant centralist conceptions of local and regional development that relied mainly on action of exogenous factors did not succeed in reducing or stabilizing the spatial disparities. One of identified causes was the insufficient analysis followed by inclusion of different local and regional specific features into the development strategies. The aim of the Project is to point to the significance of a decentralized approach to the development of localities and regions, with its typical traits that is identification, evaluation and mobilization of endogenous potential of the particular territory. We suppose the search for a balanced status between the rational use of two complementary spatial developmental approaches (bottom-up and top-down ones) is not only another option for the socio-economicgrowth of localities and regions but also a potential path to the reduction of spatial disparities and imbalanced quality of life. |
| Duration: |
1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014 |
| Flood risk of municipalities in Slovakia |
| Povodňové riziko obcí Slovenska |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
RNDr. Solín Ľubomír CSc. |
| Annotation: | Knowing flood risk level is the obligatory premise for efficient decision-making involved with flood control policy, strategy and allocation of finances into flood control measures. The aim of the project is to assess the flood risk of municipalities in Slovakia. The basis of the assessment is the analysis of attributes proper to floods and the vulnerability of economic, social and environmental system of muni-cipalities. The main attribute of floods taken into account in the project is the frequency of flood events. Economic vulnerability is represented by parameters concerning housing and fixed asset for economic sectors; social vulnerability is expressed by parameters associated with attributes of population, social status and ethnicity. Environmental vulnerability is expressed by parameters associated with pollution sources. The level of flood risk of the munici-palities in Slovakia is established by the combination of flood event frequency and vulnerability applying the method of multicriteria analysis. |
| Duration: |
1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014 |
| Natural and human-induced geomorphological and sedimentary changes in river system |
| Prirodzené a človekom indukované geomorfologické a sedimentárne zmeny fluviálneho systému |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
RNDr. Lehotský Milan CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project is aimed at research of natural and human-induced geomorphological and sedimentological changes in river systems in two large rivers (the Danube River, the Nile River), in selected gravel bed and wandering-braided river systems and two subterranean rivers. The long-term as well as short-term changes, human impacts on their morphological-sedimentary and land cover properties of riparian zone are investigated by using the multi-temporal analysis of remote sensed data as well as data obtained by field research campaings. The particular attention is paid to the research of geomorphic-sedimentary response to flood events. The project provides information on nature of rivers changes allowing assessment of rivers transformation intensity, and identification of their critical elements from the viewpoint of potential affect of human impact and consequences of floods. The project contributes to the conceptual modelling and forecasting of river behaviour as well as to their environmental management. |
| Duration: |
1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014 |
| Regional and spatial disparities in Slovakia; development in the last decade, the present status and consequences |
| Regionálne a priestorové disparity na Slovensku, ich vývoj v ostatnom desaťročí, súčasný stav a konzekvencie |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
RNDr. Michálek Anton CSc. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the Project is to research into the present level, developments and changes of regional disparities RD) and spatial disparities (SD), result of important processes that took place in Slovakia in the last decade. The Project will focus on capturing the changes and tendencies of disparities between regions and model territories that took place after Slovakia joined the EU. The subject is the assessment of the regional policy of cohesion of the European Union and its effects on the present status and development of both the RD and SD – convergence or divergence of regional and disparities in model territories. Disparity analysis and assessments will be carried out on different hierarchic spatial levels. The logical output on the level of region will be the analysis and synthesis of selected relevant aspects of RD and SD, classification of regions into types and identification of existing marginal regions. SD will be observed in model territories. |
| Duration: |
1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014 |
| Production, verification and application of population and settlement spatial models based on European land monitoring services |
| Tvorba, verifikácia a aplikácia priestorových modelov zaľudnenia a osídlenia na báze európskych služieb pre monitoring krajiny |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján CSc. |
| Annotation: | The progress in geoinformatics and remote sensing techniques boosted the production and usage of spatial datasets not only related to land but increasingly also to society. European Soil Sealing Layer (SSL) and European Population Density Grid (PDG) are among the most frequently used of these datasets. While SSL is detailed portray of built-up areas, PDG is a disaggregated population raster based on CORINE Land Cover
(CLC). The objective of the project is to validate SSL in Slovakia and to employ the validated SSL along with CLC in production of spatial models of population and settlement in Slovakia that are more accurate than PDG.
Preliminary versions of the models will be applied to the solutions of particular problems (e.g. urban and rural settlement delineation, areal interpolation methods assessment) in order to be verified and further improved. |
| Duration: |
1.1.2013 - 31.12.2015 |
| Selected geographical aspects of the environment in Slovak regions and the country as a whole in international context |
| Vybrané geografické aspekty vývoja životného prostredia Slovenska a jeho regiónov v medzinárodnom kontexte |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír CSc. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is the analysis of geographically relevant phenomena and processes connected with environmental changes in terms of sustainable development, nature protection, landscape management and increased quality of life on several hierarchic levels: international, national, regional and local. The sequences of steps is as follows: analysis of the state-of-art of the issue both in the national and international literature, preparation of the theoretical and methodological basis, updating of knowledge concerning the status and development of the environment through application of quantitative and qualitative methods, identification of economic activities and regions suitable for research. Subsequently developmental trends in the sphere of the environment and the nature, causes of changes that took place in the past decade will be identified based on topical data. The status and developments of the environment of the SR will be confronted with the international context using the international database and with regards to the international conventions. |
| Duration: |
1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014 |
| Changes of cultural landscape: analysis of extension of urban fabric and farmland abandonment processes applying land cover databases |
| Zmeny kultúrnej krajiny: analýza procesov rozširovania zástavby a pustnutia poľnohospodárskej pôdy aplikáciou databáz o krajinnej pokrývke |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján CSc. |
| Annotation: | Interests of society driven by the economic development and human sources represent the major forces behind changes of cultural landscape. The character and scope of changes though, depend on natural conditions. Physical condition of landscape and land use (LU) in particular time is recorded by remote sensing data. These data represent correct information sources for the analysis of the rate and spatial differentiation of two now dominant trends in the development of landscape: extension of urban fabric and abandonment of farmland followed by wasting. These processes are assessed based on the data concerning CORINE land cover (CLC) changes from 1990, 2000 and 2006 (CLC1990, CLC2000 and CLC2006), and other specified data derived from aerial images of built-up areas at the national and regional levels of Slovakia. |
| Duration: |
1.1.2013 - 31.12.2015 |
Projects total: 11
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