Land cover changes in Slovakia 1990-2006 related to the distance from industrial areas and economic development

Rok, strany: 2014, 3 - 20

Changes of land cover in Slovakia around the industrialized patches were determined. We have used the available Corine Land Cover (CLC) maps from 1990 and 2006 in vector format converted to grid form with cell size of 5 × 5 m and the third level of CLC legend coding. To examine land cover changes in the closest vicinity of industrial patches two adjacent buffers with a width of 1 km around the extracted industrial patches were constructed. Changes in the area of landscape features were evaluated as the area percentage for each land cover class. We have calculated selected landscape indices of land cover for both time horizons using FRAGSTATS 3.3. Fourteen types of land cover changes were defined to analyse trends in the three landscape segments. Evaluation of the trends was carried out using the raster calculator module by the addition of raster layers of different periods. Comparison of the structure of land cover and changes in the close surroundings of industrial areas with those in remote landscape more than 10 km from these areas proved that the strongest trends in these areas are both, the extensification and intensification of agriculture and the afforestation. On the other hand, in remote landscape there is a predominance of afforestation over the intensification and extensification of agriculture. Trends of industrialization and urbanization have been declining in relation to the increasing distance from the industrial patches.

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Liga, J., Petrovič, F., Boltižiar, M. 2014. Land cover changes in Slovakia 1990-2006 related to the distance from industrial areas and economic development. In Geografický časopis, vol. 66, no.1, pp. 3-20. 0016-7193.

APA:

Liga, J., Petrovič, F., Boltižiar, M. (2014). Land cover changes in Slovakia 1990-2006 related to the distance from industrial areas and economic development. Geografický časopis, 66(1), 3-20. 0016-7193.