Changes of urbanised landscape identified and assessed by the Urban Atlas data: Case study of Prague and Bratislava |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division Forest, Nature & Landscape, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E — bus 2411, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium;2. Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;3. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balbao, Ancon, Panama;4. Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Centre for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Processes (TAP), Boeretang 200, BE-2400 Mol, Belgium;1. Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, 31-531 Kraków, Poland;2. Jagiellonian University Medical College, Department of Clinical and Environmental Allergology, Śniadeckich 10, 31–531 Kraków, Kraków, Poland;3. Department of Climatology, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-367 Kraków, Poland;4. Department of Environmental Monitoring, University of Rzeszów, Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601 Rzeszów, Poland;5. Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Silesia, Będzińska, 60 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland;6. Laboratory of Aerobiology, Department of Systematic and Environmental Botany, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznańskiego 6, 61–614, Poznań, Poland;7. Department of Environmental Biology, Public Health Office, Cesta k/nemocnici 25, 975-56 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia;8. Department of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy, Medical University of Łódź, Pomorska 251, 92-213 Łodź, Poland.;9. Department of Stratigraphical Geology, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Wrocław;10. Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20–950 Lublin, Poland;11. Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Felczaka 3c, 71-412 Szczecin, Poland;12. National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, 56, Pirogov Street, Vinnytsia 21018, Ukraine;13. Paediatric Department, Allergy Unit, Masaryk University and University Hospital Brno, Jihlavska 20, CZ–625 00 Brno, Czech Republic;14. Department of Botany, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Révová 39, 811 02 Bratislava 1, Slovakia;15. Department of Botany, Biological Faculty Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Kyryla Mefodiya Street, 8, Lviv, 79005, Ukraine;1. MicroStep-MIS, Čavojského 1, 841 04 Bratislava 4, Slovakia;2. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina F1, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia |
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| Abstract: | Identification, analysis and assessment of changes in the urbanised landscape, one of the most conspicuous transforming parts of earth surfaces, has become the topic of numerous research projects. However, there is still a lack of compatible data suitable for the generation of topical information about the urbanised landscape and its changes at different scales. An important contribution in this sense is the Urban Atlas (UA) Project pursued under the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)/Copernicus Land (GIO land) Programme auspiced by the European Commission. The aim of this study is to document, examine and compare land use/cover change (LUCC) of the LUZs (Large Urban Zones) of Bratislava and Prague in 2006–2012 by means of the UA data and show how these changes are captured in official statistical data. Results confirmed the present trends in modern industrial cities dominating by transforming the agricultural land into residential and industrial areas. Dispersion of the urban fabric into locations previously used for agriculture was mostly widespread in LUZ Prague (1,718 ha). This trend has also been partially confirmed by the change of agricultural land in favour of construction sites, the most pronounced one in LUZ Bratislava (580 ha). Assessment and comparisons of LUCC changes of LUZs Bratislava and Prague proved that combining the UA data and official statistical data has a great potential for insight into the dynamics of the urbanised landscape of Europe. |
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