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With a cultivated area of over 2x108ha, wheat is the largest crop worldwide by cultivated surface. For wheat crops, the production suffers loss caused by weeds, and depending on the weeding level, the fertilization level can surpass 50% (1). Weed management is just one of the technological components present in any crop technology. Given the biological particularities, wheat crop is mainly weeded with dicotyledonous species. The objective of this paper is the comparative evaluation of the classic method for determ...

This paper reviews the main transborder issues on the territory of Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) of principally associated with natural and human induced hazards involving waste contamination from extractive industries. The Soviet Union included 15 states that had unified political and economic system. In 1991, after the collapse of the USSR, on the territory of the previously united country, were formed 15 independent states, respectively new boundaries were shaped, and existing environmental p...

The management of construction waste it is at an early stage in urban areas and lacking in rural areas where this fraction is frequently uncontrolled disposed on public lands. Despite the fact some items of construction waste are considered inert for the environment (soil, concrete) it also contains hazardous items (paint additives, cans, and containers) or recyclables (plastics, metals, wood). Potential recovery of this waste stream is high if it is properly managed. The paper estimates the potential amounts of w...

Colours have a unique position among all the principles of map design and visualisation of spatial data. Colours are a part of map language, and they carry the information value. Also, colours are used for creating the hierarchy of map elements by distinguishing the important from the unimportant. Furthermore, colours are a part of the whole graphic design of any visualisation of spatial data. There is a huge number of papers focusing the theoretical basis of colour use in cartography and spatial data visualisatio...

The Plou?nice River (the Czech Republic) has been impacted by the uranium mining in the StrпїЅ pod Ralskem area mainly from 1971 to 1987. The extreme flood in 1981 contaminated the Plou?nice River system by uranium, radium and also by heavy metals. The pollutants are now deposited all over the floodplain downstream from the mining area. Other extreme flood in 2010 caused the remobilization of deposited pollution. This paper is focused on the spatiotemporal changes of the Plou?nice River between StrпїЅ pod Ralskem ...

Beginning with the statement of the World Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development from Rio de Janeiro (1992), the worldпїЅs countries have started to develop national policies for implementing the concept of sustainable development. The experiences of those years led to a more pragmatic approach of the sustainable development implementing policies. For the first time the European Union and United Nations also realized that without a qualitative and quantitative quantification of the objectives of sus...

Systematic cadastre is a work of great economic and social importance in any country. Determining the position of the land register boundaries of the lands on the basis of measurements. It includes description of buildings and land registry entries related to real estate rights, personal rights, acts, facts or legal relations connected with real estates and encumbrances or charges or how to exercise property ownership In the systematic cadastral are a number of steps that begin with the identification, measurement...

Atlas production is largely a joint work of cartographers and designers. By undertaking the process of atlas production as a GIT project, a team of collaborators might be developed to incorporate experts on GIS, remote sensing, spatial statistics, spatial databases and spatial analysts. Furthermore, when digital atlas production is designed as a web interactive application, the team is extended to include computer developers and web engineers. This paper explores a concept of student team work which integrates var...

The latest law in matter of property right, which aims to be a solution to solve the problems arising during the implementation of previous property laws, is Law no. 165/2013 concerning the measures to complete the process restitution, in the nature or equivalent, of the real estates abusively taken during the communist regime in Romania. The complexity of the previous laws regarding the restitution of properties abusively taken, as well as the changes produced upon them over the time, imposed the adoption of a ne...

The land cover changes of the area result from both nature-induced activities that are sometimes indirectly caused by human influence, and direct human-induced activities such as land use change, deforestation, city expansions, and other. Therefore, the land cover change can indicate climate changes of the geographic area as well as the change of the socio-economic factors. This study aims at analyzing the land cover change over the territory of the Republic of Croatia from 1990 onwards. The study is based on CORI...

Transylvania is one of the historical provinces of Romania, located within the central part of the country. This region is characterised by a marked ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious diversity. The main ethnic groups forming the population of Transylvania are Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Saxons, Swabians, Armenians, Jews and Ukrainians. Over time, the structure of TransylvaniaпїЅs population varied significantly in terms of ethnicity due to its political and economic conditions. The evolution in populatio...

The article presents a study on a geospatial distribution of Catholic sacred buildings within Volyn Oblast in Ukraine. A a map of geospatial distribution of Catholic Churches was carried out by a vector graphics editor пїЅCorelDraw X5пїЅ on the basis of architectural monuments list of national and local importance of Volyn Oblast in Ukraine. Was created a map of geospatial distribution of Catholic Churches within Volyn Oblast in Ukraine and has been calculated their quantity and index of percentage. On the basis o...

Around one quarter of the Romanian territory is covered with forests but the surface has been decreasing steadily due to increased legal and illegal logging and reduced efforts towards reforestation. This led to economic problems and uncertainties about the current stock and location of the Romanian forests. Very few empirical studies have been undertaken regarding this topic especially at the local level. Using data from 41 Romanian counties between 1995 and 2015, our paper aims to find the relationship between t...

The aim this paper is to demonstrate the disadvantages, causes by destroying defenses dams in the Danube meadow in the area Ostroveni пїЅ Corabia and to present the advantages of the ecosystems resettlement and natural baseline processes. In other words to demonstrate the need for renaturation, combined with modern methods of flood management risk, such as creating flood controlled enclosure. To achieve the goal of this paper have been created maps using ArcMap10.1 program. With their help it could conclude that t...

Existing EU standards for environmental protection are strictest in the world. Environmental policy helps to create a green economy, protect the environment, and take care of the health and quality of life of the people of the EU. The nature and content of environmental policy at the EU level was analyzed and the main requirements and trends in its development are specified. The analysis covered trends and potential areas for improvement of environmental policy and also the system of principles required to build t...

In this publication were presented the methods of designing the natural cultural skeleton areal structure of a set of certain landscape elements. The methods are based on extrapolation the statements of island biogeography conception to the field of conservation planning of the territory. The sites of wetlands located on the areas of пїЅwild natureпїЅ were taken in the capacity of areal elements. The methods suggest the formation of an optimal protective zone around every wetland. The size of the protective zone c...

In urban environment the local areas or neighborhoods are multidimensional phenomenon consisting of social, physical, political and economic aspects. The main goal of the neighborhood development is to create conditions for sustainable socio - economic and spatial policy implementation within the city administrative territory as well as to improve urban development planning and the quality of life. Population satisfaction with local public services such as open space is an important factor of sustainable spatial d...

The paper presents research conducted in the city of Tyumen as a large Siberian industrial center to understand the factors of quality of the social space development. The development of Russian cities is carried out, chaotically, but not systematically. The main tools for the development of urban spaces are territorial planning, urban policy, where the social factor plays a non-primary role. It was shown that urban space should meet the needs of residents, not only from the point of view of infrastructure and hou...

The Step Pyramid complex of Djoser in Saqqara visible today is a reconstruction performed by the main excavator, a French architect Jean-Philippe Lauer, who reconstructed key portions of the complex in the area of 15 ha. However, reconstructed walls, columns and other structures substantially differ in contrast from the Step pyramid itself, its architecture and system of underground tunnels. The existing structure is also not indicating the necessity of numerous attempts to rebuild the pyramid and most likely repr...

An important tool for managing natural resources is the country's tax system. The assessment of the compliance of the tax system with the country's economic, social and environmental policies is related to the implementation of the regulatory function of taxation. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the regulatory function should include: an assessment of the effectiveness of tax incentives for investment in environmental protection facilities; an assessment of the environmental efficiency of existing tax incentive...

According to the existing Directive 2002/49/WE the task of identification and forecasting of noise pollution in the urban environment are carried through acoustic maps technology. The parameters designated in acoustic maps are limited to the quantitative size of evaluation of the environment exposed to the effects of noise sources, e.g. LAeq, LDEN, Lnight. The determined values of these parameters are fundamental to the decision пїЅ making process in the terms of noise reduction. The results of undertaken research...

At present, vehicles with various technical characteristics and various equipment for medical purposes are used to provide assistance in hard-to-reach places. GIS allows for the timely selection of vehicles for medical care, taking into account the quality of the road network and travel on the ground, developing the optimal route of travel at the point of assistance and assessing options for providing transportation services, taking into account changing natural conditions. The article considers the problems of pr...

Brief introduction on the use of GNSS technology in various fields of activity (We open with an introduction regarding the use of terrestrial laser scanning technology in various fields of activity and its use in the study of soil erosion. Next we present the use of geographical information systems (GIS) in our country and their use in various fields, including the study of soil erosion. The use of GIS in the study of soil erosion and the creation of databases with the areas where the phenomenon can be found leads...

Brief introduction on the use of GNSS technology in various fields of activity (surveying, agriculture, environmental protection, etc.) and the use of the Romanian Position Determination System (ROMPOS) in determining the various types.Next we present the use of GNSS technology and ROMPOS, in general, and their usefulness in identifying parcels, especially in the acquisition of data necessary for positioning and delimiting them.The enhanced precision identification process leads to correct decisions in making paym...

The sustainable development is an important issue for our society. Thus, urban green spaces are a key element in order to assure a sustainable urban development. Although, most often they are associated as having only an aesthetic function, the urban green spaces perform important socio-economic and environmental functions. Therefore, ensuring the existence of a great number of green spaces within an urban area is one of the objectives of the new European policies for urban planning, taking into account the sustai...

Nowadays, there are plenty of High Tatras maps interested in the problematic of toponym. They contain more or less detailed nomenclature of High Tatras, but lots of this maps are incomplete or they lack Polish or Slovak part of High Tatras. One of the biggest problems in each toponymal map is incomplicity and missing complexity of data. The second biggest problem is the huge amount of data in relatively small area. The paper aims with the creation of compact toponymal map of High Tatras, not only for the area of S...

The fast pace at which decisions are made today, demand near-instant visibility for all the assets. In such a demanding environment, the management of a campus that hosts over 4000 students every year, in the most crowded city of Romania, is by all means a challenge. The emerging of the UAV technology provides insight into facility management, assuring asset inventories, spatial context and strategy for further investments and activities. The workflow described in this paper starts with acquiring data in the field...

A cadastre is an official information system that collects subject (ownership) and object (land, buildings) information that represent real world phenomena. Data sets concerning objects are created on the basis of measurement data which are susceptible to uncertainty, which canпїЅt be ignored. The paper presents the results of analysis of the uncertainty of parcel area determination, for which the vertexes coordinates are determined using RTN GNSS measurements and orthophoto. The influence of two factors on the ac...

Modern remote sensing techniques пїЅ passive and active - undergo considerable development in terms of spectral, temporal and geometric resolution of observations. The more and more sophisticated satellite observing systems are involved first in defence and geospatial intelligence tasks. Nevertheless apart from strictly military applications they can be exploited as пїЅdual-useпїЅ systems for civilian applications as well. The idea of this paper is to demonstrate, based on the literature review, how far high resol...

In this paper we want to highlight the advantages of creating and using forms for collecting data regarding the main changes in an urban environment, including cadastral and utilities data. These forms can be accessed from mobile devices and the reported results are analyzed in a desktop application. The users are able to send their location linked with attribute data. This approach can be used successfully in a working team or can be disseminated for interested community members, as a crowdsource possibility. Cro...

Variable rate application (VRA) of mineral nitrogen fertilizers (NF) represents one of the parts of the new farming practice пїЅ precision agriculture. VRA has been developed to address the spatial variability of fields and vegetation. The objective of this study was to assess the potential effect of VRA of NF on qualitative parameters of grain and grain yield in real farm conditions. Assessment of the potential effect of VAR of NF application was performed in Spearhead Czech Company which has been using VAR techn...

Various types of spatial data can be used in different parts of crisis management. We concentrate on support for evacuations. Analyses of the current situation show, that cartographic visualization can be used in different phases of an evacuation. We test the potential of open data in this paper. They can be used without legislative restrictions and for free. We choose the region around nuclear power plant Dukovany (Czech Republic) for the pilot study. Handbook for public in the case of radiation accident already ...

GIS Web Applications are very useful when it is needed to highlight important changes in time in a specific area. ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS include an embedded interactive application for designing and building web applications from a web map. The application works on desktop browsers, tablets, and smart phones without needing a plugin. WebAppBuilder has a lot of customizable themes and widgets that allow to deliver advanced functionality, such as high-quality printing, geoprocessing, editing, and search...

The urban sprawl has an important impact on the socio-economic evolution of a city as well as on its environment. A defining characteristic of the western European capitalist city, the urban sprawl was not often observed in the urban areas of the Eastern Europe. However, it has become more and more relevant after the 90s because the transition to the post-socialist era determined an increasing development of the sub-urban areas of the cities from the ex-communist bloc. This paper studies the case of the post-socia...

The main characteristics of geographic information systems (GIS) are large geospatial datasets and the necessity to share data among other GIS systems. In order to achieve this kind of interoperability it is necessary that the data is st ructured, encoded and described in standardized way and that the GIS architecture is based on standards. Standards in this field are based on the se rvice-oriented architect ure, where different types of tasks are implemented by different services. All these ta sks in collaboratio...

Since 1999 the application of GIS in Kosovo ha s provided valuable results. All of this research was based on contemporary methodol ogy on space research with GIS. In this case, within the inventory of the flora of Kosovo, is explored Common oak (Quercus robur L.), taking into account its biological aspect and modern methods of research with GIS. GIS has enabled the analysis of sea le vel height with the help of Digital relief model (Digital Elevation Model-DEM), expositi on, angle of fall and the correlation of n...

Tourism has vital importance for Turkish eco nomy as in other countries. Province of Antalya is one the most lively cities in Turkey in the context of tourism. Historical and cultural heritages must be officially registered and prevented from destructive effects of time. In this study, Manavgat district of Anta lya has been chosen as application area. Historical data determined by the Museum of Side and data not in official records have been gathered by literatu re scanning. Officially unregistered data was coordi...

According to trends in nowadays digital cartography and the spreading of mapping software among ordinary people, it is mo re and more important to transfer cartographical knowledge from cartographers to computers. This process is one of the most difficult tasks for object-oriented software designers. The design of a cartographical ontology could facilitate the creation of a cartography knowledge base as a basis for an intelligent system. Captured knowledge and the knowledge base can help map users to better unders...

Tourist trails are of great importance for mountain tourism and in recent years their situation came to the fore again in Romania too. Is typical of today’s tourists that they want to know more and more data regarding their destination, they want to visualize in a virtual world their selected places. Theref ore, a self-made analysis software were designed with the aim to determine the foll owing parameters: tota l length, rising and descending length over a given limit, mi nimum and maximum height, maximum eleva...

The seismic risk management geographic information system GEM (Gis Earthquake/emergency Management) aims to a ssist the authorities to be prepared for a major seismic event and prepare the appropriate actions to ensure high population resilience to such an event. The preparations includes urban planning interventions. The system is being designed at the Democritus University of Thrace and developed with use of CASE tools in GIS. It allows anal ysis of the current situation and appraising planning for improved resu...

The continuous deterioration of historical stone monuments mainly due to weathering is a growing concern. Precise documentation of the monument becomes very important for elaboration of sustainable monument re medy and preservation plan. The method elaborated by the authors allows to create a 3D model of the object with the further possibility to supplement and integrate into this model various visual and data information and systematically update it. This method was developed for the stone material surface weathe...

Worn out textures are considered as one of the main problems of Iranian cities. Apart from factors impacting the exhausted pa rts, this problem accelerates the urban difficulties in many cities and towns of Iran. It also is considered as a barrier for sustainable urban development. Worn out textures have created many problems for urban authorities as well as residents, so, it would be necessary to take them into account for more considerations. The present research is an attempt to recognize the worn out textures ...

This paper presents the process of digitalization of the Basic Geological Map with scale 1:200 000 of the Republic of Macedonia in software package Maplnfo professional 8.0 as a basis for preparing geodatabase for the Republic of Macedonia. The procedure of design and implementation of a GIS projec t for the Basic Geological Map of the Republic of Macedonia is given, starting with the design of the database table, selecting attributes and entering vector graphical objects. Model of geodatabase is developed using l...

Two of the largest bays on the west coast of Turkey, Izmir Bay and Gulluk Bay, are the focus for ongoing research involving the Ins titute of Marine Sciences and Technology of Dokuz Eylul University. Especially, in Izmi r, due to intense residential, commercial, and industrial use of the coastal areas, and there being numerous recreational, historic, natural and archaeological areas, the co astal water quality ha s become the most important asset in its coastal land use plan ning. Fishing and fish farming, maritim...

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hu rricanes, flash floods, volcanic eruptions and landslides have always cons tituted a major problem in many developing and developed countries. Flood disaster has very special place in natural hazards and is considered as a major natural hazard due to its devastating effects on the affected area. Its effected area is not bounded; it is an unusual event of river basin. Flood related problems and many other applications proved that these problems could be solved through plan...

In the south of the European part of Russi a natural parks are basic units of regional nature conservation framework. A full-fledged situational and diagnostic analysis of current condition of the territory of natural parks is available within the Regional Nature Conservation Geoinformational System (GIS), which is oriented at making efficient administrative decisions for nature manage ment. Administration model for specially protected natural territories must have a geoi nformational basis, i.e. it must use digit...

In recent years major advances in monitoring processes of sectoral control systems have been observed as well as the lack of interope rability of spatial info rmation systems. In the frame of the EuroGEOSS project inte roperability between Drought Management Centre for South-Eastern Europe (DMC SEE) and European Drought Observatory (EDO) has been developed. For interoperability processes open source tools and Open Geo-data Interoperability Specifications (OpenGIS) were used.

Geografical information system (GIS) is curre ntly the most used tool for analyzing and presenting spatial digital data of various sources. This article is focused on the application of GIS tools in the process of data processing for the needs of tourism informations. Processed spatial information of the tourism of fer the possibility to create different analysis and output s oriented primarily to the requirements of the user (potential tourists). Slovak Paradise is a popular tourist region and through the use of ...

Nowadays some novelties on computer technology and new softwares have exposed “modern cartography” term. Generally all existing data are recorded digital areas. At the study, raster /vector data transformations, obtaining of digital data, and evaluating and analyzing of new methods have been discussed and exemplified in detail. At the result, outcomes and suggestions of the applications will be illustrated.

Some compounds especially sulphur dioxide (SO2) is considered as typical indicators of the urban air quality. To inform decisions re garding, for instance, the protection of public health from elevated SO 2 levels in Balikesir, high-resolution maps are necessary. Therefore, the main objectives of this paper were to: (1) analyze th e spatial distribution of SO2 levels using geostatistical techniques; (2 ) incorporate this in formation in a GIS to produce accurate SO 2. Geostatistics provides useful technique to get...