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USE OF SATELLITE IMAGES AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF BULGARIA

V. Vassilev, P. Milenov

Abstract

The Environment, Agricultural and Urban management is of valuable importance for Bulgaria, because of the following: п‚· Bulgaria is at transition period now with rapid changes in all fields related to environment, agriculture and urban; п‚· The adoption of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU by Bulgaria will require precise planning of the agriculture which include knowledge about the soil types and structure, relief characteristics, crop and field statistics, yield forecasting, pests management and other all of which require use of spatial data; п‚· The fast degradation of the obsolete industrial installations, rapid development of the new facilities, the enlargement of new building districts and tourist resorts creates, if not well managed, considerable risk for the environment; п‚· As a rule, the administrative control mechanisms react with considerable delay to the present environment problems and changes; п‚· The decision makers could be facilitated by the use of modern technologies such as remote sensing and GIS for better management of territories. The present paper present some practical examples from the ReSAC projects on the use of earth observation data integrated together with vector data into the GIS databases for management of territories in Bulgaria.

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