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The aim of this paper is to study and classify the types of shores of the Alakol lake according to the prevailing exogeodynamic processes and recreational conditions for planning various types of recreational activities. Coastal classification was carried out using the methods of decoding satellite images, field monitoring studies, analysis of archival stock materials, including geomorphological, geological and topographic 1: 200 000 scale maps. Criteria as genesis, age, lithology of soils, the predominant type of...

Vietnam has been developing rapidly in the direction of a market economy, a strong economic development, an industrialization and modernization process is taking place, and it is increasing population. Quickly created new demands on land. Besides, the development of agriculture must also be a priority to ensure the issue of "Food security". Agricultural land fund is declining due to the development of industries and services, along with infrastructure development and desertification of land. This is an indispensab...

Environmental safety has long been a much-discussed topic around the world. There are various local, state or even global organizations whose goal is to ensure environmental safety on the planet. Environmental security is also directly linked to environmental crime, which maps and punishes citizens who harm nature in any way. Each country has a different set of perceptions of environmental security and crime. In the Slovak Republic, there was a change in its understanding in 2018, if a proposal was submitted to re...

Digital land registration is a trend towards improving the effectiveness of a number of standards in the field of land databases and land management in general. Like smart life, the development of digital technologies in land registration is also very important, especially in the digital age, because land is an extremely valuable resource. Today, the use of information technologies in the inventory is an important direction and a necessary condition for achieving the goals of sustainable development. The use of in...

The problem of the environment is becoming more and more pressing. The economic evolution of the world has led on the one hand to wellbeing, but on the other hand, has not taken into account Natural Resources. Sustainable development is on the agenda of all countries and represents a challenge for a return to green values. The European Union has sustainable development as one of its priorities. However, all this is not possible without proper education. The EU and national governments have set clear targets to gui...

The advantage of countries with unique tourism resources is enhanced by a well-thought-out and focused innovation policy of state and regional organizations, which allows creating unique, attractive tourist offers that provide the state with a competitive advantage in international tourism. When researching the tourist potential of the territories and developing programs for their development, specialists have to deal with a large amount of information characterizing various aspects of space. An indispensable mean...

One of the intensively developing complex scientific areas that finally took shape in the second half of the twentieth century is the study of the Earth and planets from aircraft and space vehicles. In the development of remote sensing, one of the most characteristic features of the genesis of science as a system of natural and technical knowledge of recent decades was manifested - the synthesis of various sciences. A retrospective analysis shows that remote sensing is at the intersection of sciences and various b...

Historical mapping of landscapes shows the characteristics of the relationship between man and landscape in certain chronosections and gives the opportunity to analyze and reconstruct the dynamics of nature management, environmental situations and the anthropogenic evolution of landscapes. An analysis of the development of the relationship between man and specific landscapes, studies of the dynamics of nature management of the old habitable territories are currently impossible without landscape-historical mapping ...

Hydrogeological maps are the main form of graphic representation of the hydrogeological studies results and enable various areas to be distinguished according to their hydrological character in relation to the geology. Geological sections reflect the most important characteristics of the geological structure to depth and have their own legend. At the same time, the hydrogeological section reflects the geological structure and hydrogeological conditions of the site along the established direction (section line), wh...

It is no longer a novelty that for the socio-economic development of the society in which we live, the main resource is represented by information. Of the data and information that society faces on a daily basis, most have spatial reference. Thus, the field of Geographic Information Systems has become an interactive way of viewing and accessing the components of the geographical environment. For the management of natural disasters, a multi-temporal spatial data is required. Satellite remote sensing is the ideal to...

The operation is based on the identification of the working area on the old land book plan. This includes the topographic numbers of the area where the building is located and all representative details, namely water courses, roads, road intersections as well as other linear elements well established in time. On the old land book plans, each plot is highlighted with a distinct topographic number, topographic number that is entered in the land register and corresponds with a land book. The old land book plan was dr...

The article attempts to explain different impacts of border effect on different types of borders and the question of whether the border effect has a greater intensity at the national border than at the border between the regions of one country and how big this difference is. The hypothesis was tested on a case study of the Liberec region, located in the Czech Republic at the border with Poland and Germany (part of Euroregion Nisa ? Neisse ? Nysa). For quantifying the border effect, the gravity model of spatial int...

Waste management and treatment is an important way to combat environmental pollution and contribute to improving human health because waste, air, water and soil pollution contribute negatively by increasing the level of environmental pollution considering also the high level of urbanization and living standards nowadays. Many countries in the world face problems that arise as a result of poorly managed waste and Kosovo is one of them. Waste generation increases with population growth Kosovo has an area of 10,905.2...

The article shows the stages of creating an interactive map of tourist resources of the Akmola region by using Web-technology. The main tourist resources of the region and methods for their assessment were determined. The tourist resources of the region are represented by natural (geological and geomorphological, climatic, hydrological, botanical), cultural and historical, also socio-economic resources. Evaluation of geological resources was carried out by using the cartographic method (the cartograms mode). To as...

A comparative analysis of large-scale soil maps and cartographic materials of precision farming systems is carried out. Soil maps are created by traditional methods based on ground-based surveys, desk-based decryption of topographic maps and remote sensing materials. Cartographic materials of precision farming systems are represented by maps of stable intra-field heterogeneity of soil fertility. Maps of stable intra-field heterogeneity are based on the analysis of big satellite data for 35 years. Comparison showed...

Organic production is an overall system of farm management and food production that combines best environmental and climate action practices. Although various research studies estimate that the demand for organic products will increase in the world, farmers are reluctant to switch to this more environmentally friendly way of farming. In Latvia, organic farming developed rapidly after joining the EU in 2004 owing to the support policies implemented by the European Union (EU) and Latvia. In 2004, there were 1043 cer...

Organic production has become a highly specialized agricultural system, which requires specific professional education, knowledge and technologies. The global demand for organic products is projected to increase in the future. In Latvia, the output of organic agricultural products continues increasing, yet the current output as well as the growing processing and sales capacity is not able to meet the demand for organic products by consumers, which is expected to increase over the next years. Therefore, the aim of ...

This paper seeks to analyse the prospects of locally grown soya in substituting imported soybean meal used in pig feeding in Latvia. Soybean meal is a superior source of protein in compound feeds due to its high protein contents and amino acid composition, but the EU is vastly dependent on the import of plant proteins, with the imports of soya for feed dominating. Latvia also imports considerable quantities of soybean meal that is close to the total production of local protein plants. Owing to potential economic b...

Two commonly used programming languages in geosciences are R and Python. Both languages come with inherent advantages and disadvantages. While Python is a general-purpose language with a readable syntax, R is built by statisticians and encompasses their specific language. In contrast with more nominative and static programming languages, like C++ or Java, both R and Python are heavily used in non-informatics disciplines, due to their relative ease of use. Notwithstanding the lower performance of both languages com...

The dynamics of oil production growth observed in the world is conditioned by intensification of oil resource development related to hard-to-recover fields, particularly, shale oil recovery that has allowed for the USA to become a leader in the world production. The common petroleum and gas production technique is hydraulic fracture treatment, which has become an issue of public concern as to its environmental safety. There is an ambivalent attitude towards this technology in the world. In some countries it is for...

Greenhouse gas emissions are high among global environmental issues, which is also true for Russia. Based on an analysis of government reports on the state and environmental protection of the Russian Federation and on the state and use of the subsoil of the Russian Federation, it has been established that over the past five years at least 70% of greenhouse gas emissions in Russia account for the fuel and energy complex. Significant reductions in the emissions of these gases in industry are very problematic due to ...

The main difficulties nowadays in Bulgaria in agricultural land governance, land administration and land management stem from weaknesses in the legal framework. To this can be added the historically accumulated lack of interest in land stewardship and the inherited soil degradation processes. Nowadays chaotic land use does not provide territorial conditions for taking advantage of modern agricultural technologies. The socio-economic development requires complicated interaction between the private, state, municipal...

In modern society, in most areas of activity, information technologies are actively being introduced, which has been facilitated by their powerful development over the past decades. The development of the technical equipment of the modern army, the increasing preponderance towards information wars, led to the fact that the defense sphere was no exception. Most of the important information technologies used by the military are based on means of processing digital information about the terrain and methods for collec...

With the development of space and information technology, emergency monitoring using satellite data is gaining tremendous relevance. If we take into account the area of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2.7 million km2), there is an urgent need to create a unified space monitoring system for the most priority natural and man-made disasters. This article discusses the space monitoring system, its composition and functional diagram of the basic elements of the system and remote access services to the resources and results...

The Vltava River and its riverine landscape has had a significant importance for the Czech nation, culture, economy and transport for centuries. The river itself, landscape and life of people tightly connected with Vltava have undergone massive changes which can be revealed from the old maps, historical photographs, archival documents and also personal testimonies. The main aim of the project is to show the vanished face of the river depicted on the beautiful old maps and photographs via modern cartographic method...

The landscape perceived as a physiographic complex is a theoretical concept adopted in some Eastern European countries and former USSR states. According to this notion, the landscape is a spatially defined fragment of the geographic sphere, a genetically uniform geo-ecosystem, having definite resource potential and transformed to a certain extent by humans. Pursuant to these ideas, the landscape comprises a mosaic of interlinked, hierarchically organized sub-systems, implying for taxonomic subordination of the phy...

Schools and universities of independent Ukraine are constantly developing the technique and skills of using visual teaching computer methods. Important, in this sense, is the use of GIS in various fields of knowledge. At the moment, a significant number of academic disciplines in Ukraine relate to the use of GIS technologies not only in geography, but also in other areas, such as architecture, ecology, etc. Such academic disciplines as ?Historical Informatics? and ?Geoinformation Systems? are included in the curri...

The objective of the study is to visualize the Vltava River valley in the area of Kamyk nad Vltavou. The workflow involves the georeferencing and vectorization of map data in ArcMap. Based on this processing, 3D objects are procedurally modelled in the CityEngine programme. The resulting 3D objects are complemented with a photogrammetrically created model of the Kamyk Reservoir. The results are presented in the form of map applications. This study aims to present the workflows already used in the project and the p...

Local latitude is formed in the North-South with the beginning at characteristic 290 points at the source of the Irka River, the river itself is in a rectangle 23.89 minutes long (in latitude) and 18.89 minutes wide (in longitude). The starting point at the source of the river is given a zero rank. The purpose of the article is the analysis of asymmetric wavelets of changing one coordinate - local latitude reduced to the Irovka River from source to mouth. After identifying the universal wave equation, 25 terms wer...

Forest fires consist a continuous threat for Greece and Mediterranean countries and one of the most serious environmental hazards. Nowadays, the perspective of forest opening up as being an important preventive measure of forest protection, which is a basic pillar of a multipurpose forestry system of the Greek Mediterranean mountains, is gaining ground. The public forest complex in the region of Vria - Ritini of the Pieria Prefecture has been selected as the research area. The present investigation seeks to captur...

This article justifies the importance of using geo-information technologies for the analysis of the core-periphery dependencies at the regional level. A conceptual analysis of scientific studies on the centre-peripheral structures of regional economies is carried out. It is shown that under the influence of the factors of globalisation, Russian regions are becoming economically fragmented, are demonstrating a deepening of peripherality. At the same time, the preparation of proposals for regional social and economi...

The studies for Recent Crustal Movements by the aid of space geodesy techniques are integrated into the researches on the Earth?s crust dynamics, as a reflection of the complex geodynamic phenomena that occur in the crust and in the subcrustal lithosphere. In addition to the fundamental nature, the research in this field presents a practical characteristic, competing alongside geology and geophysics to the shaping of new energy sources or solid mineral substances, to the determination of the soil stability degree ...

Investment environment is crucial for countries to attract investors and for economic growth. Baltic States regained independence in early 90-ties, their sizes are comparable and after almost 30 years as independent countries, it is substantial to judge their investment environment and lessons to learn from each other to ensure long-term sustainable development. The paper analyzes and compares investment environment among three Baltic States. The aim of the paper is to determine current investment environment of t...

The current article draws a comparison between the 1970 Stereographic projection and the Double-Stereographic projection implemented in ArcGIS under the name ?Stereo 70?. The former map projection is currently being used in Romania for the execution of geodetic, topographic, photogrammetric and cartographic works. It involves formulae with variable coefficients obtained through Taylor serial development in order to convert geographic coordinates into Cartesian coordinates, while the latter projection uses closed-f...

In the context of global confrontations in which international energy markets are in a complex transition period, on several dimensions: technological, climate, geopolitical and economic, the energy sector is the biggest challenge and concern, not just at European level, but also globally with profound influences on the competitiveness of the economy, the quality of life and the environment. The current legislative framework in Romania on energy sources encompasses the transposition and implementation of European ...

The activity of S.C. Agrobirkenbach SRL started in 2010, following the lease of an area of 183 ha. In the following years, arable land was added in the same area, both in the form of lease and purchase, reaching an area of 831.68 ha in 2015. Out of this area, 80 ha are owned by the company and the difference of 751.68 ha is held as a lease. The present paper aims to make a contribution through the use of modern technologies to the optimisation of area monitoring (lands cultivated with different crops). The agricul...

GIS-technologies in hydrogeology facilitate transformation of methods of cartographic works. At the same time, it is necessary to provide methodological recommendations and guidelines for presentation of geographical features on the digital hydrogeological maps. The hydrogeological maps are constructed on the results of the hydrogeological research with due consideration of geological conditions of the region, aquifers and aquifer systems, aquicludes, linear structural elements and other data. This article is abou...

The article is devoted to the issues of industry environmental self-control legal nature which is traditionally considered one of the forms of environmental control by the Ukrainian environmental law doctrine. The urgency of improving the efficiency of law in this area is due to the authors` contention, according to which environmental control is one of the most promising guarantees for ensuring environmental safety of the environment and human beings by preventing and minimizing the negative impact of environment...

Presently, most electronic navigation charts (ENC) are vector format maps based on the S-57 data model. This model uses the descriptive and spatial characteristics of bodies of water to create hydrographic information which can be used to solve such problems as: marine traffic monitoring, vessel route planning, maritime dangerous situation detection, etc. This paper presents an approach to maritime safety monitoring on the basis of intelligent GIS technology. GIS-oriented systems are often used for maritime safety...

This paper focuses on the capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to develop databases that support alternative tourism and, in particular, wine tourism in Bulgaria. The main task of the paper is to collect and integrate existing public and open-source graphical and attribute data. We use GIS tools to create a database, an online register, and an interactive map of wineries and wine houses according to Bulgarian laws and tradition. We create a specialized spatial GIS database containing administrative...

Production of energy in Poland is still based on traditional energy sources, such as: hard and brown coal. However, depletion of fossil fuel resources and the problem of excessive emission of carbon dioxide cause that the interest in renewable energy sources (RES) grows. In the recent years awareness of environmental damage caused by conventional energy has increased and a membership in the European Union was an additional stimulus for restructuring of the Polish energy sector. Therefore, the concept of renewable ...

Soil erosion is a natural process that models the land surface, building large geological ensembles and erosion relief from the most trivial to the most obvious forms of erosion that gives the characteristic note of geographical landscapes. Subjected to a continuous disintegration, fragments of rock and fine particles of soil are detached and transported by the movement of diverse masses of material: blown or taken from rainwater, and then transported by streams and rivers and finally submitted along river valleys...

Correct application of nitrogen fertilizers in crop management on arable land has high importance both from economic and environmental point of view, mainly in the condition of higher spatial variability of farm fields. One of the solutions could be a variable rate application (VRA) of nitrogen fertilizers based on the management zones, which addresses site specific changes in soil properties and crop requirements. The main aim of this study was to analyze the spatial variability of two fields from crop yield maps...

At a global scale, climate change generates extreme events which are more and more dangerous for society. Extreme hydrological and geomorphological phenomena are one of the most common causes of human life loss and material damage as a result of the manifestation of natural hazards around human communities. Floods sometimes cause irreversible damage or completely destroy areas with cultural heritage sites. In Europe, floods are affecting annually a great number of cultural heritage sites or buildings, which lead t...

Most cities in Romania, faced in the post-communist period with changes in the dynamics and functional structure of the city. The transformations after 1990, in terms of territorial planning, reconversion and economic policies, have led to important decisions regarding the industrial platforms. Industrial reconversion is a natural stage in urban evolution in most Eastern European countries with an unstable or very dynamic economy. The post-communist period is marked by the development of services and the regressio...

Geo-questionnaires are increasingly frequently used for geo-referenced studies. Their results can provide the basis for the GIS multi-criteria analysis model, and particularly for the determination of the spatial weights of criteria significance based on proximity adjusted preferences. In the developed method, a ranking of criteria was created based on the results of a geo-questionnaire. The determined weights of criteria significance were then spatially varied based on the analysis of locations indicated in the g...

Starting with 2008, Romania decided to reduce the hail damage over the agriculture crops in an active way, adopting legislation that allows the use of special rockets to fight hail. The system has now, five units of hail suppression and the increase of precipitation with 68 launching points, distributed around the country and the main aim is to protect valuable crops. The present paper is trying to emphasize which are the land cover categories that benefit from this system if the initial purpose is reflected. We h...

Moldavian Plain is a region in Romania, with a high number and a great variety of historical monuments. At the same time, is a regi on who suffered strong transformations in the post post-communist period from all points of view. The present paper aims to e valuate the effects of socio socio- economic and political change changes on heritage sites conservation and to combine these results with the natur al risk assessments in order to obtain a map of Heritage sites at risk in Moldavian Plain. We want to focus on r...

The purpose of the work is to prezent a way in which can be hierarchized the investment projects in accordance with the criteria established by the international financiers based on the Multi-criteria Analysis (MCA). The MCA method is a sound basis for the investment decision-making when it is designing a project proposal. In this research we are used the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) process of hierarchy the investment projects that can be applied as an interactive method of the multi-criteria analysis. Thus, ...

Over the 21 century, the analysis of human capital has taken on a progressively more central role in discussions regarding the growth and success of nations and regions. The systematic development of human resources has for some time been an important consideration for national policy-makers throughout much of the developed world. Human resources, traditionally known as labour, are vital in order to support and ensure continuous regional economic growth. Human resource development (HRD) refers to the stock of prod...