The Substantial Increase of Forest Cover in Central Poland Following Extensive Land Abandonment: Szydłowiec County Case Study

Nowadays, Poland is one of the European countries most affected by agricultural land abandonment (ALA). Though considered to be a negative phenomenon, ALA opens up several options for planning future land uses critical for biodiversity conservation or future carbon sequestration. So far, many studie...

Celý popis

Uloženo v:
Podrobná bibliografie
Vydáno v:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Ročník 14; číslo 16; s. 3852
Hlavní autoři: Shahbandeh, Mahsa, Kaim, Dominik, Kozak, Jacek
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2022
Témata:
Abandoned land
Agricultural land
agricultural land abandonment
Agriculture
airborne laser scanning
Airborne lasers
Biodiversity
biodiversity conservation
Carbon sequestration
Cartography
case studies
CORONA imagery
Datasets
Farmers
Farms
forest cover change
forest pattern
Forests
Land cover
Land use
Mountain regions
Mountainous areas
mountains
Pattern analysis
Poland
Remote sensing
Satellite imagery
Satellites
Topographic mapping
Topographic maps
Topography
Vegetation
vegetation height data
Wildlife conservation
Poland
Eastern Europe
Europe
ISSN:2072-4292, 2072-4292
On-line přístup:Získat plný text
Tagy: Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo vytvoří štítek k tomuto záznamu!
Popis
Shrnutí:Nowadays, Poland is one of the European countries most affected by agricultural land abandonment (ALA). Though considered to be a negative phenomenon, ALA opens up several options for planning future land uses critical for biodiversity conservation or future carbon sequestration. So far, many studies of ALA have been done in the mountainous areas in Poland, but less is known about the magnitude of ALA in other regions. In this paper we use the declassified CORONA satellite imagery (1969) to backdate the information on land cover and land abandonment from topographic maps from 1970s for the region located in central Poland and currently affected by widespread ALA. The information from archival materials is compared with current High-Resolution Layers and airborne laser scanning products, indicating that a forest cover increase of 23% was observed. The output of vegetation height analysis confirmed significant land use transformation from non-forest and ALA into forest area. Additionally, analysis of forest pattern change revealed that although forest core areas have increased since 1970, its share in total forest cover decreased due to newly established small forest patches. Our research shows the importance of archival remote sensing materials and indicates their role in understanding ALA-related forest cover change in Poland over the last 50 years.
Bibliografie:ObjectType-Case Study-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
content type line 14
ObjectType-Feature-4
ObjectType-Report-1
ObjectType-Article-3
ObjectType-Article-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs14163852