GIS analysis of land use changes: Case study: The Stara Pazova municipality, Serbia

Sanja Stojković

doi:10.5937/zrgfub1765295g

Abstract

This paper examines land use changes on the territory of Stara Pazova municipality with an aim to describe the evolution of these changes and future trend. Lack of the reliable data about history of land use changes, which is one of the main problems in the similar researches in Serbia, was solved by using CORINE (Coordination of information on the environment) land cover database. The collected information and GIS analysis conducted under created geodatabase enable insight in spatial and temporal dimensions of these changes, identification of change types and assessment of their intensities. The obtained results indicate that trends of land use changes for the period 1990-2000 and 2000-2012 are very similar and point to tendency of agriculture land reduction and increasing of residential and industrial zones.

Highlights

geographic information systems (GIS) application in this study enables and facilitates land use types visualization and its quantification, visualization of its changes and provides insight in spatial aspect of the land use changes in Stara Pazova municipality during period of 1990-2000 and 2000-2012
In order to increase representativeness and facilitate the analysis of land use changes in table 1. six types of land use is separated on the basis of CORINE land cover (CLC) land cover types and emphasis is placed on identification of agricultural and forest land, infrastructure systems, residential, industrial or commercial zones and water surfaces
The most represented type of the land use in Stara Pazova municipality during researched period is for the purpose of agriculture, residential and infrastructure systems, and follows the surfaces under forest vegetation and industrial and commercial zones

Summary

Introduction

Researches in the field of land use changes analysis are becoming more and more present due to the fact that changes occurred on the land surface affect the climate, ecosystem and its services (Brown et al, 2005; Chuai et al, 2016; Pocewicz et al, 2008; Sharma et al, 2012; Song et al, 2015; Sun and Li, 2017; Van der Sluis et al, 2016; Collection of Papers - Faculty of Geography at the University of Belgrade 65 (1a)Vigl et al, 2017). According to Srivastava et al (2012) land use analysis and change detection are vital for the comprehension of global environmental processes transformation. Land cover changes under human influences, and changes naturally, and that are the reasons way the state of land cover is very dynamic. Very high land cover dynamics creates challenge of its mapping and keeping track of. As the intensive economic globalization continues, the trend of land use changes, environmental pollution, land degradation, etc. As the intensive economic globalization continues, the trend of land use changes, environmental pollution, land degradation, etc. is growing, which makes the timely and reliable land cover information necessary in order to mitigate the negative impacts on the environment (Ban et al, 2015)

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