Abstract
Abstract. The coastlands are changing in the Southeastern European countries. Yet, temporal and spatial changes in natural-vegetated land, urban-vegetated land and agriculture-vegetated land use on coastal surfaces, respectively, are missing. The aim is to understand the changes in vegetated land on the coastal surface by retrieving spatial data from remote sensing using a new approach by reducing errors in data processed and by collecting data using surveys to understand the driving (abiotic and biotic) factors of vegetated land changes and land dynamics at regional level. These spatial and survey data are then to be employed at spatially explicit analysis to define driving factors, plausibly explaining spatial and temporal changes of vegetated land on coastal surfaces in the Southeastern European study region including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Montenegro and Slovenia for the last fifty years. The expected main result is a new methodological approach of remote sensing spatial data analysis by reducing data errors and by identifying driving factors of the changes in vegetated land. The findings may serve to understand the effects of land management and land use on the changes in vegetated land-use on coastal surfaces, and to potentially uncover the least disturbed vegetated land areas by human intervention for vegetation conservation.
Highlights
The low-lying coastlands are threatened by unsustainable use, by the future climate change consequences based on the findings of the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and by the future species extinction and biodiversity loss (IPBES)
The changes in land cover and use on the coastal surface is occurring in many parts of Southeastern European countries, while coastlands are of high importance for vegetation biodiversity
The research objectives are to identify the changes in vegetated land, separating natural vegetation from urban vegetation and vegetated-agricultural land and to identify dynamics of vegetated land changes and of driving factors explaining these changes in the coastal area of 61,637 km square presenting 41 % of the entire study region (Figure 1) for the last fifty years
Summary
The low-lying coastlands are threatened by unsustainable use, by the future climate change consequences based on the findings of the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and by the future species extinction and biodiversity loss (IPBES). The aim is to understand the changes in vegetated land on the coastal surface at regional level by retrieving spatial data from remote sensing using a new approach reducing errors in data processed.
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