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26 August 2020 Timeless land use changes in semi mountainous adjacent area to Athens
Vasileios C. Drosos, Evaggelia Siafali, Christodoulos Daoutis, Iordanis Kasapidis
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Proceedings Volume 11524, Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020); 1152415 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571704
Event: Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020), 2020, Paphos, Cyprus
Abstract
This paper aims at the study of the timeless changes in land use of the area of Anthousa. Its vegetation belongs to the Olea-Ceratonion area and consists mainly of pine forests and brushwood, as well as of cultivated vineyards and moreover of broadleaf, fruitful and ornamental trees. As far as is concerned, the area is a refuge for smaller members of the Mediterranean fauna. It is a growing city, keeping its air clean of pollutants, as it is built at the foot of Mount Pendelikon, in an altitude of 332 meters and 15 kilometers far from Athens center and 2 kilometers far from Pallini. It belongs to the Athens conurbation. The extent of the community amounts to 3.9 km2 . In order to investigate the changes that took place over the last decades in the region, the remote sensing method was used in conjunction with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the processing of the satellite images, as well as a study of the historical and socioeconomic development of the area. After an analysis of all the natural and anthropogenic factors that contributed to the formation and change of the land use and land cover of the area, useful conclusions were made indicating the degradation of the forest ecosystems and wooded land in transitional forest-bushy areas due to successive fires that have plagued the area, as well as the gradual development of the industrial and residential activity, which has led to an upward population development in the region.
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Vasileios C. Drosos, Evaggelia Siafali, Christodoulos Daoutis, and Iordanis Kasapidis "Timeless land use changes in semi mountainous adjacent area to Athens", Proc. SPIE 11524, Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020), 1152415 (26 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571704
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KEYWORDS
Vegetation

Earth observing sensors

Climatology

Satellites

Landsat

Satellite imaging

Geographic information systems

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