Assessment of Peat Extraction Range and Vegetation Succession on the Baligówka Degraded Peat Bog (Central Europe) Using the ALS Data and Orthophotomap

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 14; no. 12; p. 2817
• Main Authors: Jucha, Witold, Mareczka, Paulina, Okupny, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 12.06.2022
• Subjects: airborne laser scanning; Airborne lasers; Bogs; Central European region; degradation; Ditches; Domes; Drainage; Drainage ditches; Drainage systems; Ecological succession; ecotones; Exploitation; Hydrology; normalized digital surface model; Peat; peat bog; Peat bogs; Peatlands; Pollutants; Remote sensing; southern Poland; Vegetation; vegetation height; Wetlands; Poland; Central Europe; Central European region

The Baligówka peat bog is one of the peat bogs of the Orawa-Nowy Targ Basin—the largest complex of wetlands in the Polish Carpathians. Its area has declined in the past as a result of drainage and peat exploitation, which caused a bad hydrological condition and it is gradually overgrown by non-peat...