Environmental Evaluation of the System of Protective Forest Plantations in Urban Landscapes Volgograd Agglomeration Using Gis-Technologies

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 224; no. 1; pp. 12036 - 12044
• Main Authors: Ivantsova, E A, Ovsyankin, R V, Matveeva, A A, Onistratenko, N V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Afforestation; Agglomeration; Degradation; Environmental protection; Forest protection; Landscape; Plantations; Reclamation; Road transportation; Urban environments; Woody plants
• ISSN: 1755-1307; 1755-1315; 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/224/1/012036

The article discusses issues related to the study of sanitary protection zones as the main natural barriers to reduce the impact of functioning urban enterprises, also studied the system of protective forest plantations located along linear objects (rail and road transport). At the present stage, a comprehensive ecological-forest-reclamation analysis of protective plantations is impossible without the use of GIS-technologies, which makes it possible to assess the degree of their preservation and assess their environmental protection function. Studies have shown that the territory allotted for the sanitary protection zones of selected enterprises as large polygons does not meet the requirements imposed on them, since they have a high degree of degradation. The state of the system of protective plantings along linear objects can also be assessed as satisfactor, and significant degradation of woody vegetation can be observed as a result of an increase in traffic load. According to the results of the research, we concluded that allow management decisions to be taken to restore the system of protective afforestation in urban landscapes of the Volgograd agglomeration.