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JoEG Volume 1 (2008) Issue 1-2
Extraction of digital surface models from CORONA satellite stereo images
Abstract:Satellite images can be utilised for observing surficial changes, especially efficient in the monitoring of larger areas. The comparative analysis of high resolution images from earlier periods with recent data can provide insight in the scale of changes in topography, and with meteorological, hydrological and other historic records, can lead to better understanding and more reliable modelling of the predominant processes causing mass movement. More accurate morphometric and visual analysis of the topographic changes is possible using digital surface model (DSM), which can be obtained from satellite stereo images. In this paper, the authors evaluated methods of creation digital surface models obtained from satellite images from the CORONA program in monitoring surficial mass movement processes in the Fruška Gora mountain area, in the southern part of the Vojvodina province in Serbia. This area is of particular interest because of its favourable geographic location, rich geo- and cultural heritage and increasing demand for exploitation, which results in greater impact of natural hazards. The CORONA images were chosen because of good availability of high resolution coverage for the whole area from the period of past four decades.Manuscript:References:Altmaier A. – Kany C. 2002. Digital surface model generation from CORONA satellite images.ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing 56: 221-235.
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Abstract:The effects of globalisation are becoming obvious not only in the world economy but in natural processes as well. Increase of deterioration of natural conditions result in more and more decrease of land and water resources. Some experts even suggest that the changing climate of the next several decades can result in the transformation of the natural landscape. Human activities, global and regional changes of climate and land use destroy the ecological environment, which also make the service function of the local ecosystem damaged constantly. We can improve ecological security of an area through regional land use pattern opti-mizing. The physical geographical consequences of aridification might be described through the decrease of ground water level, the change of the biomass quantity and quality. Their spatial and temporal variation may reflect the intensity and strength of degradation. Remote sensing is one of the best tools to follow these processes, applying different databases. Spatial analysis of the gained information may help us to delineate the areas potentially endangered by even a minor climate change.Manuscript:Floodplain aggradation caused by the high magnitude flood of 2006 in the lower Tisza region, Hungary
Abstract:The area of floodplains in the Carpathian Basin was dramatically reduced as a result of river regulation works in the 19th century. Therefore, the accumulation processes were limited to the narrower floodplains. The aims of the presented study are to determine the rate of accumulation caused by a single flood event on the active, narrow floodplain of the Lower Tisza and to evaluate the relations between the aggradation, flow velocity during the peak of the flood and the canopy. The uncultivated lands in the study area cause increased roughness which decreased the velocity of the flood, influencing the rate of aggradation. The highest flow velocity was measured on points where the flood entered to the floodplain and at the foot of the levee. These points were characterised by thick (over 50 mm) and coarse sandy sediment. In the inner parts of the floodplain flood conductivity zones were formed, where the vegetational roughness was small. In the inner parts of the floodplain the rate of aggradation was influenced by the geomorphology and the vegetation density of the area.Manuscript:Changes of cross-sectional morphology and channel capacity during an extreme flood event, lower Tisza and Maros rivers, Hungary
Abstract:When examining the characteristics of individual floods Hungarian researchers primarily investigate hydrological and hydraulic processes, whilst the relation between flood events and morphological changes of the river-bed are widely ignored. The present research quantifies the morphological changes of two cross-sections of the lowland reaches of the River Tisza and its tributary, the River Maros, during a high magni-tude flood which occurred in spring 2000. During the flood several key morphological cross-section variables (mean depth, channel bed eleva-tion, maximum depth, cross-sectional area and channel capacity) were monitored. Relationships between these data and daily river stage height series of the flood and specific stream power were determined. Results suggest that the identified morphological changes highly affect the channel capacity of the two cross-sections during the flood event. The channel capacity changes (9-10%) were almost identical for both study sites. However, different morphological processes characterised the two cross-sections. We found that morphological parameters de-pend not only on the actual stream power, but the available amount of sediment for transport, the rate of stage and stream power change.Manuscript:
