ULRMC has completed designing a digital thematic map of Crimea illustrating 27 classes of land cover and major natural reserve areas.

This innovative product meets an existing demand in Ukraine for a Landsat-based digitial map covering the entire territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

This 1: 200,000 scale digital thematic map, based on four 1999/2000 satellite images, outlines boundaries of 150 protected areas and sites and provides for GIS application of ArcInfo 8.0. The land cover was classified via ERDAS Imagine 8.4.

The application of such technologies introduces a new approach in adressing such issues as improvement of an environmental network in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, development of new protected areas and ecological paths, and more.

The map design became a part of the project "Update and Verification of Existing Areas of Natural Protection in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea" and was successfully completed thanks to the assistance provided by the Tavria National University of Simferopol, the Republican Committee on Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Crimea, based in Simferopol, and the Kyiv-based State Service of Natural Reserves.

In 2002, to enhance the Crimean network of natural reserves, ULRMC will expand its co-work with the abovementioned agencies to cover, in particular, the application of GIS techniques and remote sensing in mapping areas of natural reserves in Crimea, including the emerging ULRMC Contribution to Ecological Network Development in AR Crimea Kalynivsky Regional Landscape Park and Syvashsky National Natural Park. In the nearest future, ULRMC plans to replicate this experience in western and northern regions of Ukraine.

The GIS-based map will soon become available in its entirety online. In the meantime, selected fragments of the map are already available.

For further details about this map and ULRMC's biodiversity activities, please contact:


Note: ULRMC's initiative has a logical connection with the 1999 project "Conservation Needs Assessment in Crimea," supported by USAID under the Biodiversity Support Program. (For more details, please read Biodiversity Support Program. Priority-setting in Conservation: A new approach for Crimea. 1999, Washington D.C.)


[ Last updated : 29-Nov-2002 14:28 ]
ULRMC News & Events
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
Prev Home Next
en ua ru