Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Mihai Valentin HERBEI, Radu BERTICI, Codruta BADALUTA – MINDA, George POPESCU, Florin SALA

Land cover and Land use monitoring is a very complex process for a better understanding of the dynamics of the landscape over a long period of time. Such monitoring cannot be performed without using geospatial methods in the field of remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In this paper was analysed the use of land in the Periurban area of Timisoara in the period 1990-2018 based on data provided by the Copernicus program of the European Union. From the analysis of the data from 1990 to 2018, based on the GIS spatial analyses, it can be concluded that approximately 5,700 hectares have changed their destination. The most significant changes were those in the category Pesterers in Non irrigated arable land (21.8% - 1,256 ha) and the change in the category Non irrigated arable land in Discontinuous urban fabric (18.9% - 1,087 ha), leading to the conclusion both of the urbanization of this periurban area of Timisoara Municipality, but also of the development of the agricultural field. Also, in this study were analysed 3 remote sensing indices determined based on Landsat 8 images, data that can be the basis for a monitoring of urban expansion in western Romania.

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