Digital landscape mapping as an element of geoinformational support of the Braslavskie Ozyora National Park

  • Natallia V. Hahina Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Dzmitry M. Kurlovich Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Viachaslau A. Sipach Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus; The Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise «Geoinformation Systems», National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 6 Surganava Street, Minsk 220012, Belarus

Abstract

Geoinformation support of national parks includes a set of measures aimed at collecting, accumulating, transferring, storing, protecting, processing, searching, transforming information and providing it to consumers to fulfill their functional duties. The integrated automated reference system of the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve and national parks of Belarus was created to improve the efficiency of managing the activities of specially protected natural areas, including solving problems of preserving landscape and biological diversity. This system combines into an information and reference structure such processes as the collection of field information, its storage, processing and visualisation for various services in the form of web maps and web applications, work with tabular data, various archival and new cartographic materials, remote sensing data Earth. The integrated automated reference system of the Braslavskie Ozyora National Park includes structural components of cartographic and information and reference and information support. Their elements are digital thematic maps, a landscape map at a scale of 1 : 100 000, and reference information obtained from their analysis. As a result of the study, a complex landscape structure of the territory of the national park was revealed, within the boundaries of which 7 genera and 21 types of landscapes were identified. It was clarified that lacustrine-glacial landscapes prevail on the territory of the national park, occupying 30.8 % of its area. As part of the reference and information support, the landscape structure of functional zones was determined. Within the boundaries of the park, the basis of strict protection of natural landscapes is flat lacustrine-glacial landscapes with hollows and hollows and lacustrine-marsh landscapes with convex raised and transitional bogs. The methods of digital landscape mapping, geoinformation and comparative analysis were used. The results obtained can be used to correct the boundaries of the functional zones of the Braslavskie Ozyora National Park and improve its geographic information system. Methodological approaches to the construction of an integrated automated reference system can also be applied to other specially protected natural areas.

Author Biographies

Natallia V. Hahina, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (geography), docent; head of the department of geoecology, faculty of geography and geoinformatics

Dzmitry M. Kurlovich, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (geography), docent; first vice-rector

Viachaslau A. Sipach, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus; The Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise «Geoinformation Systems», National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 6 Surganava Street, Minsk 220012, Belarus

senior lecture at the department of soil science and geographic information systems, faculty of geography and geoinformatics, Belarusian State University, and deputy head of department, The Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise «Geoinformation Systems», National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

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Published
2023-05-21
Keywords: geoinformational support, digital map, national park, functional zoning, landscape
Supporting Agencies The authors express their gratitude to doctor of science (geography), full professor G. I. Martsinkevich for their methodological assistance in the development of the landscape map legend.
How to Cite
Hahina, N. V., Kurlovich, D. M., & Sipach, V. A. (2023). Digital landscape mapping as an element of geoinformational support of the Braslavskie Ozyora National Park. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Geography and Geology, 1, 19-32. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/geography/article/view/5637
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No 1 (2023): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Geography and Geology
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