Image Processing and Analysis of Change Detection in the Land Cover of the Sudetes

The presentation reports methods of raster images processing using Idrisi GIS software. The raster images cover period of 20 years 1984, 11 July, 1992 and 2003, 17 August. During 1981-1987 the acid rains have been detected in the area of Sudetes, Poland. It resulted in the destroyed 11,000 ha of spruce forest in Sudety mountains and 15ooo ha in the North West Czech Republic and Saxony. Current work resports detected changes in land cover types using Idrisi and image analysis