OBSERVING LANDSCAPE CHANGES USING DISTANT METHODS

Landscape changes are a very common phenomenon in t he area of North-West Bohemia (the Czech Republic) as this area is heavy industrialized. This paper presents two methods for observing the landscape – the bathymetric mapping and the aerial mapping. The bathymetric mapping is used to reconstruct the original surface in area where the Nechranice dam was built in 1960’ and to evaluate the sedimentation caused by the Ohře River. The original surface of the Ohře river canyon was reconstructed using old maps and t he bathymetric mapping was performed with Lowrance HDS-5 Sonar. The aerial mapping introduced in this paper is a new method of using Small Format Aerial Photography in connection with an ordinary aircraft. The gimbal (camera stabilization) normally used by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is mounted into a small aircraft and allowing the scanning of very large areas – in our case the open-pit mine Tušimice was the target of our study. The derived orthophoto and Digital Surface Models were used to complete the georelief development analysis based on old maps and aerial photographs