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THIRD EUROPEAN SCGIS CONFERENCE ”Geoinformation Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage Conservation” 2016 THIRD EUROPEAN SCGIS CONFERENCE ”Geoinformation technologies for natural and cultural heritage conservation” CONFERENCE PROGRAM ABSTRACT BOOK SOFIA, BULGARIA 11-12 OCTOBER 2016 THIRD EUROPEAN SCGIS CONFERENCE Geoinformation technologies for natural and cultural heritage conservation 11-12 October 2016, Sofia CONFERENCE PROGRAM INTRODUCTION The Third European SCGIS Conference is a joint initiative of the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) Chapter Bulgaria, Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) Chapter Slovenia, Space Research and Technology Institute – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Anton Melik Geographical Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, ESRI Bulgaria and Bulgarian Geographical Society. The main idea of this event is to invite researchers and professionals from various scientific fields dealing with the conservation issues through geoinformation technologies, to promote the conservation idea and to popularize the Society for Conservation GIS (www.scgis.org). CONFERENCE TOPICS Some of the images and graphics used in the scheme are downloaded free of charge fromFreeVector.com under Creative commons attribution license with authors BSGStudioand Vector Graphics. ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chairmen: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vanya Stamenova SCGIS Bulgaria & SRTI-BAS Res. Fell. Dr. Rok Ciglič SCGIS Slovenia & ZRC SAZU Vice-Chairmen: Assistant Dr. Stefan Stamenov SCGIS Bulgaria & SRTI-BAS Members: Miglena Kuzmanova ESRI Bulgaria Res. Fell. Dr. Mateja Breg Valjavec ZRC SAZU Nadezhda Kecheva SCGIS Bulgaria & NIAM-BAS Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stoyan Nedkov BGS Assist. Natalia Stankova SRTI-BAS Tsveta Srebrova SRTI-BAS SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vanya Stamenova, Space Research and Technology Institute- BAS, SCGIS Bulgaria Dr. Healy Hamilton, SCGIS and NatureServe, USA Res. Fell. Dr. Rok Ciglič, Anton Melik Geographical Institute ZRC SAZU, SCGIS Slovenia Dr. Nicola Masini, CNR-IBAM, Italy Dr. Rosa Lasaponara CNR- IMAA, Italy Prof. Eng. Claudio Parente, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy Assistant Dr. Stefan Stamenov, Space Research and Technology Institute- BAS, SCGIS Bulgaria Res. Fell. Dr. Mateja Breg Valjavec, Anton Melik Geographical Institute ZRC SAZU, SCGIS Slovenia Nadezhda Kecheva, National Institute of Archaeology with Museum-BAS, SCGIS Bulgaria Assist. Prof. Dr. Iva Ivanova, Space Research and Technology Institute- BAS, Bulgaria Dr. Florentina Popescu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Lect. univ. dr. Florina-Minodora Ardelean, West University of Timisoara, Romania Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lachezar Filchev, Space Research and Technology Institute- BAS, Bulgaria Dr. Ivan Radevski, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia CONFERENCE VENUE The conference opening, plenary and technical sessions will take place in the Great Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on 11th of October 2016, from 10:00 to 12:30. The thematic sessions of the Third European SCGIS Conference “Geoinformation technologies for natural and cultural heritage conservation” will be held at Park Hotel Moskva in Sofia, Bulgaria on 11th and 12th of October 2016. CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: SCGIS SCGIS ESRI Bulgaria Space Research GIAM ZRC Bulgarian Chapter Chapter and Technology SAZU Geographical Bulgaria Slovenia Institute - BAS Society www.scgisbg.org https://www.scgis www.esribulgaria.com www.space.bas.bg http://giam.zrc http://geography.bg .org/chapters/pag -sazu.si es/slovenia Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Venue: Great Hall of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 10:00 to 10:30 Registration Opening and Plenary Session 10:30 to 11:50 Welcome Speech Society for Conservation GIS 10:30 to 10:40 Stefan Stamenov SCGIS Chapter Bulgaria Space Research and Technology Institute – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – history and activities 10:40 to 10:50 Georgi Sotirov Space research and technology institute – Bulgarian academy of sciences Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts 10:50 to 11:00 Rok Ciglič Anton Melik Geographical Institute ZRC SAZU “Space School” Initiative – a way to space and geoscience 11:00 to 11:10 Vanya Stamenova, Stefan Stamenov Space research and technology institute – Bulgarian academy of sciences Bulgarian Astronautical Society ESRI Bulgaria 11:10 to 11:20 Serguey Shishov ESRI Bulgaria Ltd. GEONET: The ESRI Community 11:20 to 11:30 Stefan Stamenov SCGIS Chapter Bulgaria Remote Sensing in Europe: The EARSeL perspective 11:30 to 11:40 Vanya Stamenova Space research and technology institute – Bulgarian academy of sciences EUROGEO: a European association interacting with policy 11:40 to 11:50 while promoting Geography Stelian Dimitrov, Sofia University Technical session – ESRI Bulgaria Advanced analysis tools and techniques in ArcGIS 10.4 for natural and cultural 11:50 to 12:30 heritage conservation Dimitar Koritarov, ESRI Bulgaria Ltd. 12:30 to 14:00 Lunch break Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Venue: Park Hotel Moskva GIS-based Conservation of Natural Heritage sites and Natural Resources 14:00 to 15:15 (Sub-topics: GIS for protected areas, Remote sensing and GIS of Natura 2000 habitat types, GIS for biodiversity conservation) Overlapping of onshore oil activities and biodiversity in Italy: spatialising the guidelines for the Environmental Impact Assessment in “Val d’Agri” Concession, Basilicata, South of Italy 14:00 to 14:15 Alberto Diantini, Daniele Codato, Eugenio Salvatore Pappalardo, Francesco Ferrarese, Federico Gianoli, Massimo De Marchi University of Padova, Italy GIS based landscape ecology analyses of Nature Park Bulgarka 14:15 to 14:30 Stoyan Nedkov National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography – BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria OpenStreetMap for National Parks Oleg Seliverstov, Ievgeniia Luchnykova 14:30 to 14:45 Kharkiv National University Department of Physical Geography and Cartography, Ukraine Remote sensing for Natura 2000 habitats - mapping and monitoring 14:45 to 15:00 Stefan Genchev National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography – BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria NDVI changes and their relationships with climatic parameters for the south- eastern part of Bulgaria 15:00 to 15:15 Roumen Nedkov, Emiliya Velizarova, Ibrahim Molla, Mariana Zaharinova Space research and technology institute – Bulgarian academy of sciences Forest Research Institute – BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria 15:15 to 15:30 Coffee Break GIS-based Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage 15:30 to 16:00 (POSTER SESSION) Short poster presentations and Discussions Data layer for protection of cultural heritage – designed landscapes Marketa Flekalova, Hana Matejkova, Ondrej Sestak, Lenka Trpakova Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Horticulture, Department of Landscape Planning, Czech Republic Historical reconstruction of the battle for Normandy Klara Čevka University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Floodplain analysis for different return periods of rivers Vardar in Tikvesh valley (Republic of Macedonia) Ivan Radevski, Svemir Gorin Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje, Macedonia Contemporary Landscapes in the Downstream of the River Vrana. Plain Landscapes Velimira Stoyanova National Instititute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography – BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria Tracing landscape changes in Panagyurishte ore region Hristo Nikolov, Denitsa Borisova Space Research and Technology Institute –BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria Actual state of Poda Protected Area using SAR data Iva Ivanova, Roumen Nedkov, Mariana Zaharinova, Natalia Stankova Space Research and Technology Institute –BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria Избор на обекти при създаването на геопространствена информационна система за популяризиране на природното и културното наследство по трансграничната долина на р. Струма Галина Безинска, Пенка Кастрева, Иван Дреновски, Христина Цонева, Красимир Стоянов Югозападен университет „Неофит Рилски”, Благоевград, България 16:00 to 17:00 GIS-based Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage GIS-Modelling of Landscape Aesthetic Properties to Cultural Heritage Site Restoration 16:00 to 16:15 Eugeny Kolbowsky, Uliana Medovocova Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation Combining GIS and eDNA to assess the groundwater habitat of black Proteus in Slovenia 16:15 to 16:30 Magdalena Năpăruș-Aljančič, Špela Gorički, David Stanković, Matjaž Kuntner, Gregor Aljančič Tular Cave Laboratory, Society for Cave Biology, Kranj, Slovenia 16:30 to 16:45 Seagrass Mapping Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques Mojca Poklar Harpha Sea, d.o.o. Koper, Slovenia 16:45 to 17:00 Landslides monitoring near Kranevo by means of InSAR Mila Atanasova, Hristo Nikolov Space Research and Technology Institute –BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Venue: Park Hotel Moskva GIS-based Conservation of Natural Heritage sites and Natural Resources 10:00 to 10:45 (Sub-topics: Landscape diversity; Land use change, climate change, human footprint; GIS in landscape studies Can the Environmental Evaluation Be Objective? Mapping Anthropogenic Influence in Bucegi Natural Park, Romania 10:00 to 10:15 Bogdan Olariu University of Bucharest Faculty of Geography, Romania Bucegi mountains between development of new ski areas and preservation of natural heritage – analysis of snow related parameters in the context of climate 10:15 to 10:30 change Florentina Popescu, Florina Ardelean, Mircea Voiculescu West University of Timisoara, Romania Man-made relief: anthropogenic impact on natural earth surface 10:30 to 10:45 Vanya Stamenova, Stefan Stamenov Space Research and Technology Institute –BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria 10:45 to 11:00 Coffee Break Research
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