VISUALIZATION OF LAND USE CHANGES IN POLAND BASED ON NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS (1990-2006)

摘要

Land use is defined as spatial distribution of forms of land cover patches, utilized or not by man within framework of the spatial and mutual relationships. The term refers to the functional character of given terrain and is identified also with the socio-economic description of the surface (Kozubek, 1992, Ciolkosz & Bielecka, 2005, after Stamp, 1960, Kostrowicki, 1959). The observed dependency of land use and neighboring land cover patches is pointed out in many publications from geography or spatial economy; i.e. the economic utilization of observed lot (or patch) has the smaller consequence for future than the existing land use in its neighborhood. Either the situation, existing neighborhood or predominant land use types in given, whole region are the factors stimulating of further land use changes of the observed lot (Hagoort, 2006).