Published in Scientific Papers. Series E. Land Reclamation, Earth Observation & Surveying, Environmental Engineering, Vol. VII
Written by Adela PASCA, Teodor RUSU
Global warming in the past 30 years had serious effects on agricultural land and its crop suitability in the Iclod Commune, whose agricultural land evaluation database still uses old temperature and precipitation averages. Using WorldClim monthly temperature and precipitation distribution maps, History+ simulated archive database and SRTM’s slope steepness and orientation, raster calculations were performed in GIS for a fast update of temperature and precipitation distribution maps which were then used to update the OSPA’s agricultural land qualitative assessment database. The results show that the last 30 years hot and dry tendencies substantially modify Iclod Commune’s land evaluation database, suggesting that new crops are more suitable than the old ones in face of the current accelerated climate change tendencies.
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