Published in Scientific Papers. Series E. Land Reclamation, Earth Observation & Surveying, Environmental Engineering, Vol. XI
Written by Tiberiu Mihai KALMAR, Marcel DÎRJA, Adrian Traian Gh.M. RĂDULESCU, Petru Daniel MĂRAN, Virgil Mihai Gh.M. RĂDULESCU, Corina M. RĂDULESCU, Gheorghe M.T. RĂDULESCU
From 2005 to 2009, in Maramureș, over 1,000 hectares of forest area were cleared, although the entire area is part of the integral protection area of the Maramureş Mountains Natural Park. Although, worldwide, the main cause of deforestation is the development of land for agricultural purposes, in Romania, from the beginning, the main purpose has been to obtain timber. Thus, in Maramureș, and in the year of the 2020 pandemic, more than 104,000 cubic meters of illegally cut wood were reported in a communiqué of the Ministry of Environment, practically 340 hectares of forest being severely affected. The effect of deforestation on land stability can be viewed from at least two points of view: 1. Deforestation causes climate change that in turn causes landslides, 2. Deforestation causes land instability by eliminating stabilizing roots leading directly to landslides. The analysis of these effects, directly on the case studies made in the field is currently carried out by means of Geomatics. The paper analyses the techniques and tools that can be used, the technological flow and the results, using one of the case studies analysed in the GeoSES Project, located in Sighetu Marmației, the most affected by the more or less legal deforestation practices taking place in Romania.
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