LANDSCPE ANALYSIS IN

THE YANTRA RIVER BASIN

ON THE BASE OF
MONITORING SYSTEM

Stoyan Nedkov
Bulgarian Academy of Science
 STUDIED AREA

VELIKO
TURNOVO

SOFIA
SOFIA
 Arbanasi

Trapezitza

Tzarevetz

Hotel

Old town
 CONTENT
„ Materials

Physic-chemical monitoring
Hydro-biological monitoring

„ Methods
AGWA
ATtILA

„ Results
Monitoring results
Landscape metrics

„ Analyses
Landscape and water relationships
 MATERIALS
„ Physic-chemical monitoring
14 sampling points
24 observed characteristics
4 – 12 samplings/year
Observation period 1999 - 2003
„ Hydro-biological monitoring
158 sampling points
1 observed characteristic
1 – 2 samplings/year
Observation period 2000 – 2003
„ CORINE Land Cover
1990 – Land Cover
2000 – Land Cover
14 sampling points Yantra
mouth
Physic-chemical
Monitoring
Karanzi
16 analyzed
characteristics
Rositza Lefedja Goliamata
mouth mouth
Samovodene Starata
Stabboliiski mouth
dam VELICO Djuliunitza
Airport TURNOVO mouth
Sevlievo Drianovska
mouth

Gabrovo

Sugar
Gorna Oriahovitza Factories
Jabalka
 Hydro-biological
Monitoring
158
sampling points

VELICO
TURNOVO
 CORINE LAND COVER

1990 2000
CORINE LAND COVER
1990 – 2000 change
 CONTENT
„ Materials

Physic-chemical monitoring
Hydro-biological monitoring

„ Methods
AGWA
ATtILA

„ Results
Landscape metrics
Monitoring results

„ Analyses
Landscape and water relationships
 AGWA
Watershed delineation

DEM Flow direction Flow accumulation

50m grid grid
 AGWA
Watershed delineation

VELICO
TURNOVO
 AGWA
Watershed delineation

VELICO
TURNOVO
 Subbasins
divided according to
the physico-chemical
monitoring points
Karanzi

Samovodene

VELICO
SEVLIEVO TURNOVO

GABROVO
 ATtILA
Landscape metrics
 SOME LIMITATIONS USING ATtILA
„ Land Cover classification system
ATtILA is based on NLCD
European Land Cover is based on CORINE
„ Similarities between CORINE and NLCD
Urban classes
Forest classes
Barren classes
„ Discrepancies between CORINE and NLCD
Agriculture classes
Water classes
Transitional and mixed
 NLCD classes CORINE classes
11 = Open Water 111 CONTINIOUS URBAN FABRIC
12 = Perennial Ice/Snow 112 DISCONTINUOUS URBAN FABRIC
21 = Low Intensity Residential 121 INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL UNTS
22 = High Intensity Residential 122 ROAD AND RAILNETWORKS AND ASSOCIATED LAND
123 PORT AREAS
23 = Commercial/Industrial/Transportation
124 AIRPORTS
31 = Bare Rock/Sand/Clay 131 MINERAL EXTRACTION SITES
32 = Quarries (кариери)/Strip Mines/Grave 132 DUMP SITES
33 = Transitional 133 CONSTRUCTION SITES
41 = Deciduous Forest 141 GREEN URBAN AREAS
42 = Evergreen Forest 142 SPORT AND LEISURE FACILITIES
43 = Mixed Forest 211 NON-IRRIGATED ARABLE LAND
51 = Deciduous Shrubland 212 PERMANENTLY IRRIGATED LAND
52 = Evergreen Shrubland 213 RICE FIELDS
221 VINEYARDS
53 = Mixed Shrubland
222 FRUIT TREES AND BERRY PLANTATIONS
61 = Orchards/Vineyards/Other
223 OLIVE GROWES
71 = Grasslands/Herbaceous 231 PASTURES
81 = Pasture/Hay 241 ANNUAL CROPS ASSOCIATED WITH PERMANENT CROPS
82 = Row Crops 242 COMPLEX CULTIVATION PATTERNS
83 = Small Grains 243 LAND PRINCIPALLY OCCUPIED BY AGRICULTURE,
84 = Fallow (угар) 244 AGRO-FORESTRY AREAS
85 = Urban/Recreational Grasses 311 BROAD-LEAVED FOREST
91 = Woody Wetlands 312 CONIFEROUS FOREST
92 = Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands 313 MIXED FOREST
321 NATURAL GRASSLAND
322 MOORS AND HEATHLAND
323 SCLEROPHYLLOUS VEGETATION
324 TRANSITIONAZL WOODLAND-SHRUB
331 BEACHES, DUNES, AND SAND PLAINS
332 BARE ROCK
333 SPARSELY VEGETATED AREAS
334 BURNT AREAS
335 GLACIERS AND PERPETUAL SNOW
411 INLAND MARSHES
412 PEATBOGS
421 SALT-MARSHES
422 SALINES
423 INTERTIDAL FLATS
511 WATER COURSES
512 WATER BODIES
521 COASTAL LAGOONS
522 ESTUARIES
523 SEA AND OCEAN
 SOME LIMITATIONS USING ATtILA
Discrepancies between CORINE and NLCD
Agriculture classes

NLCD CORINE

NON-IRRIGATED ARABLE LAND

Pasture/Hay
PERMANENTLY IRRIGATED LAND
Row Crops RICE FIELDS
Small Grains VINEYARDS
FRUIT TREES AND BERRY PLANTATIONS
Fallow OLIVE GROWES
PASTURES
 SOME LIMITATIONS USING ATtILA
Discrepancies between CORINE and NLCD
Transitional and mixed classes

NLCD CORINE

COMPLEX CULTIVATION PATTERNS

? LAND PRINCIPALLY OCCUPIED BY AGRICULTURE,

WITH SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF NATURAL VEGETATION
AGRO-FORESTRY AREAS
 CONTENT
„ Materials

Physic-chemical monitoring
Hydro-biological monitoring

„ Methods
AGWA
ATtILA

„ Results
Landscape metrics
Monitoring results

„ Analyses
Landscape and water relationships
 LANDSCAPE METRICS
Subbasins of the physic-chemical
monitoring points
area km2 N_index Pfor U_index Purb Pag
1 Yantra_Yabalka 13984 94.4 88.1 3.8 0 3.8
2 Yantra_Gabrovo 265550 77.3 72.6 21.6 5.2 16.3
3 Yantra_Cholakovzi 283468 37.1 25.2 62.2 8.7 53.2
4 Yantra_Samovodene 56920 50.5 39.7 49.5 22.3 27.1
5 Yantra_Karanzi 700478 17.5 11.6 81.5 8.9 72.3
6 Yantra_ustie 1285898 7.7 5.8 92.2 6.4 85
7 Drianovska 749138 58.4 49.3 40.9 3.9 36.9
8 Rositza_sevlievo 1101328 48.6 44.3 49.5 5.5 44.1
9 Roritza_ustie 1118323 27.1 18.5 71.9 5.5 66.4
10 Stara 785672 66.4 57.6 33.3 2.5 30.8
11 Goliama 666046 41.5 34.4 58.3 7.1 51.3
12 Djuliunitza 887535 65.1 56.6 34.7 3.5 31.3
 LANDSCAPE METRICS
% Forest
Percentage of forested
land cover
Pfor
 LANDSCAPE METRICS
% Urban Percentage of Urban
land cover
Purb
 LANDSCAPE METRICS
Percentage of Agriculture
% Agriculture land cover
Pagr
Physic -chemical Monitoring results
Physic-chemical
„ Parameters with normal values
Dissolved O2 Chlorides Manganese
COD-Mn Sulfates
Dissolved solids NO3-N
„ Parameters exceeding I category level
BOD5 PO 4
Suspended solids
„ Parameters exceeding II category level
Iron (total)
„ Parameters exceeding II category level
NH4-N NO2-N
MONITORING III category
II category
RESULTS I category
clean

Suspended solid
NH4-N
NO2-N
PO4
BOD5

VELICO
TURNOVO
Sevlievo

Gabrovo
Hydro -biological Monitoring results
Hydro-biological
Average statement 200-2003
 CONTENT
„ Materials

Physic-chemical monitoring
Hydro-biological monitoring

„ Methods
AGWA
ATtILA

„ Results
Monitoring results
Landscape metrics

„ Analyses
Landscape and water relationships
 Landscape and water
relationships
Correlation between Landscape Metrics
and some water characteristics

BOD5 NH4-N NO2-N PO4 Fe NO2-N susp sol

Purb 0.28 0.01 0.61 0.64 0.35 0.05 0.14
Pag 0.10 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.49 0.32 0.31
Pfor 0.14 0.39 0.12 0.02 0.02 0.04 0.03
U_index 0.05 0.14 0.04 0.06 0.54 0.59 0.33
 Analysis of the monitoring points location

subbas area 1000km2 riv net dens riv/area num HBM p HBM p/riv_lenght
Rositza_ustie 1118 584 0.52 18 32
Rositza_sevl 1101 1054 0.96 30 35
Yantra_ustie 1016 285 0.28 9 32
Yantra_Karanzi 980 373 0.38 23 16
Juliunitza 887 805 0.91 18 45
Stara 785 759 0.97 5 152
Drianovska 749 671 0.90 14 48
Goliama 666 546 0.82 13 42
Yantra_Cholakovtzi 283 192 0.68 11 17
Yantra_gabrovo 254 263 1.04 7 38
Yantra_Samovodene 56 27 0.48 3 9
Analysis of the monitoring points location
Number of hydro-biological monitoring points
in the subbasins divided according to physic-chemical
monitoring points location

23 13
18
3
11
30 18 5
14
7
Analysis of the monitoring points location
Average river length
per hydro-biological monitoring point

32

16 42
32
9
17
35 45
43 152
38
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