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Summary The report gives reasons for the relevance of remote sensing methods for the study of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, which are the effective tool for their monitoring. The Zdolbuniv MSW landfill (the Rivne region, Ukraine) as a case study allows demonstrating informativeness of identifying MSW landfill Sites and the adjusted areas using the spectral characteristics and texture of earth’s covers obtained from the satellite images for the different years. The informativeness of the study of dynamics for landfill geometrical parameters, the change of its internal “structure”, the functional changes in the surrounding landscape elements (first of all, the changes in the forest stands) is demonstrated. In particular, satellite image data for the period of 2003 to 2019 allow identifying the increase of a number of the Zdolbuniv landfill Sites at the expense of adjacent forest stands. Thus, in 2003 one Site of the landfill is operated, whereas in 2019 – already three ones. The study of dynamics for the change of the total area of landfill has revealed the increase of this area by approximately 3.13 times (from 6 521 to 20 438 m2, respectively). In addition, the total perimeter along the contours of its stages has enlarged more than 2.47 times (from 438 to 1 083 m, respectively). |
