Spatiotemporal changes of the Ploučnice river for the explanation of pollution distribution in the floodplain

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2017/23/S11.083" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2017/23/S11.083</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2017/23/S11.083" target="_blank" >10.5593/sgem2017/23/S11.083</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatiotemporal changes of the Ploučnice river for the explanation of pollution distribution in the floodplain

Original language description

The Ploučnice River (the Czech Republic) has been impacted by the uranium mining in the Stráž pod Ralskem area mainly from 1971 to 1987. The extreme flood in 1981 contaminated the Ploučnice River system by uranium, radium and also by heavy metals. The pollutants are now deposited all over the floodplain downstream from the mining area. Other extreme flood in 2010 caused the remobilization of deposited pollution. This paper is focused on the spatiotemporal changes of the Ploučnice River between Stráž pod Ralskem town and Česká Lípa town during the last two centuries that is relevant for understanding the past and prediction of the future secondary pollution. On the basis of the comparison of several datasets (archival documents of the 19th century, archive aerial photos from 1938 to 2015, the aerial mapping of gamma activity in 2005, and the digital terrain model from the laser scanning dataset from 2010) we report on the Ploučnice River development. Aerial photos were orthorectified in Agisoft PhotoScan software. Dataset of the river development was prepared and then analyzed in ArcGIS Desktop 10.4 software. The parts of natural evolution of meanders, as well as the parts of anthropogenic straightening on the Ploučnice River were identified. The results of the analysis showed a relationship between transfer of polluted sediment and lateral channel shifts. It was identified that the heterogeneity of the pollution and increased concentration of pollution occurred mainly by the past meander abandonments and channel shifts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-00340S" target="_blank" >GA15-00340S: Anthropogenic Pollution and Fluvial Architecture: Two Phenomena and a Single Story</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

SGEM2017 Conference Proceedings, Volume 17, Issue 23

ISBN

978-619-7408-03-4

ISSN

1314-2704

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

665-672

Publisher name

STEF92 Technology Ltd., Bulgaria

Place of publication

Albena

Event location

Albena (BG)

Event date

Jun 29, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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