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Exploring the benefits of urban green roofs: a GIS approach applied to a Greek City

Author(s): Maria Giannopoulou,Anastasia Roukouni,Konstantinos LYKOSTRATIS / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The loss of free and green spaces and their associated advantages for the urban population is a major thread for urban sustainability. The idea of planting roofs in order for them to act as natural filters within the urban tissue has been increasingly recognized as a technology that has a potential to diminish drastically the environmental problems of urban centers. In many countries, special laws are introduced which provide citizens with incentivesor even involve an obligation to build gtreen roofs. The objective of the research presented herein is to investigate and record the impact of the use of green roofs for the development of urban policies which aim at improving the quallity of urban environment, using a combination of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology and specialized software. The developed methodological framework is applied to a real-world case study of a medium-sized Greek city. The use of a comprehensive GIS environment not only contributes to improving the quality pf research but also offers the possibility of continuous updated information and monitoring of the factors that influence the development of green roofs policies.

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Use of Digital Terrain Modelling in Calculation of Stone Quarry Volumes to Renew the Exploitation Permit

Author(s): Robert Draşovean / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

The following project contains a topographycal map and a 3D model of a stone quarry, used to renew the exploitation notice. The survey was conducted using a REC ELTA 15s total station using „Free Station” program, combined with GNSS technology to determine topographycal points in the area for georeferencing. The stone quarry is located in Zlatna-Pătrângeni area, at JIDOVU peak. The survey was conducted in order to determine the volume of stone material that was eploited in one year and to determine the area of the exploitation site.

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Aspects Regarding Side Displacement and Deformation as Effect of the Subsidence Process Caused by the Exploitation of Mineral Underground Deposite

Author(s): Raluca Farcaș,Sanda Naș,Paul Sestraș,Cornel Arsene,Mircea Ortelecan / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

This paper addresses two aspects related to the manifestation of the subsidence process on the surface, caused by the exploitation of deposits of useful mineral substances (coal, ores and salt), respectively the analysis of the functional - stochastic model used to determine the displacement and deformation parameters of the surface. Taken into account, was the subject of previous research by the authors. In order to determine the displacement parameters, the rigorously processed repeated measurement method was used.

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The Position of Abandoned Heating Plants Inside the Urban Lanscape

Author(s): Adela Elena Gavrilă / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

Abandoned heating plants built in Romania in the communist period still have an impact upon city life even though they are out of use for years. This happens because of the strategic position they have inside the urban neighbourhoods. The current study has the purpose of providing information about the relationship between abandoned heating plants and the physical context that surrounds them in order to help architects, urban planners and local authorities in the process of revitalizing these areas. It is well known and even proven in numerous case studies that abandoned buildings often have a negative influence in the value of adjacent proprieties. Considering the fact that there are very few remaining empty sites in city centers and surrounding areas, the land occupied by these heating plants could have an important value.

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Geographical Information System Applied in Using Solar Energy Resource

Author(s): Andrada Oancea,Tudor Borşan / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

Due to industrial and human activities, in the last decades there has been a depletion of fossil fuels. Therefore, a general development regarding the use of renewable energies appeared. In Romania, different initiatives at national, regional and local level on the application of solar energy have started to be supported by photovoltaic systems. In this paper, Alba County of Romania is analysed from the solar energy point of view using a geographical information system model. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the areas in which solar energy can contribute to a sustainable region.

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Considering Building Energy and Environmental Performance for Real Estate Valuation

Author(s): Maricel Palamariu,Adrian Dreghici,Ildiko Tulbure / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

In our country issues concerning real estate tenure, registration and inventory are still not yet well clarified. Therefore, information about housing stock in order to get localities systematization is needed. The real estate valuation offers the required information about buildings technical inventory and characterization.Furthermore, in the European context related to buildings energy performance, Romanian authorities try to promote measures to increase the buildings energy performance by designing new buildings with low energy consumption, by thermal rehabilitation of existing buildings and by correct information of the building owners / administrators through the energy performance certificate, improving the built-up urban framework and environment protection.Building energy performance should be taken into consideration in real estate valuation. This could improve building affordability for customers, and also improve the dwellings energy performance despite the potential increase in value on the real estate market.

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Cartography Targets for Shaping Sustainable Regions

Author(s): Maricel Palamariu,Ildiko Tulbure,Silvia Alexandra Dreghici / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

Regional sustainability was recognized as one key issue connecting urban to national sustainability. The developments have however emphasized that beside wanted effects of technological progress, undesired negative effects can appear. Some scenarios for the future regional development estimate that by 2050 regions will gain more self-administra-tion and development competence in the context of the own countries. In this regard technical and economic fields should be taken into account in connection to the social one, where special attention has to be paid to the field of cartography. This is becoming more relevant regarding assuring regional sustainability because of the need of land property clarifications. Without maps, people would hardly be space oriented and the knowledge about spatial relations and objects locations in space is a first condition for assuring a successful economic development. In the last time the scientific level in cartography has been strongly developed, so that maps can be currently automatically derived from geo-data acquisition methods and presented in a range of forms, from maps on mobile phones to augmented reality presenta-tions. In this paper some cartography targets will be debated for getting sustainable regions.

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Innovative Geospatial Technologies for the Aviation Industry

Author(s): Sabina Plăvicheanu,Petre Iuliu Dragomir / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

New technologies and innovations are emerging in ways that will fundamentally disrupt some of the most important economic sectors. The development of geospatial technologies and remote sensing offers tremendous potential, allowing complex processing and analysis, at a large scale, to be deployed in timely manner. This paper presents the challenges and opportunities we are currently facing when conducting aeronautical studies and how crucial location element is for maintaining operations on aerodromes safe and efficient. Utilizing high resolution imagery and geospatial big data analytics products on a leading cloud-based platform, with a comprehensive image library of over 100 petabytes, ensures performance in providing aeronautical data of the highest quality.

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ICT Design Tool for Children’s Participation on Schoolyard Transformation

Author(s): Evangelia Polyzou,Lazaros Sechidis,Eleni Giagtzoglou / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

“Children’s participation” has become increasingly popular the last decades worldwide. Research on children’s participation argues for active involvement of children in decisions that affect them, their environment and their lives. There is little evidence of research data that the use of ICT design tools generates children’s innovative ideas in a participatory school project. This article focuses on the use of the adapted Tux Paint software to stimulate primary school children’s creativity in producing designs for their schoolyard. The adapted Tux Paint proved to be a dynamic, flexible, and innovative participatory tool that involved creative design activities and encouraged positive social interaction. It provided children with a creative and fun opportunity for exploration, free expression and learning.

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Introducing a Corporate Registry with Spatial, Cadastre and CSR Functionalities

Author(s): Artemis Styliadou / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

This conceptual paper aims to present a critical commentary analysis of the introduction of a Corporate Registry with spatial, cadastre, and corporate social responsibilities (CSR) functionalities. In particular, this paper shortly reviews the UNGP and OECD ethic principles for advancing CSR and challenges conventional thinking, reporting, and practice on CSR spatial and cadastre disclosure. Then, this article, proposes possible developments to existing CSR reporting frameworks, by incorporating metadata structures with regard to space (location), to cadastre (law descriptive data), to adverse human rights impact functionalities, and finally to personalized interpretation and adaptive implementation of those UNGP principles related to CSR. Finally, the process of transferring, in the future, from today’s soft-law ethic Corporate Principles to sustainable, hard-law, executive, personalized, and adaptive Corporate Law Standards for practical and effective protection of human rights by establishing a common, global, and flexible Corporate Registry with a number of spatial, cadastre and CSR functionalities on companies’ corporate and CSR spatial and cadastre disclosure is discussed.

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Expropriation & Compensation in Greek Land Property Law in Comparison with the ECHR: Reviewing Cases and Discussing Property Management with DLT/Blockchain Functionalities

Author(s): Artemis Styliadou / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

Nowadays, property management with DLT / Blockchain functionalities is a state-of-the-art topic. In particular, the real (land) property law is based upon two country-oriented concepts: “(Compulsory) Expropriation” and “due Compensation” as they projected to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This assignment after reviewing the compulsory expropriation of real property and the relative due compensation procedures in Greece, discusses: (a) cases before the Greek courts regarding violations and adaptations of the ECHR, and (b) real property management with Blockchain functionalities as a Distributed Ledger (DLT) technology. For this purpose, after introducing the compulsory expropriation procedure in Greece, a number of properly formulated questions (“What is the legal protection against the expropriation of real property?”; “Is it permitted expropriation extension to nearby properties?”; “Is it possible expropriation without compensation?”; and “Is it allowed revocation & lifted ipso jure of a concluded compulsory expropriation?”) are discussed, reviewed, answered, and projected both to ECHR and to upcoming DLT/Blockchain era.

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The Influence of Land Relations on the Legal Forms of Organization

Author(s): Efim Zubco,Ion Botnarenco,Octavian Mocreac / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2018

The paper addresses a current issue related to the agricultural land relations of the Republic of Moldova. The analysis of the current stage of situation proves the priority of the private property in the agricultural land belonging to the legal forms of organization in comparison with the areas of the leased agricultural lands.Land relations reform in agriculture aimed at the privatization of land and other agricultural goods and implementation of market land relations.Agriculture in the Republic of Moldova is dominated by several legal forms of organization based on both associative and individual principles. Each of these forms requires a separate study. The paper is focused on the main legal forms of organization and namely: private limited companies (Ltd) and peasant (farmer type) farms.Agriculture is an area in which the legal forms of organization have been most influenced by the process of land reform. The reform has changed the economic essence of the production process in agriculture - the property. International experience in this field has demonstrated the effectiveness and priority of the agricultural farms’ potential based on individual principles, especially those of a family type.The study proves the interaction between property rights and process of agriculture intensification through investments, especially those aimed at the development of vineyard and orchard plantations.

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Aspects Regarding External Stresses on Dams During the Years 2000 – 2016. Case Study – 22 Reservoirs in Prut – Bârlad Catchment

Author(s): Isabela Balan,Loredana Crengăniș,Flaviana Corduneanu / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2017

The Prut - Barlad Water Basinal Administration has a complex program of observations and hydro meteorological measurements. For a number of 22 reservoirs, special behavior monitoring is carried out, according to the Normative for the Monitoring of Hydrotechnical Constructions NP 087-2003. The main external stresses monitored at the dams of these accumulations are: rainfall, temperatures, water level in the lake. A study period of 17 years between 1999 and 2016 was chosen for the analysis. The paper presents the multiannual evolution of the maximum water levels in the reservoirs chosen for the study.

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Specifics of the Real Estate Market Development

Author(s): Ala Carcea / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2017

The article examines the process of the emergence, shaping and functioning of the real property market in the Republic of Moldova and dwells on the factors that influence its shaping and development. The paper presents the market development dynamics, considers main problems and suggests their possible solutions.

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The use of the Network Analyst Extension for the Organization and Optimization of Transport in Roman Municipality

Author(s): Loredana Crengăniș,Constantin Bofu,Isabela Balan / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2017

This paper aims to develop a GIS analysis to simulate public transportation in Roman Municipality. For this purpose, five routes, with minibuses as means of transportation, have been defined. Shared transport was analysed using the attributes inserted in the database and with the ArcMap Network Analyst extension.Using ArcGIS Network Analyst, we can identify the area of influence of an economic objective on any location on the map representing the network. The Neighbourhood Determination Function allows establishing the minimum distance between a point on the network and the closest socio-economic objective, by specifying the number of goals to be taken into account and the maximum time spent on the movement. The functions of determining the directions of travel (Driving Directions Function) generate text and map reports, while routing determining functions allow generating routes with specific attributes (time, distance, restrictions and barriers - natural or anthropic) between two or more points, with one or more stops along it and determines the optimum route by ordering points on a track to minimize the costs. GIS modelling is done using the procedures contained in the spatial analysis, which ultimately leads to a decision-making prediction. The operations involved in the modelling can be performed directly on the map layers and in combination with the associated attributes

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Fragmente din istoria oraşului Iaşi: reşedinţa Agenţiei Austriece

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Fragmente din istoria oraşului Iaşi: reşedinţa Agenţiei Austriece

Author(s): Marius Chelcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 65/2019

This research represents a reconstruction of the urban evolution of a portion of the historical center of the city of Iasi, two lots located near the church known as the “White Church” (Biserica Albă), from the Fânăriei mahale. The first documents regarding these lots date from the middle of the 18th century. The analysis of the sources reveals that in the second half of the 18th century there were some wooden houses built on stone foundation, with basements underneath, destroyed by at least two devastating fires. After 1798 a house made of durable materials, stone and brick was built. That proved to be the place where, with some transformations and renovations, the Austrian Consulate in Iasi resides, from 1813 to 1833, then from 1846 to 1896. The interruption between 1833 and 1846 was due to a serious damage to the construction by another devastating fire, this time from 1833.We managed to capture the existence of its building and its dependencies both in documents and in the plans of the town of Iasi drawn in the second half of the 18th century and in the following century. The building where the Austrian Consulate in Iasi worked was demolished in 1989, following the implementation of a plan for the systematization of the central area of Iasi.

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Solving the Procedural Stage Regarding the Land that are Pending at the Courts through the Contribution of the Expert in the Field of Cadastre

Author(s): Anca Lazăr,Dan Pădure / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2017

In the present Romanian society appeared in a very large number the litigation situations regarding real estate and land. In this respect, the technical expert brings a fundamental contribution because the answers he provides to the requested objectives help the court to solve the case. Litigation occurs mainly between physical persons and between legal / physical persons and state institutions.

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Using NBUI to Extract Built-up Area in Iaşi Municipality Area, Romania

Author(s): Paul Macarof,Cazarina Georgiana Bartic,Florian Stătescu / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2017

Urban built-up areas are vast stretches of constructed areas equipped with basic public facilities. Urban built-up area information is necessary in numerous applications of land use planning and management. The detection and calculation of the built-up area with the highest possible accuracy is of big importance in agricultural urban and suburban studies. Urban built-up area extraction from Landsat data, which has moderate spatial resolution, is challenging because of important intraurban heterogeneity and spectral confusion between other landcover types. In this paper is used a method to extract urban built-up surface from Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus data and determines urban area changes between 1994 to 2016 of Iaşi Municipal Area of Romania. The Enhanced Built-Up Bareness Index (EBBI), Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), Modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI) were selected, to define three major urban landuse (LU) classes: built-up and barren or bare land, vegetation and open waterbody. In this paper built-up area was extracted as difference between indices EBBI, SAVI, MNDWI to eliminate water noises and vegetation, the obtained index image was spectrally sectioned to separate built-up area from the nonurban built-up lands. The obtained index is used to extract built-up area for 1994 and 2016 periods. Built-up area showed an overall growth about 203% in a span of 22 years. The accuracy of this index is 88.72%.

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GIS Database for Mining. Case Study: Dealul Hulei-Mateiaș Limestone Quarry

Author(s): Costin Sebastian Manu,Larisa Ofelia Filip,Dumitru Filip Tivig,Ioan Boroic,Ion Cosmin Ciuculescu / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2017

A GIS database is the foundation for performant mining management. In the following article the authors propose the presentation of a geographic database with reference to Dealul Hulei-Mateiaș limestone quarry, Argeș county, Romania.

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Development of a Bathymetric Model for Danube Bala Branch-Old Danube Bifurcation

Author(s): Alina Florina Nicolae,Puiu Lucian Georgescu,Gyorgy Deak,Adrian Ștefan Zamfir,Georgeta Tudor,Constantin Cîrstinoiu,Bogdan Urițescu,Marius Raischi,Marius Olteanu / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2017

The study area is of particular importance in terms of the morphological complex processes of the riverbed. Bala branch is defined by intense hydro morphological dynamics areas. At the same time, Old Danube is characterized by sediment deposition processes, as evidenced by the presence of numerous islands and sandbanks, with negative implications for navigation. In this context, in order to create hydrodynamic and morphodynamic models using Delft3D software, it is necessary to develop a bathymetric model that allows to provide results that are in line with reality. At the basis of the bathymetric model are the results obtained from the single beam and multi-beam measurements and the optimized grid which was refined in the hydrotechnical construction area.

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