GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN LANDSCAPES IN THE CITY OF POLTAVA

Abstract

Research on urbanization processes and the development of urban landscapes is extremely relevant in the context of political, economic, and socio-cultural reforms that are taking place in modern-day Ukraine. Based on historical patterns, it should be noted that cities have always been at the forefront of social transformation, and urbanization processes reflect profound structural shifts in the economic and social spheres of society. This can be clearly seen in the study of the peculiarities of the formation and development of urban landscapes in Poltava. The complexity, problematic nature, and comprehensiveness of studying modern urban landscapes lie in the fact that the urban space is a territorial complex that includes transportation, recreational, technogenic, anthropogenic, water management, sacred, agricultural landscapes, objects of multi-level residential development, and more. The study of urban landscapes in Poltava will have practical significance for understanding the problems of city development, its economic, social, planning, resource, and infrastructure base. The study highlights the main issues related to the essence of urban landscapes, analyzes contemporary research in the field of general and anthropogenic landscape science, as well as geourbanistics, and indicates its distinction from urban-rural landscapes. The article defines the criteria for distinguishing urban landscapes and proposes its own typology. The physical-geographical and socio-geographical factors influencing the formation of urban landscapes in Poltava are characterized. The classification of urban landscapes in Poltava is carried out using GIS and remote sensing methods, with the use of QGIS software and the dzetsaka plugin. The following types are distinguished: multi-story industrial, low-rise rural with insignificant vegetation cover, low-rise rural with predominant vegetation cover, garden-park with agrolandscapes and aqua-landscapes. Based on the obtained data, the urban landscape zoning of Poltava is carried out, where the following are identified: multi-story industrial and low-rise rural with garden-park and agrolandscapes, multi-story industrial and low-rise rural with insignificant vegetation cover, low-rise rural with insignificant vegetation cover and multi-story rural with garden-park and aqua-landscapes. It is noted that further research on urban landscapes of the city should be conducted using satellite imagery with higher spatial resolution.