LandRiskUA

Towards an Innovative Methodology for Land Degradation Risk Assessment in Ukraine

We contribute to the development of a multi-criteria approach for assessing and mapping the risk of land degradation in Ukraine, taking into account military-technological factors. Special attention is given to evaluating the impact of a complex of mechanical, physical, and chemical effects of military actions on the alteration and destruction of fertile chernozem soils. The research methodology is based on a combination of GIS analysis and modeling with multi-criteria decision-making methods and expert assessments, allowing the ranking of territories by the degree of negative impact of military-technological factors. Open-source INTelligence methods, as well as APIs from NASA FIRMS, Harvest Data Catalog, European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), and high-resolution multispectral satellite images are used to obtain initial data. The aim is to obtain maps of the distribution of land degradation risk index for various scenarios of impact intensity.

Project overview

Period: 01/2024 - 12/2025

Funding: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Member: Svitlana Kuznichenko (Researcher)