World Heritage and Biosphere Reserve

            Bialowieza / Belovezhskaya forest

The Bialowieza/Belovezhskaya forest is considered to be the biological riches lowland forest in Europe. The forest

is situated 2/3 in Belarus and 1/3 in Poland.  Although, more than 2000 scientific papers have been produced on

the forest, no detailed common map exist over the forest that is revealing the composition and diversity of the forest.

The project established the cross-border forest compartment grid, established a GIS facility in Belovezhskaya

Pushcha National Park and made a cross-border Landsat based forest classification with 45 covers. The classification

contain more than 12 classes that can be directly linked to old growth, dead-wood and high moss appearance.

Biodiversity analysis is based upon richness filters of old growth. Biodiversity analysis and various types of data for

daily management have been integrated into the GIS / forest compartments. The overall result will enhance

cross-border management of the forest by the daily use of the GIS for decision support, Further, will the forest base

map be used for research i.e. modeling of habitats. The above graphic file can be downloaded to be view in detail.

Client: COWI / DANCEE (2002-2003), Poster as above 1.3 mb

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