Environmental risks for the protected areas of the Ukrainian Polissya in the context of the E40 waterway project

Abstract

Object of research – impact assessment of the potential E40 IWW construction on the NRF objects. Aim оf work – to identify the potential threats to the nature reserve fund (NRF) objects as a result of the waterway implementation; to calculate the economic feasibility of the E40 river waterway and its influence on the NRF within the Ukrainian Polissya. Mehods of research: remote sensing data from the United State Geological Service, ENVI software, multispectral images Landsat-7 TM and satellite images of high resolution Sentinel-2.