Impact of urban sprawl to cultural heritage monuments: The case study of Paphos area in Cyprus.

Urbanisation processes as a result of population growth, migration and infrastructure initiatives have a direct impact to cultural heritage sites. This paper aims to monitor growth dynamics of the urbanisation process that took place in the Paphos district, southwest Cyprus during the last decades,...

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Publicado en:Journal of Cultural Heritage Vol. 16; no. 5; pp. 671 - 681
Autores principales: Agapiou, Athos, Alexakis, Dimitrios D., Lysandrou, Vasiliki, Sarris, Apostolos, Cuca, Branka, Themistocleous, Kyriacos, Hadjimitsis, Diofantos G.
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Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Sep2015
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          Agapiou, Athos
          Alexakis, Dimitrios D.
          Lysandrou, Vasiliki
          Sarris, Apostolos
          Cuca, Branka
          Themistocleous, Kyriacos
          Hadjimitsis, Diofantos G.
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          Remote Sensing and Geo-Environment Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Cyprus University of Technology, 2-6, Saripolou str., 3603 Limassol, Cyprus
          Restoration of Monuments and Sites, Kykkos Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
          Laboratory of Geophysical-Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (FORTH), Crete, Greece
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        Urban growth
        Cultural property
        Monuments
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          Paphos (Cyprus)
          Greece
          Urban growth
          Cultural property
          Monuments
          Urbanization
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        Markov model
        Monitoring cultural heritage sites
        Satellite image classification
        Spectral vector machine
        Urban sprawl
      ab: Urbanisation processes as a result of population growth, migration and infrastructure initiatives have a direct impact to cultural heritage sites. This paper aims to monitor growth dynamics of the urbanisation process that took place in the Paphos district, southwest Cyprus during the last decades, and evaluate its impact to monuments and archaeological sites. In this extensive area, several important archaeological sites and monuments are found, while some of them are also listed in the UNESCO catalogue of World Cultural Heritage sites. GIS and remote sensing techniques have been used in order to map the listed monuments in the Paphos District, as well as to record spatial and temporal land use changes since the 1980s. The spatial patterns of urban sprawl are studied and analysed using archive time series medium resolution Landsat ETM+ and TM satellite imagery. In addition, a DMSP-OLS night-ime image was also used. Several supervised and unsupervised classification algorithms have been evaluated and examined for this purpose. Additionally, Markov equation were applied in an attempt to predict future urban expansion The final outcomes revealed that a dramatic increase of the urban areas took place in the last years in Paphos district, and as a result significant pressure is expected on archaeological sites found in the peri-urban areas.
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