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The research aims to study recent Antarctic plate kinematics based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data. The research covers 60 continuous GNSS stations located on the Antarctic plate during 1994–2021. We determine the components of horizontal displacement vectors of these GNSS stations and construct the schematic map of their distribution. The results indicate that the direction of velocity vectors of horizontal displacements has a rotational nature in clockwise order. The analysis of deformation processes shows that a gradual decrease in the horizontal strain rates, maximum shear strain and area strain is taking place from west to east, in the direction of West Antarctica – the Transantarctic Mountains – East Antarctica. The absolute rotation pole of the Antarctic plate in the ITRF2014/IGS14 reference frame has been determined, and the obtained values are in good agreement with recent plate models.

The purpose of the study is to analyse and interpret recent local geodynamic and seismic processes on the territory of Dnister Hydro Power Complex that appeared as a result of the additional technogenic loading due to the filling of the Dnister upper reservoir on October 26, 2012. The research was conducted based on the data from the Novodnistrovsk seismic station NDNU since 2005, the results of the 18 cycles of periodic static GNSS campaigns conducted during 2004–2018, and also the analysis of archival and literary materials. It has been established that the dominant feature of the latest stage in the development of the geological structure of the Dnister Hydropower Complex is unbreakable tectonic activity. From 2012 to 2018 a significant increase in local seismic activity on the Dnister Hydropower Complex was recorded. Obviously, the growth of local seismic activity immediately after the Dnister upper reservoir was filled with water on October 26, 2012, is associated with the phenomenon of reservoir induced seismicity. The study determined the distribution velocity of dilatation of the territory of the Dnister PSPP (Pumped-Storage Power Plant) before and after filling the Dnister upper reservoir and their schemes were constructed. The analysis of the distribution of velocity dilatation testifies an increased geodynamic activity in the places where extreme values of compression and expansion are revealed.

•General analysis of effects of waste-slide at Lviv Municipal Solid Waste Landfill with the help of UAV.•Monitoring of dangerous waste-slide area at Lviv Municipal Solid Waste Landfill.•The theoretical and methodological basis for geodetic monitoring of waste-slide in an emergency situation.