ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN LAND COVER STRUCTURE USING RING-SHAPED POLYGONS OF EVALUATION, ON THE EXAMPLE OF SELECTED AREAS OF SLOVAKIA, POLAND AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC.

The objective of this paper is the assessment of the share of individual land cover categories in centric and ring-shaped evaluation polygons. In the analyses the data from the Corine Land Cover project for 2006 and 2012 were used. These data are available through the Urban Atlas. The basic spatial statistics concerning the land cover categories were determined. As a result of the analyses, information about land cover changes that took place over a period of 6 years was obtained, observed with increasing distance from the assumed reference point. An inference was also made regarding the possibility of determining the changes taking place in selected units in the period of 2006-2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]