Figure 1.
The scheme of the location of Kaharlyk on the territory of the Kyiv region, Ukraine.
Table 1.
The main indicators of Kaharlyk according to the master plan data.
| 2013 | 2036 | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential buildings, including: | 316.9 | 461.0 |
| homestead | 306.2 | 447.5 |
| Landscape recreation area, including: | 237.2 | 256.7 |
| public use | 100.8 | 179.8 |
| forests | 136.4 | 76.9 |
| Special purpose green spaces | – | 105.5 |
| Agricultural enterprises | 1087.7 | 865.7 |
| Water | 87.6 | 87.6 |
| Wetlands | 74.5 | – |
| Open lands without vegetation cover | 1.2 | 38.5 |
| The area of the whole town | 2130.7 | 2280.0 |
| Population, thousands | 13.8 | 16.0 |
Table 2.
Distribution of sampling units by land cover types.
| Land cover class | Land cover subclass | Sampling volume |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | Forest stands | 60 |
| Reforestation | 42 | |
| Parks | 14 | |
| Homestead wood vegetation | 38 | |
| Grassland | Meadows | 8 |
| Grassland with shrubs | 39 | |
| Grassland with single trees | 63 | |
| Cropland | Arable land | 97 |
| Orchards | 158 | |
| Urban (Buildings) | Multi-storey buildings | 21 |
| Private building | 150 | |
| Infrastructure | 44 | |
| Wetland | Rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps | 16 |
| Total | – | 750 |
Table 3.
Errors matrix in fractions of the total number of observations.
| Classification | Reference class | Total | Accuracy | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | User’s | Producer’s | ||
| 1 – Forest | 0.146 | 0.019 | 0.008 | 0.015 | 0.188 | 0.777 | 0.711 | |
| 2 – Grassland | 0.011 | 0.067 | 0.016 | 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.100 | 0.676 | 0.455 |
| 3 – Cropland | 0.011 | 0.039 | 0.287 | 0.031 | 0.368 | 0.780 | 0.859 | |
| 4 – Urban | 0.038 | 0.019 | 0.020 | 0.240 | 0.004 | 0.321 | 0.748 | 0.828 |
| 5 – Wetland | 0.004 | 0.003 | 0.001 | 0.015 | 0.023 | 0.647 | 0.688 | |
| Together | 0.205 | 0.148 | 0.335 | 0.290 | 0.022 | 1.000 | – | – |
Figure 2.
Map of land cover types of Kaharlyk as of 2021.
Figure 3.
Dynamics of land cover in Kaharlyk from 1991 to 2021 (%).
Table 4.
Elements of green areas of Kaharlyk by 10-year intervals (%).
| Categories | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | 4.73 | 4.74 | 4.98 | 4.85 |
| Islet | 2.93 | 2.79 | 2.55 | 2.58 |
| Perforation | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.10 | 0.11 |
| Edge | 6.94 | 7.25 | 7.12 | 6.80 |
| Loop | 0.27 | 0.36 | 0.39 | 0.43 |
| Bridge | 1.44 | 1.39 | 1.25 | 1.36 |
| Branch | 3.22 | 3.25 | 3.34 | 3.44 |
| Background | 80.44 | 80.10 | 80.28 | 80.43 |
| Core Opening | 0 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.03 |
| Border Opening | 0.52 | 0.60 | 0.56 | 0.64 |
Figure 4.
Dynamics of urban forest connectivity on the territory of Kaharlyk.
Figure 5.
Sankey plot showing the transition of land cover types in Kaharlyk during 1991–2021. Colored bars represent the proportion of land cover for a given year. The width of the gray connecting bands visualizes the redistribution of land cover area between other classes.