Transylvanian Rural Woods Assessment Using Aerial And Satelite Imagery

Landsat surveillance system can provide satellite images in different color spectrum, for a good contrast between woodland, cleared land and land covered by herbaceous vegetation. Currently these systems are used all over Europe, allowing authorities and various environmental organizations to monitor the forest situation closely and consistently. Based on information obtained, they may take appropriate measures for forests protection and for the afforestation of the cleared areas. By the end of the ninth century, Romanian forests covered 80% of the entire country, and now reached a disastrous situation of only 26.76% of the country surface. Unfortunately, the implementation of satellite surveillance system in the early years after the revolution in our country was not intended because of various presumed security reasons and then never desirable, because the timber mafia has been growing too big and reached a level too high to be stopped so easily. However, Romania`s accession into the European Union, involved a series of regulations that must be accomplished, being a chance in this Landsat surveillance direction. Because we are asked to take a number of measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and to raise the percentage of forested areas up to 30%, according to the European average and ecological limits. So we can only hope that in the future we will implement satellite monitoring system, through which we shall be able to act more effectively in the event of illegal deforestation or why not in the case of natural disasters that can damage large forest areas.