This study aims to identify potential geosites and show existing geosites in a young glacial landscape in northern Poland through a qualitative assessment of the local geoheritage. Three areas of diversified morphology and geology located within the extent of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet have been selected as the research polygons: the northeastern part of the Dobrzyń Lake District, the Lower Vistula Valley and the Kashubian Lake District. Three basic abiotic components of the environment have been analysed: geology, terrain relief and hydrology. This research is based on some specific materials including maps and photographs. Methodology of this research includes the inventory, characterization and assessment of selected areas. The final results are proposals for geosites of high educational value in each of the three investigated regions. For the northeastern part of the Dobrzyń Lake District, the creation of a geopark has been proposed, and the geosites of the Lower Vistula Valley provide the potential for a geotourist footpath to be designed. The Kashubian Lake District is characterised by the occurrence of numerous glacial landforms and sediments as well as high denivelations and a concentration of erratic boulders. Therefore, this region also has the potential to be selected for valuable geosites and the designing of a geotourist footpath.

In the following article, a method of modeling urban environment exposed to road noise pollution for the purpose of noise nuisance assessment has been proposed. In order to accomplish it, GIS technology has been applied to divide the area under study into hexagonal fields. The presented case shows an area of urban environment exposed to noise pollution by means of object feature mapping, in each of the adopted elements. An acoustic and non-acoustic analysis of spatial distribution of the researched object features with the application of the adopted assessment indicators has been conducted. In particular, as assessment indicators, the following have been used: landscape entropy (H), L Aeq (noise_sr), Simpson's diversity index (SIDI), area and length of transportation network (R a , R l), buildings (GSI) and number of stories (FSI), predominance of land cover (LIPI), equality of class distribution (SIEI), and geodiversity index (G d). The statistical analysis of the validity of the aforementioned indices has also been carried out. For the purpose of noise annoyance assessment modeling, the application of statistically relevant assessment indicators has been proposed with the special use of the neural network method.

This paper presents a selected aspect of research conducted within the Gaugamela Project, which seeks to finally identify the location of one of the most important ancient battles: the Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE). The aim of this study was to discover material remains of the Macedonian military camp on the Navkur Plain in Kurdish Iraq. For this purpose, three very high resolution satellite (VHRS) datasets from Pleiades and WorldView-2 were acquired and subjected to multi-variant image processing (development of different color composites, integration of multispectral and panchromatic images, use of principle component analysis transformation, use of vegetation indices). Documentation of photointerpretation was carried out through the vectorization of features/areas. Due to the character of the sought-after artifacts (remnants of a large enclosure), features were categorized into two types: linear features and areal features. As a result, 19 linear features and 2 areal features were found in the study area of the Mahad hills. However, only a few features fulfilled the expected geometric criteria (layout and size) and were subjected to field groundtruthing, which ended in negative results. It is concluded that no traces have been found that could be interpreted as remnants of an earthen enclosure capable of accommodating around 47,000 soldiers. Further research perspectives are also suggested.

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