“…At present, control of anthropogenic changes in vegetation and water bodies of large cities is one of the most important and urgent tasks of ecological monitoring of mega-cities all over the world. Ensuring the sustainable development of densely populated areas at an extremely high rate of urban infrastructure development is impossible without obtaining regular and reliable information about the current state and dynamics of changes in all types of objects, including vegetation and water bodies (Di, 2017, Hnatushenko, 2017a, 2017b, Kashtan, 2017, Mozgovoy, 2016. For regular updating of databases of spatial information, when actualizing maps of megacities, the data of ground measurements and aerial photographs were traditionally used.…”