changes of landscape structure, historical and current landscape structure, Demänová Valley

The landscape is a certain area of the Earth?s surface that is more or less influenced by natural and anthropogenic processes and phenomena. The diversity of the landscape lies in its structure, morphology or area. It is being changed in time and space, i.e. it is under constant development. The goal of the paper is to evaluate the changes of the secondary landscape structure in the Demänová Valley by comparing the historical aerial photographs from 1949, orthophotos from 2007 and satellite images from 2013 verified by the field survey in spring 2014. The examined area had been selected on the basis of historical changes in this area, particularly the rapidly developing tourism industry and related changes. On the basis of land use planning documentation, we offer prediction of landscape structure changes in Demänová Valley, mainly related to the development of tourism infrastructure.