Information-Modeling Technology for the Environmental Monitoring - New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science: Applications and Decision-making - page 8

Fig. 1.2 Scheme of cartographic identification of the environmental subsystem realized in the
IMTEM technology for the monitoring case of natural park Rusenski Lom in Bulgaria (Soldatov
2011; Krapivin and Shutko 2012)

form studied subsystem image and allows classi cation of spatial pixels both

contoured by subsystem territory and no owned. In particular, such identi er can

a ij

represented in the form of matrix A k ¼ where

(

k
ij lies beyond the bounds of studied territory

0 ; if pixel N N;

a ij ¼

k
ij belongs to studied territory

a; if pixel N N and object a is situated there :

As a result, the topological procedure in the studied environmental subsystem
located in territory

Ξ

of the existing database can be performed automatically taking
into account its spatial pixel hierarchy. This procedure is schematically shown in
Fig. 1.3 .