POTENTIALITIES OF ECOLOGICAL MAPPING

4th International Scientific Conference - SGEM2004, www.sgem.org, SGEM2004 Conference Proceedings/ ISBN: 954-918181-2, June 14-18, 2004, 369- 378pp

ABSTRACT

The report presents a definition of ecological mapping and classification of maps
represented environmental pollution. Examples of mapping on ecological theme in Bulgaria
are presented – ecological atlas, ecological maps illustrated statistical data, student’s works
and maps for school atlases. The themes of data collection, cartographic methods of
representation and mapping of ecological elements give potentialities of ecological mapping.
As a result of experiments in this kind of mapping a way for a complex mapping of ecological
situation of environment is presented.