Remote Sensing Applications for Flood Defense Plans for the Hilandar Monastery
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LT2 7st Workshop on Temporal Analysis of Satellite Images REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS FOR FTOOD DEFENSE PLANS FOR THE HILANDAR MONASTERY Milutin P Stefanovii milut in. st ef anovic @j cer ni. co. r s President of the Torrent and Erosion Control Association of Serbia Serbia http : / /www. udruzenj ebuj icara.com Irina L Milovanovic irin a. milovanov ic @j cer ni. co. r s Serbia Jelena Cotrii j elenac otr i c @ gm ail c om Serbia Keywords: torrentia,l floods, erosion, sediment transport Abstract: Hilandar is a Serbian monastery located on the north slopes of Mount Athos, which is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state. It is situated on the easternmost leg of the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece. The Mount Athos peninsula is part of the Rhodope mountain range and sepa^rates the Greek geologic complex from the Balkans. In geological terms, it consists of mainly granite and quartz. Under the influence of local climate and other factors, particularly erosion, this compound is deteriorating at the surface contact zone. Silt that is formed by the decomposition of rock mass and erosion processes reaches streams and rivers, and with every torrential event forms deposits near walls, endangering the Hilandar monastery complex. Part of the monastery walls, churches and holy sites were devastated in the great fire of 2004 when wooden structures from the chimneys caught fire, It was determined that the cause of the fire was the subsiding of the chimney structures that was in turn caused by intense torrential floods in 2003. With the use of remote sensing, satellite imagery, the land cover was determined for the purpose of hydrologic, erosion and sediment production analyses. This facilitated the design and preparation of technical documentation for flood protection of the Hilandar monastery.
Remote Sensing Applications for Flood Defense Plans for the Hilandar Monastery
