The Contribution of the Cadastre and Gis to the Spatial Restructuring and Environmental Protection of Halkidiki Greece

Until 1976 there were no high-precision maps showing the boundary between forest lands and other land uses such as agricultural land, urban areas, agglomerations, industrial sites of other activities. Forest Land Training has as its object the delimitation and registration of forest land in an accurate, transparent and definitive manner. In particular, the Forest Maps training has as an objective the time and spatial identification and mapping of forests and woodland. Forest and forest land registration aims at environmental protection of forests, forests and grassland. It also promotes the rights of the Greek State on forests, forestry and grassland in the procedures of the National Cadastre and the complete investigation of their ownership status. The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of the cadastre to a representative area, such as Halkidiki, but also more generally for the Greek area, the spatial planning, development and extension of forest areas as well as to record the changes of land cover from 1945 to 2008, demonstrating how the landscape is shaped according to the circumstance.