Monitoring the healthy status of urban streams

The aim of this presentation was to demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach to monitoring the health of urban streams using remote sensing, ground-based approaches and GIS, and to show how these methods can be used to analyze the environmental impacts of urbanization on streams, with particular emphasis on soil and water quality.

This was further reinforced by presenting findings from a case study done on the Karteros stream in Crete, where urbanization, tourism, and agriculture have significantly impacted the stream’s health.

Besides that, the presentation aimed to highlight the importance of integrating remote sensing, ground monitoring, geoinformatics to accurately track environmental changes and to emphasize the connection between the health of ecosystems and human well-being, highlighting the importance of protecting urban streams for both ecological and socio-economic reasons.

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Author(s): Stratos Kokolakis, HL7