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Aerial Photography

Aerial photography is the best tool for documentation of an actual vegetation cover. During winter of the year 2004 I have planned and successfully constructed a special remotely sensed model of airplane with span of 1.5 m and weight of 0.9 kg. This airplane powered by electric motor can fly with a small digital camera PENTAX OPTIO 4.0 Mpix. The flight time is about 8-10 minutes in the maximum altitude about 150-250 m above the landscape.

All next photographs were taken in nature protected areas of thermophilous non-forest vegetation in surrounding of the Brno city, Czech Republic. 

Abandoned limestone quarry at the locality Stránská skála near Brno

Lysá hora hill with remnants of steppic grasslands and open oak forests

Ricka river valley near Brno with oak, oak-hornbean forests and steppic grasslands

Stepic grasslands at the southern slope of Hady hill with flowering Crataegus trees

Balcarka limestone hill with famous cave in Moravian karst

Velka Klajdovka - eastern part of nature reserve with thermophilous shrub vegetation