Lecturers of the Department of Geodesy, Cartography and Land Management

Natalia Polyakova

Associate Professor, Department of Geodesy and Cartography,
Candidate of Geographical Sciences
Master’s degree in Land Management

Research profile:

Education:

1990–1994 – Junior Specialist in Cartography (qualification: Cartographic Technician), Kyiv Topographical College
1995–2001 – Bachelor’s degree in Cartography (qualifications: cartographer, manager, geographer, lecturer) from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
2001–2005 – Postgraduate studies in ‘Geographical Cartography’ at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
2022–2023 – Master’s degree in Geodesy and Land Management, specialisation in Land Management and Cadastre, IIO, Kyiv University of Construction and Architecture

 

Academic degree:

2005 – Candidate of Geographical Sciences, specialisation: Geographical Cartography, thesis topic

“Cartographic support for the functioning of an integrated GIS for the management of urban underground utilities (using the city of Kyiv as an example)” (supervisor – Prof. V.O. Shevchenko, PhD in Geography)

 

Work experience:

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

2006–2011: Junior Research Fellow at the Research Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics and, concurrently, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Geodesy and Cartography

Since 2011, Assistant Lecturer, and from 2015 to the present, Associate Professor at the Department of Geodesy and Cartography

 

Professional development:

  • 2025 Certificate of professional development under the programme ‘Application of Space and Geoinformation Systems in the Interests of National Security and Defence’, National Defence University of Ukraine, 0.2 ECTS credits

  • 2025 Certificate of professional development under the programme ‘Current trends in the development of geodesy, land management and natural resource use’, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Odesa State Agrarian University

  • 2025 Certificate of professional development under the programme ‘Vision of the Future: Community Reconstruction Using the Example of Mariupol’ PROMETHEUS

  • 2025 Certificate of professional development under the programme ‘Modern Technologies in Land Management, Cadastre and Land Resource Management’ State Institution ‘Kyiv Aviation Institute’ 0.3 ECTS credits

  • 2023 Certificate of professional development under the programme “Safety Rules in Wartime and Emergency Situations” Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 4 ECTS credits

  • 2023 Internship at the Land Management Department of the Boryspil Territorial Community under the programme “Organisation of Land Management Works in the Boryspil Territorial Community”

Main areas of research:

features of the contemporary development of the land resource management system in Ukraine; the evolution of spatial land-use planning in Ukraine and other countries; the system of land organisation and protection in the context of sustainable (balanced) land use; geospatial analysis of land properties taken into account in land management.

 

Publications:

Author and co-author of around 80 scientific and educational works.

 

Monographs: ‘Cartographic Interpretation of Certain Features of the City of Kyiv’ (2007, co-author), ‘Explanatory Mini-Dictionary. Cartosemiotics’ (2009, co-author).

Textbook ‘Metrology and Standardisation’ (2015).

Teaching guides: Teaching and learning package ‘Regulatory and Technical Support for Operations’ (co-author, 2025), Lecture notes ‘Metrology, Certification and Standardisation’ (2023)

 

Selected articles:

Analyzing Slope Steepness for Sustainable Agricultural Land Management in the Vinnytsia Urban Territorial Community Using GIS Fifth EAGE Workshop on Assessment of Landslide Hazards and Impact on Communities 15–18 September 2025, Ukraine SCOPUS DOI: https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.2025520002

Monitoring of factors of the development of erosion processes in Boryspil District International Conference of Young Professionals ‘GeoTerrace-2023’ SCOPUS DOI: https://www.earthdoc.org/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.2023510094

Monitoring of green areas using remote sensing technologies International Conference of Young Professionals ‘GeoTerrace-2022’ SCOPUS DOI: https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.2022590075

Remote sensing of the Earth and GIS technology in monitoring surface

water pollution using the example of the Kremenchug reservoir SCOPUS DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.2022590069

Geoinformation support for national aviation Problems of continuous geographical education and cartography. Collection of scientific papers. Issue 33 – Kharkiv: Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2021. – pp. 41–50. Category B collection DOI: 10.26565/2075-1893-2021-33-05

 

Developed and teaches the following courses:

‘Land Management’, ‘Theory of Land Relations and Land Resource Management’, ‘Geospatial Analysis and Modelling’, ‘Natural Resource Cadastres’, ‘Regulatory and Technical Support for Activities’, ‘Metrology, Certification and Standardisation’.

 

2007 – participant in the 23rd ISA ASI

2008 – awarded a certificate of merit by Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv for outstanding achievements in research and on the occasion of Geographer’s Day

 

 

Foreign language proficiency: English – A2 level.