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According to the official statistics the areas of abandoned agricultural land in Lithuania are gradually decreasing, but very slightly. The aim of this study is to research spatial determination and abandoned land classification in the territory of Vilnius District Municipality. Vilnius District Municipality was chosen for the research because it, although located near the capital of the country and has a high population density, it is still the district having the largest percent of abandoned land plots. A fast, cost-effective and sufficiently accurate method for determination of abandoned land plots would allow to constantly monitor, to fix changes and foresee the abandoned land plots reduction possibilities. In the study there was used the multispectral RGB and NIR colour Sentinel-2 satellite images, the layer of the administrative boundary of Vilnius County and layer of abandoned agriculture land, which is available in Lithuanian Spatial Information Portal (www.geoportal.lt). The data was processed by Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques using classical classification Region Growing Algorithm. The research shows that NIR image classification result is more reliable than the result from RGB images.

The analytical analysis of the metamaterial boundary with the rotational disorder reveals both bound and leaky surface plasmon (SP) modes. The dispersion relations of SPs propagating on a surface of these metamaterials are presented along with the propagation lengths. The rigorous modeling and analysis of surface waves at the boundary of two metamaterials possessing rotational disorder are presented. Dispersion properties of two different metamaterial boundaries have been investigated. The results show that the boundary of the metamaterials having different dielectrics employed allows for the presence of the particular modes crossing the light line with the significant portion at lower frequencies lying above the free space light line.