As a result of the work carried out, it was determined that an algorithm can be used to determine areas that may be affected by wind erosion, which allows automating some stages of determining areas that may be affected by wind erosion. The results of the work can be used in the formation of spatial decisions regarding the rational use and protection of land.

The article examines the structure, content and procedure of land monitoring, features of its development and legal regulation, substantiates the need to monitor the state of land in the process of decentralization of power and improvement of local self-government in Ukraine. Analyzing the relevance of land monitoring to the state environmental monitoring system as its constituent part, it was established that the specified norm is absent in the Regulation on land monitoring, which does not allow these monitoring to be considered a single system. The Regulations approved by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy on February 26, 2004 regarding soil monitoring have not yet been codified, and the agrochemical system of land certification as one of the sources of obtaining reliable information about soil cover has not been streamlined. It has been recognized as natural and timely to introduce monitoring of land relations and the development of pilot projects for their implementation and implementation in the country from September 1, 2017. The objects of this monitoring are presented, its tasks and essence are defined, and the peculiarities of the methodology of introducing land market monitoring into the monitoring of land relations are defined. It is emphasized that the selection of monitoring indicators corresponds to the practice of developed countries. At the same time, the principles of its implementation can be considered well-founded and objective. Ways to improve the Procedure for monitoring land relations, the draft of which has been published, and the monitoring of the land market are proposed.

Scientific and methodical approaches to the development of working land management projects for the reclamation of lands disturbed by industrial production are proposed. After the completion of mining operations, their restoration, i.e. reclamation, must be carried out on the disturbed territories. Land reclamation is a complex of works aimed at restoring the productivity and economic value of disturbed lands, as well as improving environmental conditions in accordance with the interests of society. Any construction, mining, geological exploration, etc. cannot begin until a reclamation project for the disturbed soil cover is developed. Reclamation is subject to all lands undergoing changes in relief, soil cover, parent and underlying rocks that occur or have already occurred in the process of mining, construction, hydraulic engineering, geological exploration and other works.

The current state of agricultural lands, especially those damaged as a result of emergency situations and hostilities, is analyzed. It has been proven that the algorithm for removing lands damaged as a result of military operations from agricultural circulation must be fixed at the legislative level by making appropriate amendments and additions to the Land Code of Ukraine, Laws of Ukraine: "On Land Protection", "On Land Management". The current Land Conservation Procedure should be supplemented with criteria and indicators for establishing the degree of mechanical destruction and/or chemical pollution, because the direction, content and volume of restoration works and, accordingly, the amount of their financing depend on this. It is emphasized that only a differentiated approach

The study of scientific works, normative legal acts related to issues of classification of regime-forming objects, restrictions on the use of land and land plots made it possible to identify problems related to regime-forming water objects that need to be solved. In accordance with this, the conceptual apparatus related to regime-forming water objects was considered, their list was standardized taking into account the current legal acts and the need for their classification was substantiated. As a result, a classification of regime-forming water objects is proposed, which will allow to further form the limits of restrictions along and around these objects and to develop a classification of restrictions on the use of land and land plots.

The concepts of institutions and institutional approaches are studied. On the basis of institutional approaches to the planning of sustainable use and protection of agricultural lands of individual land uses, a system of institutes was formed, which include: the Institute of Land Management, the Institute of Land Monitoring, the Institute of the State Land Cadastre, the Institute of Local Self-Government, and the Institute of Local Traditions. The importance and effectiveness of these institutions, namely as systems and their relevance, are substantiated. The tools of these institutes, which allow for planning the sustainable use and protection of agricultural lands of individual land uses, as well as their implementation, have been analysed. The institute of land management and its tools, such as land management schemes and technical and economic justifications for the use and protection of lands of administrative territorial units, territories of territorial communities, and complex plans for the spatial development of the territory of the territorial community, are analysed in detail. The need to introduce a tool of land management regulations to expand the possibilities of the institute of land management in planning the use of territories located outside of settlements is justified. The importance of the institution of land monitoring is substantiated and the urgency of creating and implementing an automated land monitoring system is emphasized. The current state of the Institute of the State Land Cadastre was investigated and the expediency of expanding the list of objects of the State Land Cadastre by adding "agricultural land use" was substantiated. It was found that the significance of the institution of local self-government in the context of planning the sustainable use and protection of agricultural lands of individual land uses increases due to the expansion of the powers of local authorities in the process of decentralization of power. The need to take into account local agricultural traditions when planning the sustainable use and protection of agricultural lands of individual land uses has been confirmed.

The article explores the development of rural areas in Ukraine. In particular, the existing general problems of rural development were identified, the ways and prospects of their solution were outlined. It is determined that the key components of rural development are production (agricultural activities and other activities not related to agriculture), social (welfare, improving the quality of human capital in rural areas, preservation of traditions, moral and spiritual values), environmental conservation of natural resources of rural areas, environmentally friendly land use). It is substantiated that the interaction of these components will allow to form a social and economic environment for sustainable development of rural areas. The article states that the successful development of rural areas is to use an integrated approach to solving problems and conscientious fulfillment of obligations, which will increase the efficiency of community budgets and stabilize the social and economic situation of communities, regions and the country as a whole.

The goal of the scientific work was to justify the need during the war in Ukraine to find a balance in the issue of limiting access to sensitive in terms of state and public security open data in the State Land Cadastre system to ensure the interests of national security and public interests. Information of interest to the aggressor should become inaccessible. This data selection should be made by the military and the Security Service and should not be publicly displayed. On the other hand – the rest of the information should be used by specialists in the field of geodesy and land management, construction and architecture, local self-government bodies with a certain number of persons with access to data.

Scientific and methodical approaches to the development of working land management projects for the reclamation of lands disturbed by industrial production are proposed. After the completion of mining operations, their restoration, i.e. reclamation, must be carried out on the disturbed territories. Land reclamation is a complex of works aimed at restoring the productivity and economic value of disturbed lands, as well as improving environmental conditions in accordance with the interests of society. Any construction, mining, geological exploration, etc. cannot begin until a reclamation project for the disturbed soil cover is developed. Reclamation is subject to all lands undergoing changes in relief, soil cover, parent and underlying rocks that occur or have already occurred in the process of mining, construction, hydraulic engineering, geological exploration and other works.

The nature reserve fund and other protected areas that have this status are of great importance for the purposes of rational use and protection of land resources. In this context, the main purpose of the study presented in this article was the formation of scientific approaches to the effective management of the lands of the nature reserve fund based on the use of modern geographic information support. It is emphasized that the area of lands of the nature reserve fund and other nature protection purposes has a low percentage and requires bringing their share to at least 15%. An important problem is the lack of projected boundaries of the lands of the nature reserve fund for most of these objects with their subsequent inclusion in the National cadastral system. An approach is proposed according to which a geospatial database is formed, which contains a set of information about all objects of the nature reserve fund and other nature conservation purposes within the territory of the Kyiv region and the results of completed land management projects on the organization and establishment of their boundaries. It is established that the formed verified geospatial data of the objects of the nature reserve fund open the possibility to improve the quality of management processes and gradual transition to decision-making based on analytical information.

Protection and rational use of land is one of the most important tasks of society in the process of using natural resources, since food supplies obtained from the use of land make up 98 percent. The article presents an analysis of the main ecological problems of land use that have arisen as a result of the full-scale war in Ukraine. The need to solve the problems of rational land use due to the cross-cutting nature of environmental policy and the development of the country based on the European Green Course, taking into account the environmental standards at all levels of policy formation and implementation in the field of environmental protection and rational nature use, through the development and implementation of land management schemes and technical and economic justifications, is substantiated use and protection of lands of administrative-territorial units, territories of communities; automated platforms, information and analytical systems and remote sensing of the Earth; criteria and technologies for monitoring land and land relations, including artificial intelligence algorithms.

The problem of land reallotment modeling in agricultural land masses aiming at land consolidation is scrutinized in the article. The topicality of the research is predefined by the need for the optimization of the structure of land tenure within an agricultural land mass, the implementation of measures on land consolidation. The research is aimed at the substantiation of the theory of combinations aiming at the improvement of the exchange of land plots, i.e. the choosing of alternative land plots within an agricultural land mass. The calculations are based on choosing the land plots to be exchanged to provide the optimal for agricultural activities spatial characteristics of land plots. The calculation of the variants of the formation of the consolidated land tenure by a land owner who has the right to own the prevailing share of a typical agricultural land mass has been suggested. The results of the research can be used at the realization of complex and individual land consolidation projects; at the optimization of land tenure by the sublease of land plots; as a material for the substantiation of the decision making on the land tenure optimization by territorial communities; in the following research on spatial land tenure and land ownership spatial improvement.

The armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine led to significant damage to the fertile soil layer in the temporarily occupied territories. Damage assessment for agricultural lands damaged by ravines requires determination of their geometric characteristics. There are two groups of methods for finding the area and volume of pits. The first group is contact geodetic research, which allows you to accurately determine the parameters of craters, but it is impossible to apply them due to the explosiveness of the territory and the large number of damaged areas. Other methods are related to the determination of geometric characteristics based on the data of remote sensing of the Earth (RS). They make it possible to quickly identify the location of explosive holes, but in wartime they are not fully available. Therefore, the complex use of remote sensing data and contact research will allow to quickly and safely determine the location and geometric characteristics of explosive craters. The purpose of the study is to develop a methodology for determining the geometric characteristics of explosive craters due to the complex use of contact and remote geodetic data in the conditions of military operations. The main tasks of the research: analysis of existing methods for determining the geometric characteristics of explosive craters; determination of the relationship between the force of the explosion and the geometric characteristics of the eruption; development of a methodology for determining damage to the fertile layer of agricultural lands from military operations using Geoinformation technologies (GIS technologies); practical implementation of the developed methodology on the example of a test plot of agricultural land. The developed technique consists in the use of geo-information technologies and data of RS to determine the location and area of explosive craters. Based on the existing statistical relationships between the TNT equivalent of the explosion and the geometric characteristics, new functions of the relationship between the radius of the rupture and the volume, depth, and TNT equivalent of the explosion were obtained. Cartographic models of the distribution of craters by volume, the density of explosive craters and their distribution by radius were built in the ArcGIS geoinformation software. The constructed geomodels made it possible to assess the degree of damage to agricultural soils and to determine the most explosive areas. Based on the obtained data, it was established that there is no correlation between the density of the holes and their radius in the presence of holes larger than 25 m. Assessment of damage to agricultural land as a result of military operations in Ukraine requires the use of images from UAVs and satellites with ultra-high spatial resolution. In the future, it is necessary to check the adequacy of the developed methodology by field geodetic methods.