Articles

2026

• Waga J.M., Sendobry K., Jochymczyk K., Pierwoła J., Grabiec M., Szypuła B., Dolejš M., Fajer M., 2025. Geophysical methods in the identification of remnants of World War II air campaigns for the purposes of spatial management (Koźle Basin, Southern Poland). Questiones Geographicae, 45, 1. DOI: 10.14746/quageo-2026-0004 PDF

2025

• Marciak M., Sobczyński D., Szypuła B., Abadi O., Mróz K. 2025. Jesus’ Itineraries in the Light of GIS Research: Three Cases studies. The Biblical Annals, 15, 3, 551-592. DOI: 10.31743/ba.18331 PDF
• Żemła-Siesicka A., Szypuła B., Myga-Piątek U., Piechota A.M. 2025. How to assess landscape changes caused by land subsidence due to deep coal mining? Methodology test in the mining area of Jastrzębie Coal Company (southern Poland). Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 115, 108025. DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108025 WWW

2024

• Szypuła B., Głogowski P., Marciak M. 2024. In search of the Plains of Gaugamela. Iranica Antiqua, 59, 63-82. DOI: 10.2143/IA.59.0.3293982 WWW
• Abadi O., Szypuła B., Marciak M. 2024. The Jerusalem Pilgrimage Road in the Second Temple Period: An Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16, 173. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02079-1 PDF
• Rahmonov O., Szypuła B., Sobala M., Islamova Z.B., 2024. Environmental and land use changes as a consequence of land reform in the Urej River catchment (western Tajikistan). Resources, 13, 59. DOI: 10.3390/resources13040059 PDF
• Pirowski T., Szypuła B. 2024. Dasymetric population mapping using building data. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.3390/rs16020388 WWW
• Michałowska K., Pirowski T., Głowienka E., Szypuła B., Malinverni E.S. 2024. Sustainable Monitoring of Mining Activities: Decision-Making Model Using Spectral Indexes. Remote Sensing, 16, 388.DOI: 10.3390/rs16020388 PDF

2023

• Wójcikowski R.S., Bonacossi D.M., Marciak M., Szypuła B. 2023. Memorials of the Battle of Gaugamela in the Navkur Plain. PARTHICA, 25, 31-84. DOI: 10.19272/202303501002 PDF
• Czajka A., Rahmonov O., Szypuła B. 2023. The natural consequences of land use change on transformation and vegetation development in the upper Odra floodplain. Water, 15, 3493.DOI: 10.3390/w15193493 PDF
• Marciak M., Sobczyński D., Abadi O., Szypuła B., Schwimer L., Čilová M. 2023. In Search of Ancient Pre-Roman Imperial Roads: A Case Study of the Application of Remote Sensing in Road Archaeology in the Southern Levant. Remote Sensing, 15, 4545. DOI: 10.3390/rs15184545 PDF
• Marciak M., Szypuła B., Sobczyński D., 2023. Searching for ancient pre-Roman imperial roads: state of research and some methodological recommendations. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01820-6 PDF
• Waga J.M., Fajer M., Szypuła B. 2023. Current and potential landscape functions of areas with the remnants of World War II bombing in the Koźle Basin, southern Poland. Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, 11, 2: 29-41. DOI: 10.2478/environ-2023-0009 PDF
• Szypuła B., 2023. Accuracy of UAV-based DEM without ground control points. GeoInformatica. DOI: 10.1007/s10707-023-00498-1  PDF



2022

• Waga J.M., Szypuła B., 2022. Dawne i współczesne możliwości inwentaryzacji zasobów przyrody i dziedzictwa kulturowego - refleksje na kanwie badań Jakuba Wagi. Studia Łomżyńskie, XXXIIa, 19-34.
• Waga J.M., Fajer M., Szypuła B., 2022. The scars of war: A programme for the identification of the environmental effects of World War II bombings for the purposes of spatial management in the Koźle Basin. Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, 10, 1: 57-67. DOI: 10.2478/environ-2022-0005 PDF


• Waga J.M., Szypuła B., Sendobry K., Fajer M., 2022. Traces of human activity in the woodlands of the “Cistercian Landscape Compositions of Rudy Wielkie” landscape park read from LiDAR data and their importance in heritage protection. Czasopismo Geograficzne, 93,1: 107-138. DOI: 10.12657/czageo-93-05 (in polish) PDF


• Waga J.M., Szypuła B., Fajer M., 2022. Heritage of war: Analysis of bomb craters using LiDAR (Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland). International Journal of Conservation Science, 13, 2: 593-608 PDF


• Myga-Piątek U., Sobala M., Szypuła B., 2022. Do national parks protect natural landscapes? Journal for Nature Conservation, 68, 126229. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2022.126229 PDF


• Rahmonov O., Czajka A., Nádudvari Á, Fajer M., Spórna T., Szypuła B. 2022. Soil and vegetation development on coal-waste dump in southern Poland. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 9167. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19159167 PDF


• Pirowski T., Szypuła B., Marciak M. 2022. Interpretation of multispectral satellite data as a tool for detecting archaeological artefacts (Navkur Plain and Karamleis Plain, Iraq). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14:166. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-022-01637-9 PDF


• Waga J.M., Szypuła B., Fajer M., 2022. The archaeology of unexploded WWII bomb sites in the Koźle Basin, southern Poland. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, DOI: 10.1007/s10761-022-00672-5 PDF


• Dobiński W., Szafraniec J.E., Szypuła B. 2022. Area and borders of Antarctic permafrost – A review and synthesis. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2170 WWW


• Waga J.M., Szypuła B., Sendobry K., Fajer M. 2022. Anthropogenic landforms derived from LiDAR data in the woodlands near Kotlarnia (Koźle Basin, Poland). Sensors, 2022, 22, 8328. DOI: 10.3390/s22218328 PDF



2021

• Faměra M., Grygar T.M., Ciszewski D., Czajka A., Álvarez-Vázquez M.A., Hron K. Fačevicová K., Hýlová V., Tůmová Š., Světlík I., Zimová K., Dvořáková K., Szypuła B., Hošek M., Henych J. 2021. Anthropogenic records in a fluvial depositional system: the Odra River along the Czech-Polish border. Anthropocene, 34, 100286. DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2021.100286 PDF


• Marciak M., Szypuła B., Sobiech M., Pirowski T. 2021. The battle of Gaugamela and the question of visibility on the battlefield. Iraq, 83:87-103. DOI: 10.1017/irq.2021.11 WWW



2020

• Szypuła B., 2020. DEM from topographic maps - as good as DEM from LiDAR? In: in Alvioli M., Marchesini I., Melelli L., Guth P. (eds.), Proceedings of the Geomorphometry 2020 Conference, p. 119-123. DOI: 10.30437/GEOMORPHOMETRY2020_34 PDF


• Szypuła B., Wieczorek M., 2020. Geomorphometric relief classification with the k-median method, Silesian Upland, southern Poland. Frontiers of Earth Science, 14(1): 152 -170. DOI: 10.1007/s11707-019-0765-9 WWW


• Godziek J., Szypuła B., 2020: Durability of forest cover in the Ochotnica Valley (Gorce Mts) and in the Solinka Valley (Bieszczady Mts) in 18th – 21st centuries. Geographia Polonica, 93(1): 69-88. DOI: 10.7163/GPol.0163 PDF


• Gądek B., Szumny M., Szypuła B., 2020. Classification of the Tatra Mountain lakes in terms of the duration of their ice cover (Poland and Slovakia). Journal of Limnology, 79(1): 70-81. DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1920 PDF


• Szypuła B., 2020. Digital adaptation of Geomorphological Map of GOP: old map – new possibilities. Journal of Maps, 16(2), 614-624. DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2020.1800528 PDF


• Sobala M., Myga-Piątek U., Szypuła B., 2020. Assessment of changes in a viewshed in the Western Carpathians landscape as a result of reforestation. Land, 9 (11), 430. DOI:10.3390/land9110430 PDF


• Marciak M., Głogowski P., Szypuła B., Pirowski T., Gomiero G. 2020. Gaugamela in the Plains of Nineveh? The Southern Location of the Battle of Gaugamela Reconsidered. Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia, 11: 60-110.



2019

• Łupikasza E., Szypuła B., 2019. Vertical climatic belts in the Tatra Mountains in the light of current climate changes. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 136, 1-2:249-264. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-018-2489-2 PDF


• Szypuła B., 2019. Quality assessment of DEM derived from topographic maps for geomorphometric purposes. Open Geosciences, 11:843-865. DOI: 10.1515/geo-2019-0066 PDF



2018

• Stefańska-Krzaczek E., Fałtynowicz W., Szypuła B., Kącki Z., 2018. Diversity loss of lichen pine forests in Poland. European Journal of Forest Research, 137, 4: 419-431. DOI: 10.1007/s10342-018-1113-4 WWW


• Łuszczyńska K., Wistuba M., Malik I., Krąpiec M., Szypuła B., 2018. Dendrochronological dating as a basis for developing a landslide hazard map – an example from Western Carpathians, Poland. Geochronometria, 45:173-184. DOI: 10.1515/geochr-2015-0093 PDF


• Godziek J., Szypuła B., 2018. A study of changes in forest cover in the Ochotnica valley in the 19th-20th centuries based on cartographic materials. Dissertations of Cultural Landscape Commission, 39(1):189-206. DOI: 10.30450/201811 PDF



2017

• Szypuła B., 2017. Quantitative studies of the morphology of the south Poland using Relief Index (RI). Open Geosciences, 9:509-524. DOI: 10.1515/geo-2017-0039 PDF



2016

• Stefańska-Krzaczek E., Kącki Z., Szypuła B., 2016. Coexistence of ancient forest species as an indicator of high species richness in Central Europe. Forest Ecology and Management, 365:12–21. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.01.012 PDF


• Szypuła B., 2016. Geomorphometric comparison of DEMs built by different interpolation methods. Landform Analysis, 32:45-58. DOI: 10.12657/landfana.032.004 PDF



2014

• Szypuła B., 2014. Quantitative changes of anthropogenic relief over the last 100 years in the Silesian Upland (south Poland). Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 58(2):175-183. DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2013/0111 PDF



2013

• Szypuła B., 2013. Spatial distribution and statistic analysis of the anthropogenic line forms in the different basic fields. Environmental & Socio-economic Studies. Vol. 1, Issue 2, 1–14. DOI: 10.1515/environ-2015-0007. PDF



2011

• Szypuła B., Wieczorek M., 2011. Geomorphometric relief analysis of the Silesian Upland using the TPI method. [In]: Żyszkowska W., Spallek W. (eds),: The main problems of modern cartography. Application of statistics in GIS and cartography. Wrocław. s. 73–82. (in polish) PDF


• Szypuła B., 2011. Analysis of the anthropogenic relief of the Silesian Upland in the light of cartographic data. Kształtowanie środowiska geograficznego i ochrona przyrody na obszarach uprzemysłowionych i zurbanizowanych, 43: 89-98. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9944228. (in polish) PDF



2010

• Szypuła B., 2010. Digital terrain models as primary data source in geomorphometry. [In]: Żyszkowska W., Spallek W. (eds), 2010: Digital elevation models in cartography. Wrocław University IGiRR, Department of Cartography. Wrocław. s. 110-121. (in polish)PDF



2009

• Szypuła B., 2009. Research on the rock strength of the Silesian Upland using Schmidt hammer. Geographia. Studia Et Dissertationes, 31: 65-80. (in polish) PDF



2008

• Szypuła B., 2008. Examples of application of cartographic-GIS analysis in the research of Silesian Upland relief. [In]: Żyszkowska W., Spallek W. (eds): Spatial analysis in cartography. Wrocław University IGiRR, Department of Cartography. Wrocław s. 79-94. (in polish)



2005

• The course of the relief research on the Silesian Upland. Geographia. Studia Et Dissertationes, 27: 171-216. (in polish)

Books

• Piechota A.M., Szypuła B., 2014. Basics of working with GIS software (ArcGIS 10). University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice. 128 pp. ISBN 978-83-939308-0-7 (in polish)


• Cieślak I., Dobińska M., Jankowska M., Kiedrowicz M., Kowalczyk A., Kulawiak M., Szuniewicz K., Szypuła B., Zwirowicz-Rutkowska A., 2015. Enhancing a city via GIS: Issues and challenges. Croatian Information Technology Society, GIS Forum. Nacionalna knjižnica, Zagreb. ISBN 978-953-6129-53-9


• Szypuła B., 2017. Digital elevation models in geomorphology. [In]: Shukla D.P. (Ed.), Hydro-Geomorphology – Models and Trends. InTech, pp. 81-112. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.68447 PDF


• Piechota A.M.,Szypuła B., 2019. GIS Basics (ArcGIS). ECDL EPP GIS. Stowarzyszenie Komputer i Sprawy Szkoły KISS. 82 s. ISBN 978-83-941515-7-7 (in polish)

Maps

• Jania J., Dulias R., Szypuła B., Tyc A., 2014. Digital geomorphological map of Poland 1:100 000 sheet Katowice. GUGiK, GEPOL, Warsaw.


• Gądek B., Szypuła B., 2015. The contemporary cryosphere. Map 1: 250 000. [In]: Tatra atlas – Inanimate nature, sheet V-1. Wydawnictwa Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego, Zakopane.


• Szypuła B. (red.), 2017. Geomorphological map of GOP 1:50 000 – digital version. WNoZ UŚ, Sosnowiec. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9904679.v1 PDF

Other

• Brański J., Czajka A., Kadłubowski A., Maciążek E., Mierkiewicz M., Sasim M., Szypuła B., Żelaziński J., 2007. Hydrological and morphological conditions and consequences of the development of the Oder waterway, Research and implementation project, 89 pp. Principal: WWF – World Wildlife Fund Project No. 542100/54000/umowa nr 07224 (in polish)


• Sitek S., Pytel S., Sitek A., Soczówka A., Szczepańska-Góra A., Szypuła B., Zuzańska-Żyśko E., 2019. Delimitation of the degraded area and revitalization area in Sosnowiec. AXIS Foundation – Initiatives Forum, Sosnowiec. 80 pp. Principal: City Hall of Sosnowiec. (in polish)