ISP - IUFRO SYMP. 
FREIBURG - ‘78. 
SUBSURFACE WATER ENVIRONMENT 
AND THE RECONNAISSANCE OF IT 
BY AEROSPACE METHODS IN 
HUNGARY 
by O. RADAT 
Key words: subsurface water, linear features, structural 
lines, tectonics, pedo- and lithosphere,environ- 
mental protection, pollution, destroyed water- 
balance, observation boreholes, water-supply,de- 
watering shafts, artificial recharge; 
aerospace geology, LANDSAT, convection cells, 
asteroid craters, "palimpsest" pattern. 
THE "EXPANSION OF THE ENVIRONMENT" 
Time seems to accelerate since the impact of human activity 
on the Blue Planet is day-by-day growing and getting faster 
Environment was formerly bound to the surface of the Earth 
— the biosphere, By now the "expansion of the environment" 
became a reality. The boundaries of the presence of man,and 
our interest is more-and-more broadening. From space to the 
abyssal depth of the oceans — and even into deep parts of 
the lithosphere:does endeavour man, and by these activities 
vast areas of the Globe became already destroyed, contami- 
nated, polluted or poisoned,The exploitation of the natural 
resources is the main reason —beyond scientific exploration 
— of these interferences, Those areas of the atmosphere, 
which are touched have to be at least partly restored, and 
those which were not yet influenced have to be protected. 
SUBSURFACE WATER AS A PRECIOUS MINERAL 
Clear water is a very presious "raw material" and clean 
subsurface water will be soon one of the most important 
"minerals", Thus all efforts have to be used in order to 
get reliable data about the present state and future of the 
aguifers of the Earth’s crust. 
Subsurface water is filling the discontinuities -— pores, 
joints etc, — of the soil- and rock-masses, Thus tectonics 
and lithology are of great importance, 
MINES AND KARSTWATER 
In Hungary mines are almost everywhere in contact with sub- 
surface water -— since the minerals, ores are often depos- 
  
Dr,Odón Rádai sen,res.associate 
Research Centre for Water Resources Development 
/NITUKI/ H-1095 Budapest, Kvassay Jenó ut 1. 
HUNGARY