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