Ragimov, Rauf 
  
THE USING GEOINFORMATIONAL SYSTEM (GIS) AND DATA OF REMOTE SENSING (RS) TO 
ESTIMATION OF RISING OF LEVEL OF CASPIAN SEA 
Arif MEKHTIEV, Rauf RAGIMOV, 
Tofik SULEYMANOV, Jamal ISMAILOV 
Azerbaijan National Aerospace Agency, 
370106, Azadlig avn.- 159,Baku, Azerbaijan 
e- mail: mekhtiev @ anasa.baku.az 
KEY WORDS: Caspian Sea, Geoinformation System, Database, Inundated Zone, Thematical Map, Software. 
ABSTRACT 
It is considered the problems of the estimation of dynamics of the change for the shore line of the Caspian Sea from 
1977 to 2000 for selected sites of the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic. It is also showed the forecasted estimation of 
the change of the water level for a period by 2010. It was created the electronic maps of inundated zones and it was 
conducted the accounts of the inundated squares on years from 1977 to 2010. 
It was initised the large-scale topographic sheets of scales from 1:25000 to 1:100000 as input data for creation of the 
digital model of the locality, which was basic for simulation and prediction of inundated zones. Moreover, it is showed 
the function blocks and the basic principals of the developed geoinformation system of simulation and prediction of the 
drowned territories of the coastal zone in connection of the rising level of the Caspian Sea. 
1 INTRODUCTION 
The Caspian Sea is subjected to the periodic oscillations with sharp overfalls of the water level. Up to the middle of the 
19” century the Pricaspian region was not in the number of densely populated regions of the world and just for this 
reason such natural cataclysms did not result in disastrous consequences for the person. However, in connection with 
the beginning of fissile mastering of oil pools of the Pricaspian zone of the Azerbaijan Republic and then the Caspian 
shelf, beginning since the middle of past century, the human activity in this region has increased. After 30-40 years of 
the slump of the water level, beginning since the 70s the sea level has become to increase and consequences has become 
to gain disastrous nature. The scientific researches of the physical nature of the Caspian Sea by the Azerbaijan scientists 
and other Pricaspian countries demonstrate that the rising of the water level will be till 2000 and to this time the water 
level will rise for 1 metre. Azerbaijan has faced before instant necessity to accept resolute measures for decrease of 
consequences of this phenomenon. For fast acceptance of optimal solutions it is necessary to create the controlled 
system of the scalene, authentic and operatively updated information. The development of geoinformation system is 
the most suitable variant for acceptable solution of the arisen problem. 
2 CONCEPTS OF CONSTRUCTION OF GIS "CASPY" 
2.1 Basic characteristics of the geographic data 
In the considered case GIS is a particular form of intelligence system used of topographic, remote and geographic data. 
The main purpose designed GIS is to take a decision about the change of the level of the Caspian sea. The used 
geographic data include those data which have a space binding. Main aspects of the geographic data are: 
a) A space binding is a location of space bound objects which are defined in geographic coordinate system 
(a cartographical projection); 
b) Attributes are descriptive information about spatially distributed objects (SDO); 
c) Space relations are quantitative or logical relations between SDO; 
d) Time is the time for data gathering and the life time of space and attributive data. 
  
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