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The regional-thematic structure of the atlas envisages 
regarding materials with IO-I2 test areas in different natural 
regions of the Soviet Union and GDR taken as examples. The test 
areas are picked up in such a way that their instance should 
enable consistent description of using images in the studies of 
water bodies and land, ranging from geological-geomorphological 
and landscape to economic-geographical studies. 
Each section, opening up with a colour synthesized image 
of the study area with the conjunction scheme and the textual 
description of the territory, gives image interpretation results 
in the form of thematic maps, largely, at scale I:400 000 — 
I:500 000 with brief textual commentaries. The basic themes are 
provided with explanations and recommendations as to the methods 
of multiband image thematic interpretation. 
The introductory part comprises, besides the title page, 
introduction and contents, a gpecial page devoted to the method 
of multiband space photography and the MKF-6 camera, as well as 
another page with the plate conjunction scheme. Further materials 
are presented according to the test areas, each provided with 
a photograph, followed, then, by all the thematic and methodical 
materials on the area under consideration. 
Methodical issues are taken care of in the case of several 
test areas, representing territories of different types: 
The North-eastern Caspian - shallow waters; 
The coast of the Okhotsk Sea and the coast of the Baltic 
8ea - coastal areas; 
The Northern and central areas of GDR - plain areas with 
intensive land use; 
Central Yakutia - plain north-taiga areas, areas of 
thermokarst development; 
‘The Northern Baikal region, the Southern Baikal region - 
mountain-taiga areas; 
South-east Kazakhstan - semi-desert piedmont areas and 
intermontane depressions; 
Ferganskaya valley, Golodnaya steppe - areas of irrigated 
farming of Central Asia; 
The Pamiro-Alay region - mountain areas of Central Asia. 
The atlas presents a wide variety of trends of Earth 
exploration. It embraces image application in the following fields 
of geographical studies and thematic mapping: shallow water 
studies — bottom landforms, bottom sediments, underwater vegeta- 
tion, underwater landscapes; landforms studies - tectonic 
structure, geomorphology; glaciological and hydrological studies - 
the study of glaciation, thermokarst relief, channel processes, 
water body pollution with river flow discharge; the study and 
mapping of soil-vegetation cover and landscapes - vegetation of 
arid areas, south-taiga and north-taiga, mountain forests, arid 
and mountain-taiga landscapes; physical-geographical territorial 
subdivision; agricultural studies - the mapping of land use and 
crops; the study of populated places and settlement pattern; the 
study of anthropogenic impact upon the natural environment and 
conservation. 
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