THE COMPOSITING DEVICES FOR PHOTOIMAGES OF MK-4 
CAMERA AND PREPARATION OF PHOTOMOSAICS AND 
PHOTOSKETCHES ON THESE DEVICES 
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The photographic methods of remote sensing of 
the Earth from the satellite for studying natural 
resources and environment protection have been widely 
practised in the USSR. The bulk of multispectral 
space photodata is acquired by unmanned satellite of 
"COSMOS” series. Since 1989 new satellites of this 
series have been put into operation and they are 
equipped with new photometrically precise topographic 
multispectra1 photographic camera MK—■4 . The camera 
allows to get spectral images of the Earth's surface 
in four surveying bands of 18x18 frame size, these 
images can be used for both analog and digital 
processing and have the ground resolution of 6 meters 
at the survey scale of 1:800 000 and survey strip 
width equal to 0.6 of the satellite altitude. The 
survey is done with foreward and side overlap 
necessary for photogrammetric procecssing. 
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