JOINT USE OF SPECTROZONAL AND RAD 10-THERMAL
IMAGES OF MICROWAVE RANGE IN PROBLEMS OF
INTERPRETATION OF AEROSPACE SURVEY RESULTS
Dr. E. Maslovsky, Dr. V. Troitsky,
Dr. Yu. Shestopalov
State Scientific-Research and Production
Centre ’’PRIRODA” of Main Administration
of Geodesy and Cartography of the USSR.
Itrzhizhanovskogo, 14, Korpus 2,
117801, Moscow, V—218, GSP-7, USSR
The spectrozonal (multizonal) aerospace survey methods
are among the most informative methods in the Earth remote
sensing. But possessing certain known advantages they do
not enable many-sided investigations of the object being
sensed, for instance, its internal structures, due to low
penetrating power of electromagnetic waves of this wave
length range and the effect of various atmospheric factors
on their propagation.
To widen the sphere of effective use of the materials
of these surveys it is necessary to attract the data ob
tained by other all-weather methods operating in the wave
length bands possessing certain amount of penetrating power.
These advantages are characteristic for the radio-phy
sical remote sensing methods, and in particular the micro-
wave - radiometry methods.
Let us consider in the theoretical and practical-ap
plication aspects the possibility of joint use of radio-
thermal and spectrozonal (multizonal) images for increasing
the amount of information contained in the latter. Such
problem may arise in refining boundaries between the out
lines (for instance, ’’land-water’ 1 ), in discriminating
boggy areas of terrain, in topographic survey of objects
covered with snow or ice (for instance, in mapping the
Antarctica), in assessing fire-hazardness of forests, mak
ing the special thematic maps, etc.
