Special UNISPACE III volume

Marsteller, Deborah

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Persistent identifier:: 856485039

Author:: Marsteller, Deborah

Title:: Special UNISPACE III volume

Sub title:: including: ISPRS Workshop on "Resource Mapping from Space", ISPRS-EARSeL Workshop on "Remote Sensing for the Detection, Monitoring and Mitigation of Natural Disasters", ISPRS-NASA Seminar on "Environment and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development", July 1999, Vienna, Austria

Scope:: IV, 170 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1999

Place of publication:: Coventry

Publisher of the original:: RICS Books

Identifier (digital):: 856485039

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: ISPRS/NASA Seminar on "Environment and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development"

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Title:: NEW RUSSIAN ATLAS "SPACE METHODS FOR GEOECOLOGY". V. Kravtsova

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International Archives of Photogrammetiy and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII Part 7C2. UNISPACE in. Vienna. 1999 156 I5PR5 v^y UNISPACE III-ISPRS/NASA Seminar on “Environment and Remote Sensing for Sustainable De\’elopment” 9:00 am -12:00 pm, 23 July 1999, VIC Room A Vienna, Austria NEW RUSSIAN ATLAS “SPACE METHODS FOR GEOECOLOGY" V. Kravtsova Leading Researcher. Faculty of Geography Moscow State University' Moscow, Russia The methods of remotely-sensed images usage for ecological applications have been developed and presented in the new scientific-methodological atlas "Space Methods for Geoecology", prepared by geograpliers of Moscow State University. Special manuals in the form of atlases of satellite images are within the best tools for support of the geographical and ecological research and thematic mapping. The team of Moscow State University geograpliers, in cooperation with other organisations, have developed and edited a series of such atlases. The first two volumes were devoted to processing of multispectral imagery; they were prepared in the international cooperation within the frame of "Intercosmos" and published in 1982 and 1988 in Berlin in three languidges: Russian, English and German. The following triad is the presentation basis in the atlases: satellite images - interpretation techniques - interpretation results. Now Faculty' of Geography MSU had compiled the third - ecologically oriented - volume. Tlie new atlas reflects the interaction of astronautics and ecology. It generalises the experience and achivements on space methods application in geoecology up to the middle 1990's, shows the ways of satellite images use in geoecological monitoring and for investigation and solution the ecological problems. It lias been compiled in cooperation with specialists of 15 organisations in Russia; there were 96 specialists involved in its compilation. The Atlas was printed by financial support of Russian Space Agency. The new atlas consists of 108 sheets which includes dozens of colour images, mainly from Russian spacecraft, as well as the results of their interpretation, thematic ecological maps, compiled on the base of the imagery, and short explanation text on methods of interpretation and possibilities of satellite images usage in investigations of ecological problems and decision making. The issue covered range from global ecological problems, represented in quite general manner, up to the more specific regional and local problems, characterised in more detail. A short section of the Atlas is devoted to global ecological problems investigation: global climate warming, vegetation biomass loss, plutoplanktone concentration, ozon layer depletion. In the group of regional problems, the common problems for all geographical zones are presented first, within them : sea level fluctuations, air pollution and water contamination. Ecological problems of coastal regions connected with sea level fluctuations are show n through the examples of Aral sea area, where they are stipulated by sea receiding, and Caspian sea coastal zone, where they are provoked by sea level rise. One of examples is Sulak River delta, where erosion and flooding processes have lead to ecological problems of Sulak settlement. Remotely sensed images usage for water contamination control is examined for sea waters at example of influence of the flood prevention dam in Neva Bay, Baltic sea. Inland water bodies contamination is shown on the example of Imandra Lake, where water contamination decreased with changing the process of apatyte ore enrichment to inside watercicle. Another example is Angara River, the clearist in tire past, but now satellite image show streeps of dirty' water coused by gold exploration along right side and by timber cutting and transportation - along left side. Air pollution indicated by dirty snow cover areas in winter imagery is studied for industrial central part of the European Russia, Siberia. Urals regions, where dirty snow cover areas much bigger than areas of towns and factories. More detail description is given for regional ecological problems of Russia and neighbouring territories in different geographical zones - tundra, forests, steppes, and deserts. Problems of deforestation, erosion and desertification are the main subject of this part of the Atlas. In tundra zone, under teclmogenic impact on soil and vegetation cover on permafrost, activation of cryogenic processes takes place. Natural tundra landscapes of Eastern Siberia North are compared with damaged landscapes of Western Siberia in regions of oil and gas extraction, oil pipelines construction and tlie off-road traffic impact. Scale of deforestation in boreal forests is investigated in the Atlas by comparison of recent satellite imagery' with the old maps, compiled in the middle of last century'. It was carried out for 15 test sites in European part of Russia and interesting phenomena were discovered, in particular)' the widening of forests areas in some regions. Within the topics shown for Siberian and Far Eastern taiga regions are: cutting control, monitiring the observation of timber felling rules, results of pests outbreaks, forests fires and post-fire forest restoration control. Ecological problems of steppe zone, with its’ intensive agricultural land use. cousing development of erosion processes - linear and soil sheet erosion, humus losses - are characterised using the examples of Central Chernozem area and Northern Caucasus. Ecological problems, connected with desertification, are shown for Aral area. Tadzhikistan and Kalmykia. For tlie wide area of Aral impact - maps of modem landscape, processes of desertification, degree of desertificatioa reccomendations for its prevention are compiled using satellite images. For Amudarya delta maps of hydrogenic ecosystems for different dates and then- dynamics have been compiled. For Tedzhen and Murgab subaeral deltas in Tadzhikistan with irrigated agricultural land use the following issues have been studied: processes of secondary soil salinisation as the result of irrigation water discharge, marshland formation under the influence of water percolation from irrigation canals, pasture desertification of

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