RADAR IMAGERY OF WETLANDS AREAS OF THE MESHCHERA LOWLAND, RUSSIA

Abstract

Two Russian specialists on radar imagery examine its utility in the identification and mapping of different natural communities and land-use types associated with boggy areas in the central portion of European Russia. Special emphasis is placed on the development of interpretation keys for particular subtypes of lowland, transitional, and upland bogs using 1:100,000 scale radar imagery recorded in April and May. A series of interpretation maps is presented. Translated from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 1997, No. 4, pp. 191-194.