V. Yefremenko, A. Moshkov, A. Semenov, T. N. Chimitdorzhiyev
{"title":"USE OF FALSE-COLOR SCANNER IMAGERY TO DETECT VEGETATION STRESS","authors":"V. Yefremenko, A. Moshkov, A. Semenov, T. N. Chimitdorzhiyev","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642093","url":null,"abstract":"A three-band method for the processing of false-color imagery is proposed and the possibility of its use in monitoring regional ecosystems is examined, using the area affected by the accident at the Chernobyl' Nuclear Power Plant as an example. A three-band processing algorithm and research method based on the use of vegetation indices and employed in detecting areas with stressed vegetation are presented.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116030456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASSESSMENT OF MARINE OIL POLLUTION USING KOSMOS-1870 AND ALMAZ-1 RADAR IMAGES","authors":"Y. Y. Ivanov","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642092","url":null,"abstract":"Radar imagery of sea-surface pollution by oil and surfactants from a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) from the Kosmos-1870 and Almaz-1 spacecraft is described and analyzed, and a classification based on visual interpretation keys is presented. The possibilities of using a 9.6 cm SAR for monitoring surface pollution, determination of imaging conditions, and keys for identification of oil pollution are discussed. The advantages and limitations of SAR for the monitoring of marine oil spills are demonstrated on the basis of an analysis.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130941785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“NOT FOR US TO FORESEE…,” OR ABOUT FUTURE MAPS","authors":"A. Berlyant","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642088","url":null,"abstract":"A second paper from a national conference on the status of cartography on the eve of a new millennium (see the preceding paper by A. A. Lyutyy in this issue for the first) examines the relationship between cartography's future development and geographic information technologies. The author argues that prediction of the future of cartography, and of the properties of future maps, will prove a difficult exercise at best, inasmuch as it cannot be based on the simple extrapolation of present trends. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, seriya geograficheskaya, 1998, No. 1, pp. 116-121.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132862860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CARTOGRAPHY ON THE EVE OF A NEW MILLENNIUM","authors":"A. A. Lyutyy","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642087","url":null,"abstract":"One of Russia's foremost cartographers surveys the status of cartography on the eve of the 21st century, in a review of research presented at a plenary session of a recent national cartographic conference of the Russian Federation. The focus is on how changes in scientific paradigms (toward a so-called phenomenological paradigm) have been accompanied by the appearance of new products and modes of communication and information transmission. These, in turn, have generated needs for new programs of mass-based cartographic education and new scientific production institutes for the design and testing of new mapping technologies. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, seriya geograficheskaya, 1998, No. 1, pp. 8-17.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129525878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RADAR IMAGERY OF WETLANDS AREAS OF THE MESHCHERA LOWLAND, RUSSIA","authors":"A. Zhirov, A. Monakhov","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642094","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"2 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120985713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CHANGES IN NATURAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN KALMYKIA ASSOCIATED WITH THE RISING LEVEL OF THE CASPIAN SEA","authors":"Ye. I. Kupriyanova, O. Trapeznikova","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642091","url":null,"abstract":"Space images were used to study changes in natural conditions along the Kalmyk coast of the Caspian Sea as a consequence of the rise in its level since 1977. An associated elevation of the water table inland from the coast, an intensification of water-logging, and a reduction of the stability of wetland natural communities were phenomena accompanying this rise. The potential influence of the rising sea level on changes in land use in different areas was investigated. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. seriya geograficheskaya, 1997, No. 6, pp. 90-97.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114409928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Kravtsov, A. V. Kuz’min, O. Y. Zavrova, L. Mitnik, M. Mityagina, K. Sabinin, Yu. G. Trokhimovskiy
{"title":"POLARIZATION FEATURES OF RADAR IMAGES OF INTERNAL WAVES ON THE OCEAN SURFACE","authors":"Y. Kravtsov, A. V. Kuz’min, O. Y. Zavrova, L. Mitnik, M. Mityagina, K. Sabinin, Yu. G. Trokhimovskiy","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642089","url":null,"abstract":"Radar images of the ocean in two polarizations are analyzed to determine whether surface manifestations of internal waves are formed predominantly by the non-resonance mechanism of interaction of radio waves. Nonresonance scattering and resonance (Bragg) scattering are compared in terms of their degree of dependence on the type of polarization of the incident wave, for the purpose of determining whether a wider selection of polarization options will afford improvements in the detection and analysis of processes occurring at the ocean-atmosphere interface.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124598604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST SERIES OF GENERAL MAPS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION","authors":"N. N. Komedchikov","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642083","url":null,"abstract":"The content and process of publication of the first standardized series of general reference maps of the Russian Federation are described. A lengthy table presents information about map scale, publication date, and level of detail (depiction of internal political boundaries) for each general reference map in the series. Information also is presented on the extent to which the new general reference maps correspond with existing topographic maps of the Russian Federation. The paper addresses minor problems with respect to lack of uniformity (intactness) in visual layout, in generalization of map inserts, and in final reproduction and currency of information. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, seriya geograficheskaya, 1997, No. 5, pp. 137-141.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115371981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"USE OF FIELD PHOTOMETRY TO DETECT GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALIES FROM VEGETATION STRESS","authors":"V. Surin","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1998.10642082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1998.10642082","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the possibility of detecting and studying low-contrast soil geochemical anomalies on the basis of photometric characteristics of indicator plants. An initial section of the paper outlines basic patterns of change in the photometric properties of vegetation as a result of vegetation stress induced by elevated levels of certain chemical elements in the soil. A subsequent section presents the results of an experiment testing this relationship in an area of pyrite mineralization in the Lake Ladoga region of northwestern Russia.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131749335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}