{"title":"AN ECOLOGICAL-LANDSCAPE MAP OF ALTAY KRAY","authors":"I. Rotanova, A. Shcherbakov","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1997.10642056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1997.10642056","url":null,"abstract":"The paper briefly reviews the design and compilation of a map of natural ecological zones in Altay Kray of West Siberia. Methodological considerations and map content are both described, and particular attention is devoted to outlining the design of the map legend—a matrix consisting of categories of land use/use intensity (rows) and types of human impact on the environment (columns). Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 1996, No. 2, pp. 140-142.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130514062","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":"INDIRECT IMAGE INTERPRETATION KEYS IN THE STUDY OF SHALLOW SEAS","authors":"N. Mitina","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1997.10642055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1997.10642055","url":null,"abstract":"Because of the difficulties in the study of the coastal zone, a search for indirect interpretation keys for coastal marine landscapes is extremely timely. This paper describes a remote sensing program based on recognition, identification (classification), and mapping of bottom natural complexes (BNC) in shallow parts of the Sea of Japan, extending for a distance of 60 km along the coast. Indirect interpretation keys were identified for BNC of the coastal zone of the sea, which include type of shoreline relief, shoreline configuration, and river runoff. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, seriya geograficheskaya, 1996, No. 5, pp. 135-140.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123608132","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":"SPACE-TIME FLUCTUATIONS IN SUSPENDED-MATTER CONTENT IN THE GULF OF FINLAND FROM REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY","authors":"L. Sukhacheva","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1997.10642053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1997.10642053","url":null,"abstract":"A multi-year series of remote sensing images of the Neva Inlet and the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland was analyzed to determine the spatial-temporal variability of the distribution of suspended matter at different scales. Synoptic, seasonal, and interannual variability in the distribution of suspended matter is analyzed, taking into consideration distinctive characteristics of the waters of the Neva Inlet reflecting the variability of sea level and seasonal stratification of water masses. The contributions to pollution of the Inlet by dredging of bottom sediments and construction of urban areas are investigated and the Inlet's present condition is compared to that prevailing during the 1980s.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131940232","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":"CARTOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF RESIDUAL QUANTITIES OF DDT IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF SAMARKAND OASIS, UZBEKISTAN","authors":"R. Galiulin, V. Bashkin, R. R. Galiulina","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1997.10642052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1997.10642052","url":null,"abstract":"Three Russian environmental scientists describe a program of monitoring and mapping of accumulations of the now-banned pesticide DDT in a major area of irrigation agriculture in the republic of Uzbekistan—the Samarkand Oasis. Measurements from soil, water, and river/lake/canal bottom sediment samples were taken within the zone of irrigated crop cultivation along the Zeravshan River. The final map product is intended not only as a graphic tool for depicting the spatial distribution of accumulated DDT residues and derivative metabolic compounds, but as an operational document supporting the implementation of measures to mitigate the environmental hazard they pose. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 1996, No. 4, pp. 51-54.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128044981","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":"SYNTHESIS OF IMAGING SPECTROMETER AND MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER DATA OF DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS","authors":"B. Zhukov, D. Oertel","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1997.10642051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1997.10642051","url":null,"abstract":"The results of modeling the procedure of synthesizing data from an imaging spectrometer (IS) and a multispectral scanner (MSS) with low and high spatial resolutions, respectively, are presented. The synthesis method makes it possible to develop a classification and determine the spatial distribution of the sensed features at the high spatial resolution of MSS imagery and to retrieve their spectra with the spectroradiometric detail of IS measurements. It is shown that with an IS signal-to-noise ratio of no less than 50, a geometric matching of IS and MSS data with an accuracy of no less than 0.1 of an IS pixel along both axes, and with allowance for the IS real point-spread function, the spectral nonuniformity of the classes and the errors in retrieving the spectra fall within the range of several percentage points, with a ratio of the IS and MSS spatial resolutions of 4-8 and ∼10% with a ratio of resolutions of 16-32.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131386663","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":"SOFTWARE AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL PROCESSING OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY IN GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH","authors":"A. Kitov","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1997.10642050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1997.10642050","url":null,"abstract":"The author provides an introduction to a number of basic geographic software packages and discuses their potential applicability in the Russian context, especially with respect to geographic information systems. Particular attention is devoted to problems of merging vector and raster data and the development, by the Siberian Section of the Russian Academy of Sciences, of videoimage identification software designed to expedite geographers' capabilities when working in digital image processing and GIS (VORS software). Use of the VORS software is illustrated via applications in image processing and mapping of areas impacted by oil and gas drilling, forested tracts in the Buryat Republic, and land use in a river basin. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 1996, No. 4, pp. 158-170.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123974917","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":"MODELING OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: CONTRIBUTION TO A NEW METHODOLOGICAL PARADIGM","authors":"V. N. Anderson","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1996.10642033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1996.10642033","url":null,"abstract":"The methodological problems encountered in geosystems modeling in an automated medium are discussed on the basis of general GIS applications in human geography. Geographic information modeling is examined as a new methodological paradigm, the basis for which is the symbiosis between a research geographer and a computer. Specific examples are used to demonstrate the potential for use of such modeling to solve basic and applied problems in social and economic geography. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, seriya geograficheskaya, 1996, No. 2, pp. 124-130.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132020638","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":"SMALL-SCALE GENERAL REFERENCE MAPS OF OBLAST-LEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL UNITS","authors":"D. Vishnevskiy, A. Kharchenko","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1996.10642038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1996.10642038","url":null,"abstract":"The authors outline their experience in the design and compilation of a new type of general reference economic map for oblast-level units of the Russian Federation. The maps are intended as advanced products (in terms of comprehensiveness, quality of generalization, and practical utility). More specifically, the program leading to the development of 1:500,000- to 1:1,250,000-scale maps of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Primorskiy and Khabarovsk krays of the Russian Far East is reviewed with an eye toward identification of organizational and methodological principles appropriate to mapping programs in administrative-territorial units elsewhere in the Russian Federation. A concluding section presents one variant of a legend that can be used for such maps. Translated by: Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Rossiyskogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, 1995, No. 4, pp. 11-16.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"5 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116369534","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":"MAPPING THE DYNAMICS OF DESERTIFICATION OF LANDS FROM REPEATED AERIAL AND SPACE IMAGES","authors":"B. Vinogradov, K. Kulik","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1996.10642035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1996.10642035","url":null,"abstract":"Experience in regional mapping of the long-term dynamics of desertification and degradation of lands in the Kalmyk Republic on the basis of aerial photographs and space imagery for 1954-1984 and 1954-1993 is reviewed. Using the index of change in the area of moving sands and deflation surfaces measured from the photographs and images, isarithms measuring the growth in their area (at an interval of 100 hectares/year/pixel) are plotted. The use of such dynamic isarithmic maps makes it possible to compute the areas of intense, strong, moderate, and weak desertification, as well as the absence of desertification within the limits of the region. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, seriya geograficheskaya, 1996, No. 2, pp. 131-140.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133548618","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}
Yu. N. Krasnoshchekov, Y. Cherednikova, G. Tsedendash
{"title":"MEDIUM-SCALE MAPPING OF THE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS OF MONGOLIA","authors":"Yu. N. Krasnoshchekov, Y. Cherednikova, G. Tsedendash","doi":"10.1080/07493878.1996.10642036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07493878.1996.10642036","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes the organization and preliminary results of a joint Mongolian-Russian program for mapping forest vegetation in an area of Mongolia adjacent to the Russian border. The project involved the compilation of a map of ecosystems, which provided a base for a subsequently prepared map of ecosystem disturbance by humans. The paper includes a discussion of procedures followed in compilation of the legends of the two maps, as well as a detailed analysis of the spatial patterns of human disturbance revealed by analysis of the second map. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 1996, No. 3, pp. 135-144.","PeriodicalId":175956,"journal":{"name":"Mapping Sciences & Remote Sensing","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132103814","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}