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MONITORING HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE KARA-BOGAZ-GOL

1987; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 24; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/07493878.1987.10641663

2331-1762

Yu. V. Novikov,

Marine and environmental studies

A second paper on the use of remote sensing in water resource monitoring focuses on efforts to assess and predict changes in the water level of the Kara-Bogaz-Gol, a brackish gulf of the eastern portion of the Caspian Sea, and to evaluate the significance of these changes for biotic and mineral resources. Near infrared “Meteor” satellite imagery, supplemented by quasi-synchronous aerial overflights and ground observations during the period 1980-1982, indicated that the surface area of the gulf had decreased by a factor of five since completion of a dam separating it from the Caspian, and permitted the mapping of four zones of salinization (differential potential for use in local commercial brine processing operations) for areas of former lake bed exposed at the surface through evaporation. Translated from: Priroda Zemli iz kosmosa, A. P. Tishchenko and S. V. Viktorov, eds. Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1984, pp. 129-130.