E-raamat: Earth's Nature from Space - A study of the natural resources of the earth using satellite data: Russian Translations Series 89

PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER
1. PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES OF REMOTE SENSING OF
THE ENVIRONMENT 1.1. Spectral Characteristics of Natural Objects in the
Optical Range 1.2. Atmospheric Distortion CHAPTER
2. ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES OF
THE EARTH, METEOR AND METEOR-PRIRODA 2.1. Requirements of Spacecraft Designed
to Study the Natural Resources of the Earth 2.2. Design of Spacecraft 2.3.
Stages of Development of the Meteor Priroda Program CHAPTER
3.
RADIO-TELEVISION COMPLEXES OF METEOR-PRIRODA SATELLITES 3.1. Operational
Radio-Television Complex of Priroda 3.2. Experimental Spaceborne Information
Complex (BIK-E) 3.3. Experimental Information and Measuring Complex
Multispectral Scanner System Fragment CHAPTER
4. COLLECTION OF SUBSATELLITE
INFORMATION 4.1. Additional Data Bank 4.2. Technical Methods for Information
Collection 4.3. Complex Subsatellite Experiments CHAPTER
5. DIGITAL
PROCESSING OF SPATIAL MULTISPECTRAL VIDEO INFORMATION 5.1. Procedures to
Improve the Quality of Multispectral Information 5.2. Procedures of
Compression and Coding 5.3. Procedures of Geometric Transformations 5.4.
Procedures for Radiation Correction 5.5. Procedures of Thematically-oriented
Transformations 5.6. Procedures of Optimal Representation 5.7. The Procedure
for Selecting Space Criteria 5.8. The Procedure of Textural Analysis 5.9. The
Procedure of Recognition 5.10. Peculiarities of the Interactive Regime of the
Processing of Images CHAPTER
6. STUDY OF NATURAL TERRITORIAL COMPLEXES 6.1.
Natural Territorial Complexes of the Nonchernozem Belt 6.2. The Zones of
Development of the Baikal[ 1]Amur Highway 6.3. The Putoran Plateau 6.4.
Natural Territorial Complexes of Altai Krai CHAPTER
7. STUDY OF THE STATE OF
SOIL AND PLANT COVER 7.1. Study of Soil Cover 7.2. Study of the State of
Forest Vegetation 7.3. Use of Satellite Information to Evaluate the State of
Desert and Pasture Vegetation 7.4. Assessment of the State of Agricultural
Holdings and the Course of Agricultural Operations CHAPTER
8. SATELLITE
INFORMATION FOR HYDROLOGIC PURPOSES 8.1. Snow Cover on Drainage Basins 8.2.
Ice Conditions in Reservoirs 8.3. Estimation of Overflows and Inundation of
Flood-plains 8.4. Automated Processing of Satellite Data for Hydrologic
Purposes CHAPTER
9. USE OF SATELLITE INFORMATION IN THE VISIBLE AND INFRARED
RANGES IN OCEANOGRAPHY 9.1. The Present Status of Space Oceanography 9.2.
Observations of Ice Conditions on Seas and Oceans, Investigations of the
Distribution and Dynamics of Sea Ice 9.3. Investigation of Eddy Formations,
Local Fronts and Internal Waves 9.4. Investigation of Water Masses with
Different Optical Characteristics. Determination of Plankton and Suspension
Fields 9.5. Use of Satellite Digital Maps of Water Surface Temperature in
Regional Oceanographic Investigations CHAPTER
10. MONITORING ANTHROPOGENIC
EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER
11. USE OF SPACEBORNE MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER
PHOTOGRAPHS IN GEOLOGY 11.1. Geological Information Content of Space[ 1]borne
Multispectral Scanner Photographs 11.2. Stages and Sequence of Geological
Interpretation of Spaceborne Scanner Photographs 11.3. Use of Spaceborne
Scanner Photographs in Geology CONCLUSION.

N.P. Kozlov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Vice-chairman of the State Committee of the USSR for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Protection.