USE OF SPACE IMAGERY IN COMPILING ENVIRONMENTAL-PROTECTION MAPS (with reference to the Soligorsk potash-mining district)

The authors apply remote sensing data to the mapping of natural envionment with a focus on environmental protection. The technique is illustrated with particular reference to a largely swampy potash-mining deposit in Belorussia which is the largest potash producer of the USSR, accounting for 54% of its total output in 1983. Translated from: Kartografirovaniye po kosmicheskim snimkam i okhrana okruzhayushchey sredy (Mapping from Space Imagery and Protection of the Environment), edited by Ye. A. Vostokova et al., Moscow: Nedra, 1983, pp. 177-195.