| Abstract: | The paper outlines a strategy for environmental management based on the joint use of space imagery and existing thematic map sets in monitoring the state of the environment in areas known as territorial human-environment complexes, proposed as regional-level units of nature management. Space imagery is also instrumental in the identification of these complexes prior to the onset of monitoring, a subject which is addressed in some detail at the start of the paper. Most extensive coverage is devoted to the organization and operation of a centralized, interdisciplinary data bank of remote sensing imagery, from which scenes are processed and interpretation maps distributed according to the specific needs of user organizations. Translated from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 1986, No. 2, pp. 138-142. |
