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Terrain Spectral Imagery from Space In Various Spectral Regions

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Manned Laboratories in Space

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The present review discusses the possibilities and results of interpretations of earth observations from satellites for use in geosciences and other investigations of natural resources.Different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum can give different and often complementary information about the atmosphere, the surface (land, vegetation, ocean, ice, hydrology) and subsurface.

We discuss:

  1. 1.

    Space photography, black-and-white, as well as multi-spectral, with application to terrestrial natural resource problems.

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    Infrared pictures of the earth in transparency windows and absorption bands, with possibilities of their meteorological interpretation.

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    Space spectrophotometry; the identification of the spectra of surface formations with the purpose of discerning the mineralogical composition of rocks and for geobotanical investigations.

  4. 4.

    ‘Radar pictures’of surface formations; their advantages and the possibilities of active and passive microwave sensing.

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    K. Ya Kondratyev, V. D. Stepanenko & B. V. Vinogradov

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Kondratyev, K.Y., Stepanenko, V.D., Vinogradov, B.V. (1969). Terrain Spectral Imagery from Space In Various Spectral Regions. In: Singer, S.F. (eds) Manned Laboratories in Space. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3420-3_4

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