| Abstract: | The author, a remote sensing specialist in Leningrad University's Department of Atmospheric Physics, describes the use of space imagery in a program for monitoring the city's impacts on the surrounding environment. The paper examines applications of LANDSAT and “Meteor” satellite imagery and “Soyuz-22” space photography in the study of industrial smoke plumes, jet contrails, atmospheric haze, albedo, the urban heat island, urban sprawl (including nighttime imagery), fallout of suspended particulates, and wastewater discharges into the Gulf of Finland. Translated from: Grigor'yev, A. A. Antropogennyye vozdeystviya na prirodnuyu sredy po nablyudeniyam iz kosmosa Human Impacts on the Environment From Observations From Space]. Leningrad: Nauka, 1985, pp. 129-141 Chapter 7]. |
