MONITORING OF NATURAL COMPLEXES AND TERRAIN DEVELOPMENT ON THE DRY FLOOR OF THE ARAL SEA

Abstract

The principal objectives and methods of a Kazakh government program using remote sensing imagery to study processes of terrain development on the dried floor of the Aral Sea are described. A sketch map of relief-forming processes, compiled from the interpretation of false-color space photographs of the exposed sea floor, as well as multitemporal images obtained over a long period of time, will make it possible to compile cartographic models of terrain development and to forecast the evolution of natural complexes of the desiccated Aral Sea floor.