PRINCIPLES AND METHODS FOR COMPILING ECOLOGICAL-ECONOMIC MAPS FROM SPACE IMAGERY

The authors examine the theoretical and methodological basis for the compilation, from space imagery, of complex maps depicting land use, settlement, and types of hazards posed to the environment by different economic activities. Map content and level of detail vary by scale, and the types of information conveyed at different scales (1:100,000; 1:500,000; and 1:1,000,000) are described on the basis of specific mapping projects in the Urals, Kola Peninsula, and Russian Far East. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 1997, No. 1, pp. 145-150.