REVIEW OF AEROGEO-SURVEYING BY V. P. MIROSHNICHENKO

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• Publication Date: May 23, 1950
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CENTRAL WTE.LLUGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Scientific - Aerial surveying
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PUBLISHED Book
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PUBLISHED Moscow/Leningrad
DATE
PUBLISHED 3.946
LANGUAGE Russian
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INFORMATION 1946
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
Ae:ogeosTyemka, Ministry of Geology USSR; (ID 416629).
REVIEW OF AEROGEO-SURVEYING BY V. P. MIROSHNICHENKO
The Application of Aerial Surveying to
Geological Investigations
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The year 1925 marked the beginning of the use of aerial surveying for
civilian purposes. At that time, special experimental projects were estab-
lished for an area of 400 hectares in Mozhaysk for surveying at scales of
from 1:2,000 to 1:17,000,. The success of these projects determined the future
development of aerial surveying in the USSR. Later, aerial-surveying was
widely used in the central part of the RSFSR, the Ukraine, Central Asia; the
Urals, Kuznetsk Basin, Azerbaydzhan, and on the Volga and Angara rivers. The
rapid tempo'of development of aerial surveying is indicated by the fact that
of the half-million square kilometers covered by aerial surveying by 1933,
more than half of this area had been surveyed during.1932,and 1933?
In 1931, a.special division was establish3d in. the Central Scientific-
Research Institute of Aerial Surveying Geodesy and Cartography (TsNIFAGiK)
to study methods of using aerial surveying data for various economic pur-
poses. A number of special experimental studies were made, with particular
regard to the use of aerial photographs for geological and geomorphological
study of the country. The first of these studies were conducted'in Central
Asia, i.e., in the Fergana valley, Turkmenia, and the Kara-Tau mountains.
These 'studies resulted in a great collection of factual material, upon which
this book was based'.
The.geological surveys which followed fully confirmed the high value of
the results obtained. In particular, interesting new data was obtained on
Turkmenia in geological mapping from aerial photographs. This data consider-
ably changed previously existing ideas on its geological structure. The
studies, however, wore not completed by the TsNIIAGfK because of its transfer
to Moscow. The geological part of the work was transferred to the All-Union
Geological Institute. and the Leningrad Mining Institute, iii which processing
o the geological data of the Central Asia expeditions was finished under the
direction of the author. In addition, the application of aerial photographs
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for geological mapping of the taiga and wooded regions of the USSR was
studied in the Northern Urals in cooperation with the Leningrad Bureau
of the Solikamsk hydro unit. A special course in the application of aerial
surveying data for mining, geology, and geography students has been taught
since 1938 at the Leningrad Mining Institute and at Leningrad University.
Preface
5
Par+ 1. Aerial Surveying, Its Principles, Techniques
and Products
I. History of the Problem
9
II. General Principles of Aerial Surveying
21
III. Techniques of Aerial Surveying and Its
Products
39
IV. Properties of Aerial Photographs as
Applied to Geology
53
V. Instruments for Field and Office Work
79
Part 2.
The Aerial Photograph as a New Surveying
Principle
I. Mapping of Geologically Denuded Regions
99
II. Mapping of Wooded Regions
182
Part 3.
Methodology of Aerial Photograph Application
and Organization of Work
I. Plan of Geological Aerial Photograph
Interpretation
247
II. The Process of Geological Studies
263
III. Special Demands on Aerial Surveying
275
IV. Visual Observations from an Airplane
284
V. Changes in Norms and the Economics of
Geological Studies
294
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