Remote sensing the radionuclide contaminated Belarusian landscape: a potential for imaging spectrometry?
Title: Remote sensing the radionuclide contaminated Belarusian landscape: a potential for imaging spectrometry?
Author: Boyd, D. S.; Entwistle, J. A.; Flowers, A. G.; Armitage, R. P.; Goldsmith, P. C.
Reference: International Journal of Remote Sensing. 5/20/2006, Vol. 27 Issue 10, p1865-1874. 10p. 2
doi: 10.1080/01431160500328355.
Keywords: REMOTE sensing; RADIOISOTOPES; LANDSCAPES; SPECTROMETRY; CHERNOBYL Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986; BELARUS
Abstract: The 1986 Chernobyl accident resulted in radionuclide contamination (dominated by 137 Cs) across large areas of Belarus. Consequences of this accident continue to affect Belarus long after initial contamination, which in turn has placed strain upon social, economic and political infrastructures. One method to reduce this strain and remediate contamination is to return areas of land no longer posing a risk, back to an appropriate use. As a method of remediation, this requires regular and accurate monitoring of the landscape at which existing ground based techniques have not been entirely well‐suited. Remote sensing, specifically the use of imaging spectrometry offers the potential to monitor the Belarusian landscape at opportune spatial and temporal resolutions. Vegetation has been shown to be an important agent in the cycling of radioactive isotopes in the environment and therefore a useful indicator of radionuclide contamination.
URL:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tres/2006/00000027/00000010/art00001
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