Author(s): P. I. Buharicin.; E. Kh. Ayazbayev
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Abstract: The rapid development of space technology in the 1970s in Russia resulted in fundamentally new and promising methods for the study of the hydrological regime of seas and oceans, including the assessment of sea ice status and dynamics. Launching specialized artificial satellites (AS) and creating the network of autonomous satellite information receiver stations (ASIRS) contributed to this. In 1975, such a receiver station was created on the basis of Astrakhan Zonal Hydrometeorological Observatory (AZHO). The first TV images of the Caspian Sea ice cover were received from NOAA satellite in winter 1976. They were used to verify the position of ice boundaries and edges acquired by visual aerial ice reconnaissance. A simple and rapid method was proposed for making ice maps based on ASIRS data, and that gave a start to the regular study of the Caspian ice using satellite information.
Year: 2014