TY - BOOK ID - 2870880 TI - Role of GIS in lifting the cloud off Chernobyl : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on ..., Yalta, Ukraine, 17-21 September 2001 AU - Kolejka, Jaromir AU - NATO Advanced Study Institutes AU - Kluwer Academic Publishers AU - NATO PY - 2002 VL - v. 10. SN - 140200768X 1402007698 9401005184 PB - Dordrecht ; Boston ; London Brussels Kluwer Academic Publishers NATO Scientific Affairs Division DB - UniCat KW - Radioactive pollution KW - Radioactive waste sites KW - Geographic information systems KW - Remote sensing KW - Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986 KW - Dépôts de déchets radioactifs KW - Cleanup KW - Environmental aspects KW - Nettoyage KW - Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 KW - Dépôts de déchets radioactifs KW - Monograph KW - Geographical information systems. KW - Radiation protection. KW - Radiation—Safety measures. KW - Remote sensing. KW - Data structures (Computer science). KW - Waste management. KW - Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. KW - Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection. KW - Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. KW - Data Structures and Information Theory. KW - Waste Management/Waste Technology. KW - Information structures (Computer science) KW - Structures, Data (Computer science) KW - Structures, Information (Computer science) KW - Electronic data processing KW - File organization (Computer science) KW - Abstract data types (Computer science) KW - Remote-sensing imagery KW - Remote sensing systems KW - Remote terrain sensing KW - Sensing, Remote KW - Terrain sensing, Remote KW - Aerial photogrammetry KW - Aerospace telemetry KW - Detectors KW - Space optics KW - Radiation monitoring KW - Radiation protection KW - Geographical information systems KW - GIS (Information systems) KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Geography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2870880 AB - The 15th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster offered a timely opportunity for an expert assessment of the current situation and suggestions for approaches to managing the information associated with the site and surrounding contaminated territories. The great quantity of data coming from the contaminated region was and is very difficult to use without he aid of modern information technologies, especially Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). Application of these technologies, and related expertise, became crucial to the region's economic recovery and sustainability planning. Given the real possibility of a similar accident at nuclear facilities elsewhere around the world, the development of recovery strategies based on experience gained at Chernobyl, using modern scientific methods and technologies, will be invaluable in the future. The presentations and discussion reported in the book have led to some key conclusions. Image maps derived from satellite imagery are the most economical, up to date and readily available basis for Chernobyl-related applications, as well as for other future applications. The study of soil-plant transfer of radionuclides afforded comparatively much more reliable data. GIS in association with adequate knowledge is a valuable tool in decision making and modelling of contaminated areas and objects. ER -