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Role of GIS in Lifting the Cloud Off Chernobyl

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Jaromír Kolejka

    1. Faculty of Education, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series: IV: (NAIV, volume 10)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Situation Assessment for Mitigation Activities: Tools for Building Geographic Knowledge

    • C. Siegel, S. Palko
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Dnieper River Basin Challenge: Local and International Response to an Environmental and Human Health Crisis

    • D. Poletto, K. Babcock
    Pages 13-23

  4. Providing Information in Relation to Chernobyl and the Role of GIS

    • P. G. de Nooijer, V. Chabanyuk
    Pages 25-48

  5. The Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident: First Results in the Radioecology Project of the French-German Initiative

    • G. Deville-Cavelin, H. Biesold, C. Brun-Yaba, V. Chabanyuk
    Pages 49-65

  6. Development of the Data Base: Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste, Environmental Impact, and Radiological Situation in Chernobyl NPP 4th Block “Shelter”

    • A. Borovoi, S. Gavrilov, G. Pretzsch
    Pages 67-76

  7. From Image Maps to Decision Making

    • S. Palko, C. Siegel
    Pages 77-84

  8. The Chernobyl Sarcophagus Project of the German-French Initiative

    • G. Pretzsch, V. L’Homme, A. N. Seleznev, E. S. Seredynin
    Pages 85-95

  9. Radon Risk Assessment in GIS

    • V. Vozenílek
    Pages 97-107

  10. The Run-off in Natural and Agricultural Environments

    • V. Popov
    Pages 109-119

  11. Waste Dumps around Chornobyl Power Plant: Actual State and Future

    • E. Sobotovich, V. Skvortsov, C. Brun-Yaba
    Pages 121-129

  12. The Problem of Waste

    • J. Kolejka, J. Pokorný, O. Skrott
    Pages 131-146

  13. Countermeasures on Natural and Agricultural Areas after Chernobyl Accident

    • I. Bogdevitch, N. Sanzharova, B. Prister, S. Tarasiuk
    Pages 147-158

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 159-160
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jaromír Kolejka

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