STUDY OF THE METHOD FOR MONITORING THE CASPIAN SEA COASTLINE BASED ON THE DATA OF REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH

Abstract

As the matter of fact, the Caspian Sea is an inland water structure that has no physical connection with the World Ocean, and has a high sensitive level for changes in various aspects. The live activity and mineral resources near the Caspian Sea was organized on the basis of the economic views of the states located on its coast since ancient times. Two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered by water ecosystem, and more than half of humanity is concentrated in a strip 50 miles wide along the coast. We are intimately connected to vast areas of water, and the health and quality of life in our oceans has a direct impact on the health of our lives. Systematic monitoring of water bodies should be an organizational and technological scheme for regular and continuous observations, assessment and forecasting of the state of water resources under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors. The main purposes of monitoring are supplying water management and environmental complexities with reliable and latest updated information that allows scientists to assess the functional integrity of the state of ecosystems, and additionally, identify the causes of changes and evaluate their consequences of determination of corrective measures. Supportive information of that artificial reservoirs research should contain a large amount of various options and data on the physical-geographical and socio-economic features of the regions adjacent to the reservoir. This paper describes a state of knowledge of the dynamic evaluation of the coastline of the Caspian Sea region today, as well as the consequences may affect to the future economical situation of that area. Analysis of this research is devoted to the study of the practical application of photogrammetric methods and coastline monitoring technologies, using system of satellite images with high spatial resolution. The results of that observation reveal the high technological efficiency and comparison of the proposed methods with indication of updated techniques productivity.