USE OF SATELLITE DATA FOR PLANNING OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AND OTHER POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS OBJECTS
- Paper number
IAC-08.B1.5.7
- Author
Prof. Kirill A. Boyarchuk, Russia
- Coauthor
Dr. Lyudmila Miloserdova, Russian Oil & Gas University, Russia
- Year
2008
- Abstract
The problem of seismic – geological safety of large industrial objects is directly related to the tectonically instable areas of the Earth's crust, where the seismic events may occur. The specialized fracture maps have a regional character, so they cannot help to detect at the local level if a fault is ancient and inactive or "alive" and therefore dangerous. The opinion that platform territories are stable is out of date. It is determined to the present time that not only seismically hazardous mobile territories but also platforms are broken into blocks by a regular network of faults reversely shifting related each other with velocities reaching centimeters a year. Satellite imaging of high and medium resolution is a unique source of information for reliable detection of such fault-and block structure of a territory under study and for determination of rank relations between tectonic blocks. The existing experience of successful interpretation of medium resolution space images for geological prospecting may be also applied for revealing of tectonically instable structures, i.e. for detection of all "living" fractures of any mapping scale and in real time. For image interpretation, the authorial modification of the standard method is used; its peculiarity is simultaneous work at several scale levels. The image interpretation is carried out on the base of the latest achievements of remote sensing techniques and computing image processing. For record of the slow tectonic movements, so called creep, the "retrospective monitoring" is used, i.e. interpretation of space images obtained for the same territory during by-gone years. Use of "retrospective monitoring" enables to detect the degree of movement and, therefore, the degree of seismic-geological hazard for any faults as in areas where construction is planned as around existing objects.
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