Archeologic Site Mapping and the Image Processing in the Semi-arid Mongolian Grassland
Isao Akojima · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 1997
[ABSTRACT] One of the interesting problems for the conservation of Mongolian steppe land is the survey of the recent and the ancient cultivated field. The traditional food production in the Mongolian grass land has been the nomad of sheep that is a tender and sustainable way for grass land. But in the last several decades the large scale cultivation has been done by machine under the Russian support. The stripes of wheat field is being used alternately every other year. Some fields are not used now. It is one of the serious problems whether the large scale cultivation by machine is sustainable or not. The image from the satellite may be useful for detecting the change of large scale cultivation which was begun in the 1960's. We are now starting to survey on the ground and on the satellite image. And we are feeling the necessity of the help of middle scale air photo. And the another subject is the recent findings of some evidences of the ancient cities and the cultivated field. That needs the more large scale air-photo and the near-ground sensing technology.