ARAL SEA GEOINFORMATION SYSTEM presentation program 1996

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ARAL SEA GEOINFORMATION SYSTEMpresentation
program1996

• Includes chosen topics from GIS
• Compiled by Andrei Ptichnikov, Institute of
  Geography RAS and Sveta Kniazeva, All-Russian
  Forest Monitoring Center.

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Aral sea GIS features

• 3 main themes, including
• - Physical geography and topography
• - Socio-economic development and resources use
• - Environmental problems and ways of their
  solution.
• 49 thematic layers in English and Russian
• Republican, regional and local levels of
  presentation
• Detailed studies of AmuDarya and SyrDarya deltas
• Remote Sensing layers from Landsat TM and MSS,
  Resource MSU-SK, MSU-E satellite platforms for
  1973-1996
• Compatibility with GRID/GEMS specifications
• Compiled using PC ARC-INFO and IDRISI software in
  UTM projection
• Scales from 14 000 000 to 125 000.
• Visualization of maps - using ArcView 2 software

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Physical geography and topography
Isobates (m)

• Batimetry

• Fall of the Aral Sea level since 1960 to 2000 yy

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1975
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1960
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2000
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35
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45
1990
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55
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65
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ECOLOGICAL ISSUES

• Environment pollution

Amount of salt-dust deposits from dry bottom of
the Aral sea
Fall of salt and dust gt 20 tons/sq.km
Fall of salt and dust gt 80 tons/sq.km
Fall of salt and dust gt 200 tons/sq.km
Fall of salt and dust gt 600 tons/sq.km
Center of salt and dust transfer
Aral sea
Administrative boundaries
Rivers
Lakes
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• Rehabilitation measures

ECOLOGICAL ISSUES
Forecasted ecosystems in the AmuDarya delta in
2000 - 2005 years
Halophyte shrubs and reeds
Desertic hemihalophyte
No data
Takyr without vegetation
Desertified halophyte shrubs
Desiccated tugay complexes
Xerohalophyte shrubs
Salinized tugay shrub complexes
Desiccating and salinizing tugay complex
Semidesertic hemihalophyte
Halophyte shrubs
Landriv
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Socio-Economic development

• Public health

Aral sea
Medical anomalies, cases per 10000
Muinak
Kungrad
Tachtakupyr
Bozatau
Kanlikuly
Chimbay
Chumanay
Kegeily
Berouny
Nukus
Karauziak
Ellikala
Turtkul
Irgizsky
Chelkarsky
Bayganinsky
Aralsky
Suzaksky
Aral sea
Kazalinsky
Kungradsky
Kzylkumsky
Tamdynsky
Peshkunsky
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Socio-economic development

• Water management and irrigation Irrigation and
  drainage channel network

• Data by Rainer Ressl, Germany

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• Zones of ecological disaster

ECOLOGICAL ISSUES
Zones with different criticalitiy of ecological
situation
In AmuDarya delta
Aral Sea
Muinak

• Type of cituation
• Catastrophic
• Disaster
• Critical
• Strained
• Lakes
• Irrigated fields

Usturt plateau
Nukus