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- Methodological Basis for Small-Scale Forest Mapping in the Atlas of Asian
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Abstract: Abstract The purpose of the study is to analyze and evaluate the methodological foundations for creating forest maps and their systematization in the framework of small-scale mapping for the atlas of Asian Russia. The basis for achieving the goal is the rich theoretical, methodological, and practical experience in creating forest maps for the territory of Russia and its individual entities, as well as macroregions, for example, Baikal (Irkutsk oblast, the Republic of Buryatia, and Zabaykalsky krai) and the Lake Baikal basin. The study is based on the methods of comparative geographical and system analysis, cartographic, expert, and geoinformation mapping using technologies for processing information and creating maps as spatiotemporal, figurative, and symbolic models that best reflect the multifaceted nature of forests and their importance in the development and interaction of nature and society. The study has resulted in the analysis, assessment, and thematic systematization of small-scale forest maps. It is determined that they are part of several main groups: maps of forests and territorial and economic organization of forests, and forest industry, forest resources and their functions, forest protection, and forest–ecological situations. A number of maps, their contents, and approaches to their development are considered using the example of the author’s cartographic works. Their thematic content reflects forest disturbance caused by the impact of fires, logging, and other unfavorable factors; the forest resource potential of territories; types of forest use and types of prospective forest management; the location of the main branches of the forest industry complex; natural fire hazard of forests; etc.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Complex Atlases of the Feoria Publishing House
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Abstract: Abstract This article is devoted to the peculiarities of the methodology of content development, design, expressive means of complex atlases published by the Feoria Publishing House. The developers of the atlases initially focused on the need, on the one hand, to rely on classical cartography as a fundamental tradition and, on the other hand, to create projects in a new way expressing the features, meanings, images, and symbols of the space of northern Eurasia (NE). For this purpose, a methodology has been developed for the selection, construction, and presentation of material, the principles of which are described in the article. The atlases are primarily focused on the expression of historical and cultural heritage, the culture of ethnic groups, and forms of interaction with nature among themselves. Given the completeness of spatial information and representations of the essential qualities of regions, atlases became a kind of geo interfaces to the world of knowledge about them and the continent as a whole.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Mapping of Soils and Lands to Assess Their Condition
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Abstract: Abstract This article provides a brief overview of the soil mapping work carried out in the Baikal region. In a significant area of the studied territory, the structure of the soil cover is subject to the laws of mountain zonality. The height above sea level of the earth’s surface within, for example, Irkutsk oblast ranges from 300 to 2875 m; the climatic conditions of soil formation are contrasting, from wet and cold to very dry and warm. This paper presents one of the maps of agroecological zoning of soils of Irkutsk oblast compiled by the authors. Soil–agroecological zoning of a territory is a way of analyzing and displaying soil cover, taking into account the regional features of their development in various natural and climatic conditions due to a sufficiently large area of territory (elements of latitudinal zonality are observed on a leveled surface) and a wide variety of landforms. The legend of the map of agroecological zoning of soils contains names of soils in accordance with the new classification, soil-forming rocks, vegetation and their productivity, altitude above sea level, dryness index, the number of “active” temperatures, the period with negative soil temperature, the duration of the warm period, the spread of permafrost rocks, and suitability for agricultural use. Suitable and unsuitable districts have been identified for use in agriculture. Various types of economic activities are recommended. Maps of land use in 1980, 2013, and 2023 are also provided (using the example of the most developed part of the Cis-Baikal lands). Most of the region’s land (more than 70%) is under forest vegetation. The area of agricultural land is about 4% in the region and 20% in the Irkutsk-Cheremkhovskaya plain. The Irkutsk-Cheremkhovskaya plain with neighboring settled areas (which occupies 11% of the territory of the region, where the main part of the farmland is located) has relatively good natural and climatic conditions. With the collapse of collective farms and state farms since the 1990s, more than 50% of former agricultural land has been abandoned. A positive aspect of the “restructuring” of the state system is the emergence of a reserve of agricultural land for use in the form of abandoned land.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Atlas Mapping of the Macroregion: Semiotics of Environmental Management
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Abstract: Abstract The results of research into the semiotic information and modular structure of atlases created on the territory of the transborder Baikal macroregion are presented. Using the example of atlas semiotic mapping of spatial structures of environmental management, it is shown that effective modeling techniques and balanced application of atlas semiotic structures and syntactic constructions of map signs are used. It is noted that the accumulated experience of the structural and semiotic organization of atlas cartographic works of the transborder Baikal region may have methodological and practical significance in creating a new atlas of Asian Russia.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Features of the Nival–Glacial Geosystem Mapping of Asian Russia
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Abstract: Abstract The main stages of development of some nival–glacial geosystems of Asian Russia have been studied and modeled by the geoinformation modeling tools. The state of glaciation for different time periods are considered. A geoinformation analysis of data of different temporal states show the development of glacial geosystems of the region with a general decrease in area. Geographical references of altitudinal and geometric parameters and the level of degradation of glacial landscapes are specified. The results of such modeling can be used for global models and databases characterizing glacial phenomena at different levels.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- On Differences in the Results of Judgement-Based, Cluster, and Regression
Analysis in Fauna Assemblage Mapping Using the Example of Mouselike
Rodents of the Altai Mountains-
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Abstract: Abstract This article compares assemblage maps of mouselike rodents in the Altai Mountain region, created according to the results of mousetrap capture data based on the judgement-based speculative method and using cluster and regression analysis. The map legends are shown to have significant differences, and the approximation of community similarity is clearly overall unsatisfactory. The lists of identified structure-forming factors are similar in both cases, but their combinations (natural-anthropogenic regimes) that explain the heterogeneity of the communities are significantly different. The judgement-based explanation relies only on data on the heterogeneity of vegetation and relief. Formalized analysis establishes an additional correlation with provinciality and the composition of forest-forming species. The information value of the classification is almost the same for both judgement-based and formalized analysis (7.51 and 8.16%) when performed on source data; when averaged by sections of the geobotanical map (for a rank larger than habitats), it increases 1.6-fold for judgement-based analysis and 2.6-fold for formalized analysis; i.e., in this case, formalized analysis is 1.6 times more effective.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Experience of Permafrost Mapping in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
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Abstract: Abstract Due to their fundamental scientific content and functional capabilities, modern thematic maps, map series, and atlases for large regions, both digital and paper, can be used as a system for obtaining fundamental knowledge, as well as a support for decision making and regional development scenarios. The basic principle of permafrost mapping is to depict separately the main permafrost characteristics and environmental controls. Theoretical foundations for geocryological mapping have been developed under the guidance of V.A. Kudryavtsev as unified principles for classifying the geocryological conditions. The mapping approach commonly used for permafrost studies is that of the landscape system. The Melnikov Permafrost Institute has had much experience in constructing geocryological maps, which are classified as thematic maps in regards to content. Commencing from the Schematic Geocryological Map of the Yakutian ASSR, 1 : 5 000 000 scale [1], a range of thematic maps were compiled by I.A. Nekrasov, P.A. Solovyov, V.M. Piguzova, I.S. Vasiliev, A.N. Fedorov, V.B. Spektor, and others. Original methods for depicting various elements of permafrost were developed, which are reflected in the publications of numerous institutes. Currently, cartographic research is in its most active stage of development.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Role of Thematic Maps of New Development Areas in the Atlas of Asian
Russia (Using the Example of Irkutsk Oblast)-
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Abstract: Abstract The current problem of the management of new development areas in modern conditions of geopolitical and economic instability is considered. The need to focus on the economic growth and the use of resources in Asian Russia is emphasized. The main thesis is that the new development areas in Russia can become economic growth engines upon the implementation of large resource-based and transport projects. However, difficulties arise due to the dominance of raw materials specialization and insufficient diversity of industry, which can cancel out the results of the development of natural resources. A cartographic approach is proposed to solve the problems of the development of these territories. The study is based on a cartographic technique that includes the analysis of data on natural resources, socioeconomic development, and other factors. It is concluded that there is a need for a more detailed study and mapping of the new development areas to assess their potential and to work out development strategies, especially under conditions of instability and changes in the modern world.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Estimated and Predictive Mapping of the Geographical Environment of the
Mongolian–Siberian Region Based on Ideas about the Organization of
Geosystems-
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Abstract: Abstract A methodology has been developed for the scientific preparation of cartographic information about a natural geographical object to assess the environmental risks of environmental management in the regions. The study was performed on a scale of 1 : 8 000 000 for the territory located in the sector of the catchment area of the Arctic Ocean, extending from the world watershed located in the center of Mongolia to the oceanic subarctic of the Russian Federation. Using geoinformation methods, a basic map has been developed from multiscale maps of geosystems previously created for individual sections of the studied region as a single methodological and information basis for assessing the state of geosystems and predicting its possible anthropogenic change. Using the principles of classification and methods of integration mapping of geosystems proposed by academician V.B. Sochava, a special classification of geosystems adapted to a new scale has been created, reflecting their organization, mechanisms of functioning, and transformation. Based on the results of landscape–ecological and anthropoecological interpretation of geosystem information, indicator signs and criteria for assessing natural environmental risk were developed, which were used as an information basis for cartographic multifunctional zoning of the territory. The “Geosystems of the Mongolian–Siberian Region” and “Geoecozones of the Mongolian–Siberian Region” maps will have theoretical and practical significance for solving complex problems of environmentally oriented nature management and planning and forecasting the development of a vast territory of extratropical Asia.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Using Geoinformation Services to Make Operational Decisions to Minimize
Health Risks to Populations in Areas of Wildfires-
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Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this study is to develop and test geoinformation services for making operational decisions aimed at reducing the health risk to the population when smoke from wildfires is exposed near populated areas and at a considerable distance. Processing services implement spatial analysis methods. The computational models are implemented on the JupyterHub interactive computing platform provided by the infrastructure. That technology was tested on the example of areas the Baikal region in the Republic of Buryatia during periods of significant smoke contamination of the territory associated with local mass fires and remote at 1000–2500 km. The assessment modeling results are presented in the form of thematic interactive maps that change depending on the filtering of results by various criteria, graphs, and tables. A digital environment has been developed that allows one to quickly upload primary data, present it in various schemes, carry out calculations, and obtain information about harmful substances in the air. The calculation methodology is presented as a set of services and Jupyter documents. Visualization of the results of assessing the potential and realized risk in the form of multilayer maps makes it possible to quickly identify the areas of greatest danger. In the Baikal region, the probability of respiratory symptoms associated with air pollution was CO 27.4% and total matter particles 6.7% of the number of exposed.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Atlas of Asian Russia: Scope, Conception, Structure, and Stages
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Abstract: Abstract Russia is faced with the tasks of apperceiving the historical, modern, and predicted role of the country’s eastern regions in the new geopolitical and economic environment. The production of a new atlas of Asian Russia by using newly developed and created spatial databases, as well as previously issued maps and atlases based on the system approach to creating cartographic models at different scale levels, can be an important tool for solving these tasks. The new atlas will make it possible to make an inventory and perform a visualization and a scientific analysis of the geopolitical, historical–geographical, resource–economic, sociodemographic, and ecological situation in the largest macroregion of Russia. New types and themes of the maps will be proposed for the first time and will make it possible to determine the transition models of different territories in Siberia and the Far East to sustainable balanced development. The atlas will help in a scientific understanding of the processes in nature and society; contribute to the development of naturelike technologies and human–machine systems for environmental and ecosystem management; and display the regional uniqueness of the ethical aspects of technological development—the main changes and transformations of social, political, and economic relations. The atlas will consist of two volumes: (1) the archaeology, history, and natural and cultural heritage of Asian Russia and (2) the nature, economy, population, and environmental situation of Asian Russia. The volumes will be accompanied by texts, plots, and photos. The atlas is planned to have an electronic version in 2024–2026 and will be issued in print in 2027–2028. Institutes of the Siberian and Far East Branches of the Russian Academy of Sciences, higher educational institutions of Siberia and the Far East, and the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University will be involved in preparing the atlas. The principal coordinator of the project is the Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, which has extensive experience in the production of atlases.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Tourism in the New Reality: Development Guidelines
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Abstract: Abstract The current situation with global and domestic tourism markets is summarized, reflecting the changes associated with the postpandemic impact and geopolitical environment. The recognition of the ongoing crisis as an opportunity for reflection and the necessary revision of strategies for developing the leisure industry in the context of increasing its sustainability is considered. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current major trends affecting the development of the tourism sector and identify the benchmarks in the formation of its prospects. The research methodology provides a systematic approach to consider tourism an integral system, including numerous factors that have direct and indirect impacts on it. The research is based on the analysis of expert estimates of the formation of the tourism market under the influence of external factors in 2020‒2023. In Russia, most attention is focused on the development of domestic tourism within the framework of the national Tourism and Hospitality Industry project. As part of it, state support for the industry is carried out, resulting in steady growth in the segment of domestic tourism. Meanwhile, there are concerns that it is not an easy task to continue this trend, and its solution should be based on an analysis of the features of the established global trends, the optimal use of tourism support from the authorities, and the adjustment of regional strategies. In the context of the global trends affecting the development of tourism, we outline the main trends in the Russian leisure market, directions in the correlation between supply and demand, and the requirements for the product based on an analysis of the lessons presented by the current situation. One feature of getting out of the current crisis is the high competition between the subjects of the Russian Federation for the consumer. The role of the Far Eastern Federal District as a strategic tourist macro-territory with the active application of preferential regimes is revealed. Real examples of the region’s aspirations to expand activities in the tourism sector are shown. It is noted that the Far Eastern territories are actively positioning their tourism potential, realizing the role of the industry development in Russia’s “turn to the East” (more closely interacting with Asia–Pacific countries).
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Risks of Downstream Flooding of the Irkutsk Hydropower Plant in Regulating
the Lake Baikal Level-
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Abstract: Abstract This paper presents findings on modeling the flood zone boundaries and assessing the resultant damage in the downstream of the Irkutsk Hydropower Plant (IHPP) due to high water flows through it which are possible in high-water years when the Lake Baikal level goes beyond the established range. A description of the relief model and the data sources used are provided. The hydraulic model of steady flow of the Angara River, which is developed in the form of automatic generation of a large number of cross sections by calculating their characteristics, is presented. Currently, downstream flooding is observed when flow rate of IHPP is 2800 m3/s, while the bulk of possible flooding occurs in the city of Irkutsk. The results were verified using actual satellite image data. The paper presents the estimates of flooded areas and objects (buildings and structures) susceptible to flooding at various flow rates of the IHPP. Based on the estimates for the areas of the objects and the length of utility lines, which fall into the flood zones when the flow of IHPP ranges from 2800 to 6000 m3/s, socioeconomic damage and losses for the downstream pool as a whole were determined. The results showed an increase in the damage starting with a flow rate of IHPP of 4000 m3/s and its much higher increase with a flow rate of 4500 m3/s. The estimates for the damage due to elevated flow rates of IHPP are compared with the estimates of damage in the upstream pool, which can occur when the level of Lake Baikal rises under similar water conditions. The critical level for the upstream pool is 457.20 m (according to the Pacific Elevation System). The critical flow rate for the downstream pool is 4000–4500 m3/s. These levels and flow rates are within the range of comparable damage in the upstream and downstream pools and have a probability of about 2%.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Atlas Information Systems: Design, Creation, and Use
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Abstract: Abstract This article reviews the concept of atlas information systems (AISs) and their characteristics, principles of creation, history of development, and development experience. The common features and differences of AISs with traditional paper atlas cartography, as well as automated cartographic systems (ACSs) and geographic information systems (GISs), are presented. The advantages of multimedia atlas information systems (MAISs) for displaying and evaluating the studied objects are emphasized. It is noted that atlas information systems as a whole are designed to solve the problems of integrating and creating cartographic and multimedia data on research objects from various sources; creating various thematic data blocks; informing about problems in various fields of research; creating manuals for students, researchers, local historians, and tourists; working out development scenarios; forecasting; management; territorial planning; and compliance with a special environmental management regime. Stages of AIS design and operation are defined which include both technical and substantive aspects. A brief historical background of the creation and development of AISs is given. The potential of organizing the projected Atlas of Asian Russia in the form of an AIS is considered. The advantages of using AISs in the development of large atlas projects are shown.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Cartographic Service for Assessing an Urban Environment Based on the Atlas
of Urbanized Territories-
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Abstract: Abstract This work is devoted to the development of an online cartographic service for the operational assessment of the quality of the urban environment within urban agglomerations. It is based on digital data from atlases of urbanized territories and allows users to obtain information about the quality of the urban environment at a selected point based on a configurable set of criteria. The paper describes a methodology for the formation of an urban environment quality index, which includes an assessment according to various groups of criteria, such as climatic, social, environmental conditions, and transport infrastructure. For each criterion, a rating method is used that allows one to generate a final index. The territory of the Irkutsk urban agglomeration was chosen as the object of the study. The work describes the stages of creating the service, including data collection and processing, the development of algorithms for calculating indexes, and the creation of a site based on a geoportal. As an example, the calculation of the index of accessibility of secondary schools and the proximity of industrial enterprises is considered. The system being created will make up for the lack of services for rapid assessment of the quality of the urban environment; it will become available to a wide range of users, including professionals and ordinary citizens, and make it possible to use extensive data from atlases of urbanized territories.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Practical Experience in Using the Cartographic Work Results in the Field
of Territorial Nature Protection-
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Abstract: Abstract The article presents an overview of the application of modern cartographic works and analysis of land management, special and thematic maps made in earlier periods in the practice of activities and in the process of optimizing the functioning of specially protected natural areas. The development of a series of thematic atlases of specially protected natural areas of the Russian Asian part made it possible for the first time to build individual landscape maps for most of these objects. This, in turn, helped to determine the representativeness of existing territorial environmental protection systems and identify types of landscapes that are not included in the boundaries of protected natural areas. The practical application of the completed maps reflecting the situation in territorial nature protection revealed: the controversial issue of poaching in the refuge (zakaznik) in Tyva, the territorial overlap of natural parks and refuges in Kamchatka and Khabarovsk regions, mistakes made and then corrected during the trial when approving the boundaries of a natural monument in the Irkutsk region, as well as to develop recommendations on the formation of an ecological or green framework for large cities (Ulaanbaatar, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude), about which scientific articles have already been published. The latest example of the formulation of a master plan for the development of the Ust-Kut small city, related to the regions of the far north, is presented in more detail. This city is the center of the administrative district of the same name in the Irkutsk region, an important transport hub, and the most economically developing territory of the region. The project uses cartographic materials specially created for Ust-Kut.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Mapping as a Method of Displaying the Interconnectedness of Territorial
and Institutional Development-
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Abstract: Abstract This article presents the results of theoretical and methodological approaches and the authors’ practical developments in the field of cartographic mapping of institutions responsible for the development and regulation of tourism and environmental protection infrastructure. The results cover the range from macroregional to local levels: Russia, the Baikal region (Irkutsk oblast, the Republic of Buryatia, and Zabaykalsky krai), and administrative districts and cities located in the central ecological zone of the Baikal natural territory (CEZ BNT). We demonstrate evidence-based approaches to cartographic visualization of the institutional development of two mainstream spheres of life, the connectivity of their regulatory support (basic institutional factor) and territorial structure. This article presents a variant of territorial differentiation of tourist and recreational activities for the Russian Federation based on an institutional approach and cross-cutting indicators and information blocks (tables) prepared for layer-by-layer mapping. Methodological techniques have been developed to assess the legislative, legal, and regulatory security of certain types of tourist and recreational activities, as well as for the typology of tourist territories according to an institutional criterion. Against the background of ecologically determined institutional features of the Baikal region, the domestic regulatory framework for waste management is analyzed. The results of the study show that the modern territorial structure of the national tourism system is characterized by an increase in the fragmentation of recreational zoning from north to south and from east to west due to the increase in favorable natural and climatic conditions, the general level of settlement, development, and transport accessibility. The cartographic representation of the established and planned territorial organization of environmental protection infrastructure is to some extent a reflection of the sustainable ecological and socioeconomic development of the territory of the environmental protection infrastructure in the Baikal region. One of the main problems that needs to be solved with the indicated accelerated development of the tourist and recreational sphere of activity in the eastern regions of Russia is the creation of a modern environmental protection infrastructure, primarily in the Baikal region. The proven geographical tools that are presented here are one of the most effective ways to visualize (display) the state of the emerging waste management system in the first place.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Formation of Biota Mapping Methodology at the Sochava Institute of
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Abstract: Abstract This article examines the historical issues of methodological approaches and specific methods of mapping natural systems developed within the ideas of Academician V.B. Sochava. The stages of the formation of biota mapping as a special direction of cartographic work on the study of the main components of natural complexes—flora and fauna—are considered. These areas have been developing within the framework of the Siberian (Irkutsk) school of regional mapping since the 1960s and were responsible for scientific support for the active development of Siberian territories. A special place was given to the study of the vegetation of the regions as a source of diverse resources and as a critical component of natural complexes that determine many modes of their functioning. For more than half a century of the institute’s history, a team of employees has compiled a large number of inventory and evaluation geobotanical and zoogeographic maps of the Baikal region and its individual territories in the form of small-scale survey versions of the territory of Siberia and large-scale works on key sites. Much attention is paid by the staff to the development of the storyline of maps for atlas mapping. The accumulated scientific knowledge on the study and mapping of the biota of various regions of Siberia, the developed mapping methodology, and the experience of creating large fundamental cartographic works allow us to generalize and develop the ideas and approaches laid down. The use of digital technologies and the creation of databases greatly facilitates the work with big data and allows for a systematic analysis of the relationships of the cartographic image at various levels of generalization.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Cartographic Techniques When Planning the Expansion of Energy Systems in
the Eastern Regions of Russia-
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Abstract: Abstract This paper focuses on the experience of preparing and using cartographic material to show the initial conditions and findings of studies on forecasting the development of the energy subsectors in the eastern regions of Russia. The cartographic techniques, along with the initial information and the tools used to prepare illustrations, are described. The paper presents original materials prepared in cartographic and graphical forms. These materials convey information through symbols and signs for the energy subsectors in regions of the Russian Federation (Irkutsk oblast and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)), and for some territorial or municipal entities (the technologically isolated energy system of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Katangsky District of Irkutsk oblast). Some examples that demonstrate how quantitative indicators are used to divide the territory based on specific indices (levels of gas infrastructure development and renewable energy potential) are given. This study demonstrates the possibility of integrating diverse information to formulate calculation indicators for the technical and economic analysis of gas pipeline routes. The use of cartographic techniques in studies on the expansion of energy systems enables the visualization of their geospatial data, which, combined with energy and economic estimates, as well as various indicators, enhances the validity and facilitates the understanding of the research results.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
- Atlas Mapping of Pacific Russia
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Abstract: Abstract An atlas is a special type of publication of geographical data; it is the result of thematic or complex, applied and fundamental scientific research of a certain territory or object. The systematic presentation of materials in atlases through maps reveals the state, dynamics, and functioning of the territory, or processes peculiar to it, in accordance with strict criteria for the selection of materials and the principles of structuring spatial data. An analysis of atlas works covering the territory of Pacific Russia is carried out in this paper. The article provides an assessment of the coverage of the region with systematized cartographic data. The classification of atlases is carried out, their structural and functional content is studied, and the prospects for the development of atlas mapping of Pacific Russia are assessed. Publications are used that represent exclusively the territory of Pacific Russia (Primorsky krai, Khabarovsk krai, Kamchatka krai, Sakhalin oblast, Magadan oblast, Amur oblast, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug), individual objects and territories, or parts of these subjects. Out of the total number of printed publications designated in the title or subtitle as an atlas (82 pieces), 29 works were selected that can be classified as geographical atlases. The selected atlases are classified according to four criteria—content, purpose, subject of mapping, and cartography. The content is analyzed and 29 geographical atlases representing Pacific Russia, subjects, and individual natural objects are classified according to the selected criteria. The results of the analysis show a weak degree of security in the whole of Pacific Russia and its individual territories with atlas works. The absence of complex works is typical for the entire region, which reflects its lack of systematic, formalized, and uniform cartographic data. It is concluded that the creation of modern regional integrated atlases, as well as the Atlas of Asian Russia (Siberia and the Far East), is not only fundamental, but also of applied importance, including for the successful implementation of programs for the advanced socioeconomic development of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
PubDate: 2024-12-01
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Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
