STRUCTURAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE WETLAND COVER OF WESTERNSIBERIA USING SPACE PHOTOGRAPHS

The paper analyses the wetland cover of the plains using medium-resolu tion space photographs. A list of interpretational features, including systematic features (relating to the geography, the climate zone and the lithology and geomorphology) and direct features (morphological, p hytocenotic) is given. On images, the morphology of peat bogs has univ ersal diagnostic properties and may be used to detect edges on photogr aphs. The structural and morphological map obtained by interpretation, serves as a basis for geographical extrapolation of key ground charac teristics and various types of interpretable images of wetland.