Experience of Applying Remote Sensing Earth Data in Environmental Forensics

The opportunity of remote sensing Earth data application in performing of environmental forensics is contemplated. Using examples from expert practice, the progress of soil and vegetation mantle examination on the remote sensing materials is analyzed. It is demonstrated that existing methods of data interpretation enable the non-contact reconnaissance of environmental objects on an immense territory signifcantly reducing the time and expense of the expertise. With the help of this method an expert gets an opportunity to perform backcasting of landscape changes and the features of the modern image software make both visual and automated ways of analysis possible. The latest enables subjectivity elimination from interpretation of the images which is essential in getting reasonable expert conclusions.