Estimation of the infiltration loss volume from the reservoir cooler of the Chernobyl power plant to the Pripyat river using remote sensing research in the microwave and IR ranges

Vadim I. Lyalko; Leonid D. Vulfson; Victor N. Shevchenko; Yuri Vladimirovich Filippov; Nickolay I. Kobets

doi:10.1117/12.298150

30 December 1997 Estimation of the infiltration loss volume from the reservoir cooler of the Chernobyl power plant to the Pripyat river using remote sensing research in the microwave and IR ranges

Vadim I. Lyalko, Leonid D. Vulfson, Victor N. Shevchenko, Yuri Vladimirovich Filippov, Nickolay I. Kobets

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Proceedings Volume 3222, Earth Surface Remote Sensing; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298150
Event: Aerospace Remote Sensing '97, 1997, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

The research problem is to reveal location and estimate total intensity of the filtration flows, that pass under the dam body from the reservoir-cooler and unload to the Pripyat River. With this aim the CARTE airborne-laboratory has provided remote sensing survey of the radiation temperature fields on the ground surface, the soil surface layer moisture and the underground water level depth. As a result of the survey data processing the zones of the wet soil with underground water level higher than ground surface level have been located. Within these zones the low value of T_rad was observed. The value of T_rad was determined on day time by increased heat debit on evaporation and large thermal inertia of the wet soil, retarding its heat by insulation. Such coincidence of positive W anomalies and negative T_rad anomalies made possible to draw conclusion that they were confined to the areas of the underground water unloading from the reservoir-cooler under the dam to the Pripyat River. By resulted data the estimation of the filtration loss value under the dam has been performed.

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Vadim I. Lyalko, Leonid D. Vulfson, Victor N. Shevchenko, Yuri Vladimirovich Filippov, and Nickolay I. Kobets "Estimation of the infiltration loss volume from the reservoir cooler of the Chernobyl power plant to the Pripyat river using remote sensing research in the microwave and IR ranges", Proc. SPIE 3222, Earth Surface Remote Sensing, (30 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298150

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