Anatoly I. Poletaev, Sc.D. (Geology and Mineralogy), Head of the Laboratory of Geological Research by Cosmic Methods, Chair of Dynamic Geology, Geological Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
The observation and detection of different phenomena and processes, i.e. their interpretation / reading / interpretation made by man since the earliest stages of demic diffusion both in the interest of safety and driven by the desire of knowing the world. On the other hand, modern trend of total textuality could lead to unexpected and interesting results if we try to consider process of obtaining and interpreting information in the natural sciences through the prism of the textual approach.
In my article, I have attempted to examine the basic features of reading the texts of Nature with the help of maps, aerial photographs and satellite images in terms of modern concepts of general textuality.
This subject has caused the choice of research methods: satellite-image interpretational and lineament analysis (applied to the geological part of my article) and structurally functional and system analysis, method of linguistic description, and contextual method within the anthropocentric principle of research (applied to the study of maps and satellite images as a kind of texts and meta-texts).
In my article, I tried to show all geographical / geological maps are not only non-textual symbolic image of several objects (territories and regions), but, in the framework of modern pan-textual paradigm, they are a sort of texts (for their readers) and meta-texts (of the Nature, of course, if we consider the nature also as the totality of texts, and of culture, because all maps are included in cultural context). Moreover, ‘reading’ maps is also a dialogue both with it as such and with the Nature. In its turn, satellite images decryption is also a kind of specific ‘reading’, which is hermeneutic procedure in a greater degree.
I'm tracing the history of the development of techniques of satellite images interpretation and the creation of a new type of maps based on them. Focusing on such property of space images as visibility, I show how this, as well as their high-resolving ability, documentary and generalization of earth's imagery peculiar to them, helps to detect and interpret the specific structural forms of the earth crust.
I conclude pan-textual paradigm, in the dialogue between the humanities and natural sciences, allows identifying and understanding some of the methodological characteristics of the decryption process.
Gogol N.V. "Thoughts about Geography." Complete Writings. Moscow and Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences Publisher, 1952, volume 8, pp. 98-106. (In Russian).
Poletaev A.I. On the Understanding Role and Importance of Rotation Factor in the Earth Formation and Evolution: Facts, Discussion, and Conclusions. Moscow: LIBROKOM Publisher, 2011. 200 p. (In Russian).
Poletaev A.I. "Sphenoid Tectonics of the Earth." Actual Problems of Regional Geology and Geodynamics. 17th Gorshkov’s Reading. Proceedings of the Conference Devoted to the 106th Anniversary of the Birth of G.P. Gorshkov (1909—1984). Moscow State University, April 28, 2015. Moscow: Moscow State University, 2015, pp. 30—33. (In Russian).
Poletaev A.I. "Singular Structural Forms of the Earth and Some Regularities of Bio- and Ethno-Socio-Tectonics." Prostranstvo i Vremya [Space and Time] 1–2(19–20) (2015): 198–208. (In Russian).
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