Yavor Shopov
Sofia University
Bulgaria
Title: Using of microsatellites for remote locating of unknown caves and underground facilities
Biography
Biography: Yavor Shopov
Abstract
Location of caves on Mars can be of vital importance for future manned exploration of the planet, because such caves are appropriate for storage chambers and shelters of astronauts during the initial stages of the planet exploration. International Union of Speleology (UIS) started a new international programme on Techniques for Remote Location of Caves (RLC) using thermal vision technique. It is leaded by the author. This project aims to locate new unknown caves in hardly accessible regions and will be extremely helpful to locate caves in remote regions with extremely rough surface and even on other planets. This programme consists of the following stages: 1) To optimize techniques on the surface of the Earth and to calibrate it on known caves and artificial underground facilities. 2) To use it to locate new unknown caves. 3) To use thermal vision cameras on airplanes and helicopters to locate caves in hardly accessible regions from the sky. 4) To install observational instruments for location of caves on microsatellites. 5) To design equipment for space probes for location of caves on Mars.