Nowadays maps pf various ecological content are 
elaborated with the application of remote sensing 
pnotodatai RSPD). The maps of natural resources which 
characterize the state of basic resources of the 
territory, the level of their utilization and the 
trend of modern development with the consideration of 
the anthropogenic influence, are mostly actual and 
of outstanding importance. The mentioned maps 
compiled by quick mode present the source of unique 
complex information. The compilation of such maps is 
first of all profitable for the territories of 
intensive economic development which suffer from the 
lack of information and where the updating of the 
information about the whole file of ecological 
situation parameters is necessary. 
The technology of mapping by remote sensing 
photoimages and utilization of the data obtained from 
traditional methods are of the high economic 
efficiency and can be used for the study of any 
territory. The State Centre "PRIRODft" of Main 
Administration of Geodesy and Cartography of the USSR 
aiming to develop the cooperation with other- 
countries and organizations, performs interbranch 
processing of acquired data, supply this data to 
work operators, render methodical assistance in the 
application of RSPD for thematic mapping. 
Considering the scopes of the ecological 
situations development in the territorial aspect,i.e, 
when their location, development and distribution 
area is taken into account, we will understand the 
importance of the word "the territory" as having deep 
ecological sense. The territory as a special type of 
spatial assembly of natural resources turns more 
important than the resource is. The last can be 
changed, but the territory is an exhausting and 
nonrenewable ecological resource. So the 
territorial approach based on the studies of 
geographical laws is very important and necessary. 
The existing conception of the ecological systems 
is understood as the problem of an exchange between 
the organisms and the environment. It is not 
connected with the space and the scale and that is 
why does not have its geographical dimensions. Due to 
the fact that the term of the ecological situation is 
considered in limits of geosystems as the feature of 
their activity and development, biotic elements must 
be characterized in the limits of landscape outlines. 
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