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IAPRS & SIS, Vol.34, Part 7, “Resource and Environmental Monitoring", Hyderabad, India, 2002 
INTEGRATED HIGH RESOLUTION RS&GIS TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESOURCE 
MANAGEMENT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 
Mikhail M. Fomtchenko, Oleg V. Kouznetsov, Alexey S. Movlyav 
Sovinformsputnik, 47, Leningradskiy Pr., 125167 Moscow, Russia 
phone: (7-095)-943-07-57 
fax: (7-095)-943-05-85 
e-mail: common@sovinformsputnik.com 
KEY WORDS: Remote Sensing, GIS, Management, High resolution, Three-dimensional, Integration 
ABSTRACT: 
The remote sensing applications have been intensively developed for recent years. Big changes take place at all levels and all 
structural elements of the industry. Russia has big and multi-year experience of civil application of high-resolution remote sensing 
data. During the last 10 years the commercial applications of the data with 1-2m ground resolution have been developed very 
actively. The report is to review the following aspects: 
- the most important components of the technology including the space segment, on-ground segment, processing of data; 
- GIS including for the regional resource management. 
Special attention is to be paid to the processing of Data. This is the most important aspect from the point of view of the estimate of 
the prospect and directions of the further development of the industry of high-resolution remote sensing. Closer and closer 
INTRODUCTION 
Civil applications of high resolution remote sensing have been 
developing intensively during the recent years. As in any other 
quickly developing field, there are various problems — political, 
juridical, technical. Nevertheless, high resolution data have 
brought a lot of new and useful. Big changes are taking place at 
all levels and in all structural elements of the industry. 
It is paradoxical but fact that wide use of high resolution data 
in civil applications has showed that the requirements of civil 
users are in most cases harder than the requirements of 
traditional customers of high resolution images. 
The emphasis has already moved from the problems of 
obtaining or gaining of information to the field of problems of 
effective use of information and the problems of providing of a 
customer with information in accessible and convenient form. 
For the huge territory of Asian-Pacific region and its various 
environmental complex, satellite systems of on-line monitoring 
of the Earth must be considered as the main source for forming 
of monitoring information base. In many countries there is 
accumulated wide information obtained from various satellites 
in the form of images of the Earth obtained in acquisitions in 
different spectral range and different spatial resolutions. 
Particularly, in Russia there is formed a huge archive of high 
resolution data as well as data bases of topographic and 
geodetic information. Nevertheless, it is predicted that by year 
2010 the main problem of global mapping will become meeting 
the requirements of different regions of the world for new 
maps. The fact is that mapping of significant territories has 
been carried out many years and even decades ago and the 
cartographic materials need updating for long tome. This 
requirement will be increasing as time passes. 
It is possible to avoid deficiency of information by establishing 
of regional centres of Earth monitoring on the basis of modern 
means of receiving and processing of satellite, aerial and other 
information. These means should provide automatic machine 
interpretation of the results of imaging, synthesise thematic 
maps for complex analysis of territories, form and develop 
local or regional geo-information systems (GIS). Prospective 
information technologies of monitoring are connected with 
development of such purposive regional geo-information 
systems. On their basis it is possible to effectively maintain 
land and water cadastre, to manage resources, to solve 
ecological tasks, regional land use tasks, thematic mapping 
tasks, etc. 
CENTRE FOR OBTAINING, RECEIVING AND 
PROCESSING OF INFORMATION 
The main elements of functionality of such Centre are the 
following: 
- Space segment; 
- ground segment; 
- data processing technologies; 
- data distribution system. 
Approximate structure of regional centre for monitoring of the 
Earth is shown on Figure 1. 
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