Topics of Plenary sessions
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1 | Region managemen - Satellite imagery as a means of saving funds and recharging local budgets;
- Space images – is the source of reliable, unbiased and permanently updated information to draw region planning schemes, for land cadastre inventory, as well as the source of data for emergencies prevention, mitigation and response, environmental protection, forests, arable lands and industrial and infrastructural facilities status monitoring, and of course, is the material for training of young specialists and preparation of future executives and decision-makers.
| 2 | Nature protection- Protected natural areas efficient management and supervision;
- Improvement of forestry operations efficiency;
- Environmental impact assessment during engineering;
- Ecological monitoring and environmental management control.
| 3 | Education, science and business integration for sustainable development
- Integration of Russian higher education institutions based on educational space monitoring centers;
- Educational institutions and employers partnership models;
- Continuous education system development: school-college-refresher courses.
| 4 | Internet and geo-information systems (WEB&GIS)
"Mini-conference"- Geo-information services and products on the market;
- New solutions in sphere of system GIS integration: geoportals, metadata catalogs, GIS-solutions application in web-mapping;
- Open interfaces: web as a platform for standardization and geo-spatial information exchange;
- Access to geodata and their availability: public and "private" approaches to the geodata generation and distribution.
| 5 | RS programs- Reports of all world’s largest Operators of optical and radar programs will be delivered, including: ImageSat Int N.V. (EROS A/B satellites), Telespazio/e-Geos (COSMO SkyMed series of satellites), GeoEye (IKONOS, GeoEye) SPOT Image SA (SPOT 2/4, 5 satellites), Hitachi Software Co. Ltd. (Quickbird), MDA (RADARSAT 1/2), Antrix Corp. (IRS series of satellites), EUSI (IKONOS).
| 6 | Remote sensing to reduce risks of natural calamities and to estimate impacts of natural and technological disasters- Floods and freshets;
- Forest and steppe fires;
- Early detection and monitoring of water, soil and atmospheric pollutions
- Torrential and avalanche hazards in mountain areas;
- Monitoring of dynamics and impact assessment of major human-induced disasters.
| 7 | Data processing tools and technologies- Space images preliminary processing;
- Satellite data archiving;
- Interpretation and creation of thematic products (3D terrain models, base maps, forest cover maps, crops condition and productivity assessment maps, industrial infrastructure maps, etc.)
| 8 | Satellite-based methods of maritime monitoring- Ecological conditions of water and seaport areas, offshore oil and gas production areas;
- Ice situation estimations;
- Near-real time ship detection, control and detection of ships, involved in illegal fishing and oil pollution at seas.
| 9 | Remote Sensing in Forestry- Results and prospects of governmental program of remote monitoring of forest lands;
- Specifics of using space images from different satellites to resolve monitoring and state forest inventory tasks;
- Process flow «from satellite to interpreter»;
- Application of space images for forests protection;
- Regional aspects of forest use applying web-technology
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