Program and materials

Opening Ceremony

Words of welcome:

Olga Gershenzon, ScanEx RDC Vice-President, Organizing Committee Chairperson

Matthew O'Connell, CEO, President and Director, GeoEye

Rani Hellerman, Director Business Development & Customer Support, ImageSat International N.V.

Academician Nikolay Kasimov, Dean of the Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society, Full  Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor

Sergey Zhukov, executive director of Cluster of space technologies and telecommunications, the Skolkovo Foundation

Integration of Science, Business & Education

Session chairman:

Vladimir Gershenzon, General Director, R&D Center ScanEx

Sergey Zhukov, executive director of Cluster of space technologies and telecommunications, the Skolkovo Foundation

Keynote speakers:

1. Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting, Group Executive Chairman, Luis Gomes, Director of Earth Observation & Science, SSTL, Great Britain. "Small Satellite for Operational Earth Observation missions"

2. Natalya Dumnaya, professor, inancial University under the Government of the RF, Russia. “Knowledge-based Companies as New Milestones of Economic Development”

3. Vladimir Gershenzon, General director of R&D Center ScanEx, Russia. ”From network concept to network interaction”

4. Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. "Current Status of Terra, Aqua, and NPP Direct Broadcast"

5. Sergey Zhukov, executive director of Cluster of space technologies and telecommunications, the Skolkovo Foundation, Russia. “On the development of foresight of the Cluster of space technologies and telecommunications”

Status of Remote Sensing Market & National Policy

Session co-chairmen:

Adam Keith, Director, Earth Observation, Euroconsult

Matthew O’Connell, CEO, President and Director, GeoEye

Sergey Miller, President of GIS-Association

Andrey Potapov, head of strategic development group, R&D Center ScanEx

Keynote speakers:

1. Adam Keith, Director, Earth Observation, Euroconsult, Canada. “Earth Observation: State of Play & Future Prospects”

2. Matthew O'Connell, CEO, President and Director, GeoEye, USA. “GeoEye’s Success Through the Prism of U.S. Space Policy”

3. Ash Elena, executive director of Association “Earth from Space”, Russia. “Russian remote sensing market: evolution, revolution or degradation?”

4. Rani Hellerman, Director Business Development & Customer Support, ImageSat Int. N.V., Israel. “National programs and national policies”

Status of Remote Sensing Market & National Policy

Session co-chairmen:

Adam Keith, Director, Earth Observation, Euroconsult

Matthew O’Connell, CEO, President and Director, GeoEye

Sergey Miller, President of GIS-Association

Andrey Potapov, head of strategic development group, R&D Center ScanEx

Keynote speakers:

5. Paulo Bezerra, Director, MSS and GSI, MDA, Canada. "Status of Remote Sensing Market & National Policy - The Canadian RADARSAT Experience"

6. Herve Buchwalter, Chairman of Spot Image, Astrium GEO-Information Services, France. «Astrium GEO Strategy and regional partnership with ScanEx»

7. Koji Ueda, department manager Location Intelligence Division Hitachi Solutions, Japan. ”Remote Sensing Market Trend in Japan and Hitachi's Activities using High Resolution Satellite Imagery”

8. Rene Pischel, Head of the ESA Permanent Mission in Russia. “ESA Earth Observation Program”

Images of the Earth from Space and geospatial data for WEB

Session co-chairmen:

Andrey Strelkov, Head of content services dept., Yandex

Vladimir Gershenzon, General director of R&D Center ScanEx

Keynote speakers:

1. Yoichi Kamiyama, CEO & President, Japan Space Imaging, Japan.”Challenge to Web-based Geospatial Data Distribution Platform”

2. Jean-Pierre Antikidis, Chief Executive, Blue Planet, France. “Civil Space Earth Observation to take off massively thanks to Internet  technologies: The e-CORCE programme”

3. Lev Spivak, Sergey Voinov, Sultangazin Space Research Institute, Kazakhstan Republic. “Development of Space monitoring situation centers network and mapping services in Kazakhstan”

4. Tatiana Gribtsova, Deputy head of Center of Information Technologies of Volgograd region, Russia. “Management of regional resources on the base of Infrastructure of Spatial Data”.

5. Andrey Strelkov, Head of content services dept., Yandex, Russia. “Satellite images application for non-professional purposes on the Yandex.Maps geoportal”

Satellite Data for Intelligence Service & National Defense

Sponsor of the Session: Northern Geographical Company, LLC

Co-Chairmen:

Anton Sorokin, Northern Geographical Company, LLC

Rani Hellerman, ImageSat Int. N.V.

Presentations:

1. Alexey Kucheiko, Mariya Dorofeeva, R&D Center ScanEx, Russia. “Imagery Intelligence and Civil Geoinformatic Market Synergism”

2. Rani Hellerman, ImageSat Int. N.V., Israel. "From pixels to national security”

3. Marco van der Kooij, MDA, Canada. "Operational Change Detection and Monitoring Applications using RADARSAT-2”

4. Jérôme Soubirane, Astrium GEO-Information Services, France. “Astrium GEO solutions for Defence mapping and MGCP experience”

5. Luca Pietranera, Filippo Britti, Lucio Cesarano, Vittorio Gentile, e-GEOS, Italy. “The COSMO-SkyMed Constellation: Expanding Very High Resolution SAR Products For Intelligence Application”

6. Andrew Hanna, GeoEye, USA. “GeoEye Solutions for National Security. Changing the Paradigm”

Workshop

“Technologies and software for remote sensing processing”

Co-chairmen: Victor Adrov, CJSC “Racurs”

Maxim Alexandrov, Geo-Alliance

Ilya Farutin, R&D Center ScanEx

Presentations:

1. Maxim Alexandrov, Geo-Alliance, Russia. “Interferometric processing of remotely sensed data in Gamma Software (Switzerland)”

2. Victor Adrov, Mikhail Drakin, CJSC “Racurs”, Russia. “High performance fully automatic pipeline creation of orthophotos from RSD with PHOTOMOD Conveyor”

3. Valentyn A. Tolpekin, Alfred Stein, Faculty ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands. «Object based super resolution mapping with Markov Random Field»

4. Yury Kopin, Esri-CIS, Russia. “LIDAR in ArcGIS 10.1. New features and tools”

5. Frithjof Barner, Euromap GmbH, Germany “DSMs from IRS-P5 Cartosat-1”

6. Gregory Stepanov, Easy Trace Group, Russia. “Time to gather stones together”

7.Ilya Farutin, ScanEx R&D Center, Russia. “Software solutions of ScanEx RDC for RS data processing”

Round table

Satellite meteorology: up-to-date realities

Moderator: Dmitry Fedotkin, R&D Center ScanEx

Presentations:

1. Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. “About Terra, Aqua/MODIS and future NPP/VIIRS products”

2. Jose-Luis Casanova, LATUV, University of Valladolid, Spain. “About experience of production and use of MODIS products”

3. Natalya Tolmacheva N., Perm State National Research University, Russia, Chichasov G., Refresher Training Institute for the employees of RosHydroMet, Russia. “Satellite images processing models for weather forecasts”

4. N. Elansky, R. Shumsky, A. Obukhov Institute of Atmosphere Physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Mikhail Lokoschenko, I. Polezhayeva, M. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Geographic faculty, Lengory, Moscow, Russia. “Analysis of Air Pollution Process in Moscow in the Summer of 2010 with the Application of Satellite-based Images”

Remote Sensing for Disaster Management

Co-chairmen:

Alexander Yepikhin, EMERCOM of Russia

Alexei Kucheiko, R&D Center ScanEx

Presentations:

1. Jérôme Soubirane, Astrium GEO-Information Services, France. «Forest Fires assessment and  monitoring with Spot and Flood mapping with TerraSAR-X»

2. Alexander Yepikhin EMERCOM of Russia. “Emergency Space Monitoring System Experience”

3. David Hodgson, Gary Holmes, Adina Gillespie, DMCii, Great Britain. “Applications of DMC Imagery for Disaster Management”

4. Natalya Rybchak, EMERCOM of Russia, Murmansk region office, Russia. "Using the remote sensing data for emergency response at JSC "White Sea oil depot"

5. Alexey Solomakhov, Yuriy Yusupov, MapMakers Group Ltd., Russia. "Operational prognosis of extraordinary situations in GIS “Meteo” technology”

6. Artem Nikitsky, Natalya Mitkinyh, R&D Centre ScanEx, Russia. “Operational satellite-based monitoring of low-intensity peat bogs fires”

Workshop of GeoEye

“GeoEye’s New Capabilities. From Online Access to Onsite Content Management and Web Dissemination. Advanced Analysis and Imagery Processing”

Speaker:

Andrey Shumakov

Workshop

“Small satellites: design, tests and exploitation”

Chairman: Luis Gomes, SSTL

Presentations:

1. Gary Holmes, Paul Stephens, DMCii. “The DMC Constellation, Sensors and Next Generation Satellites”

2. Dmitry Bogdanov, ECM space technologies GmbH, Germany. «Satellite platform LEOS-50 with interactive system of orientation for remote sensing of the Earth in real time mode. Technology transfer program on the base of platform LEOS-50”

3. Mayorova V., Popov A., Rachkin D., Tetenbaum S., Nerovny N., Dmitriev A., Bauman Moscow State University, Russia. “Technological experiment to deploy a two-blade solar sail using mini-satellites”

4. Ovchinnikov M., Ivanov D., Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russia. “Studying and laboratory testing of micro-satellites control algorithms”

5. Spas Balinov, NovaNano SAS, France. “NovaSat™: Advanced Nanosatellite Bus”

Near-Real Time Maritime Services

Co-chairmen:

Andrey Ivanov, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS

Alexei Kucheiko, R&D Center ScanEx

Presentations:

1. Andrey Ivanov, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Anna Antonyuk, Natalya Filimonova, NatalyaEvtushenko, ScanEx R&D Center.  “Large oil spills in the Black Sea – all is legal?”

2. Simon Chesworth, ExactEarth, Canada. “Next generation Satellite AIS and its effect on comprehensive and persistent global vessel monitoring”

3. Natalya Filimonova, Anna Antonyuk, ScanEx R&D Center. “Comprehensive satellite monitoring of sea areas”

4. Dr. Burcu Ozsoy-Cicek, Istanbul Technical University. “Remote Sensing of Maritime Applications”

5. Jean-Yves Le Bras, CLS, France, Alexander Salman, ES-PAS, Russia. “Satellite services supporting maritime security and safety”

6. Tee Mati, “Regio JSC, Estonia. “Baltic Sea flood risk warning system (IAP)”

Workshop of Hitachi Solutions

“GeoPDF — Easy-to-use GIS solution”

Round table

“Mini-satellites: perspectives in Russia and in the world”

Moderator: Stas Karpenko, “SPUTNIKS” Ltd.

Presentations:

1. Naumenko D., Scientific and Research Laboratory of Aerospace Mechanisms, Russia. “Practical aspects of small satellites’ active attitude”

2. Elena Kravtsova, “INNOTER Geoinnovation Agency” LLC, Russia “Kanopus-V” perspective satellite. “Kanopus-V” satellite images  processing technology in the “Photomod” Digital Photogrammetric System”

3. Inessa Glazkova, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center”, Russia. “Challenges and perspectives for creation of satellites in the XXI century”

4. Christopher Richins, VP Business Development, Arkyd Astronautics, Inc., USA. “Small spacecraft in the U.S. “New Space” industry.”

5. Stanislav Karpenko, “SPUTNIKS” Ltd., Russia. “Micro-satellite engineering challenges and solutions”

 Remote Sensing for the Arctic

Co-chairmen:

Anatoly Davydov, “Atomflot”

Sergei Brestkin, AARI of Roshydromet

Alexei Kucheiko, R&D Center ScanEx

Presentations:

1. Anatoly Davydov, “Atomflot”, Russia. “Ice monitoring at the Northern Sea Route”

2. Sergei Brestkin, Oleg Devyatayev, Arctic&Antarctic Research Institute, Russia. “Remote sensing of Earth from space - the main source of background information in the «Sever» system"

3. V. Pischalnik, Vyacheslav Melkiy, A. Galtsev, V. Romanyuk, I. Eremenko, N. Semenov, I. Minervin, Sakhalin State University. “Use of remote sensing data for ice situation research in the Far East seas”

4. Vladimir Solovyov, E. Varlamova, Y.G. Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy SB RAS, Russia. “Investigation of changes in vegetation cover of the Arctic zone of Eastern Siberia on the long-term satellite data”

5. Anatoly Gavrilov, E. Pizhankova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. “Remote sensing data for studying dangerous natural phenomena in permafrost zone”

6. Alexey Kucheiko, Dmitry Dobrynin, R&D Center SCANEX, Anatoly Davydov, “Atomflot”, Russia. «Operative iceberg drift monitoring in Vilkizky Strait in 2011»

Round table jointly with the Association “Earth from Space”

“Role of social organizations in forming regulatory framework in the field of remote sensing”

Moderators:

Sergey Sapelnikov, Deputy Head of Rosreestr,

Ash Elena, executive director of Association “Earth from Space”

Master-class of ScanEx RDC

“Modern algorithms of RS data classification using ScanEx Image Processor”

Moderator:

Ilya Farutin, R&D Center SCANEX

Remote Sensing for needs of Mineral and Water Resources Use

Co-chairmen:

Sergey Donskoy, General Director of “Rosgeologiya”

Yuriy Baranov, Head of Geoinformation and Space Technologies Department, “Gazprom VNIIGAZ”

Victor Lavrov, General Director, GIA “INNOTER”

Presentations:

1. Prof. Yuriy Baranov, K. Kiselevskaya, L. Kozhina, M. Vanyarkho, Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC, Russia. “Use of remotely sensed data for monitoring of land surface deformations of gas fields and prediction of hydrocarbon deposits”

2. Prof. Victor Akovetskiy, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Russia. "Geo-information atlas of aerospace monitoring surveillances of oil and gas infrastructure objects”

3. Alexander Orlovsky, “INNOTER Geoinnovation Agency” LLC, Russia. “An experience of high-accuracy DEMs for forested and snow covered territories creation based on GeoEye-1 satellite stereo space imagery”

4. Andrey Kichigin, “Baikal Center” LLC, Russia. “Development of scientifically based methodic guidelines for the use of remote sensing data to perform tasks of “Rosvodresursy”

5. Aleksandr Kirsanov, Konstantin Lipiyaynen, FGUP«VSEGEI», St.-Petersburg, Russia. “Use of data of remote sensing at geological works”

Open Meeting of Consortium “Universities geoportals (UNIGEO)“

Moderator: Vladislav Sergeev, Korolev Samara State  Aerospace University

Master-class of ScanEx RDC

“In-depth processing of RS data in ScanEx Image Processor”

Moderator: Ilya Farutin, R&D Center ScanEх

Remote Sensing and Natural Renewable Resources

Co-chairmen:

Lev Spivak, U.M. Sultangazin Space Research Institute

Mikhail Stepanov. Federal State Enterprise “The Centre of Agrochemical Service “Novosibirskiy”,

Sergey Mikhailov, R&D Center ScanEx

Alexander Maslov, Institute of Forest Science RAS

Presentations:

1. Gary Holmes, Paul Stephens, DMCii, Great Britain. “Exploiting Multitemporal DMC Imagery for Agricultural Monitoring and Land Cover Classification”

2. Mikhail Stepanov, Svetlana Esbatirova, Federal State Enterprise “The Centre of Agrochemical Service “Novosibirskiy”, Russia."Use of satellite images in agriculture”

3. Dmitry Rukhovich, V.V.Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Russia. “Mapping of Farmlands in the European Part of Russia Using GIS and RS for Fire Monitoring on Agricultural Lands”

4. Lev Spivak, Nadia Muratova, Irina Vitkovskaya, M. Batyrbaeva, A. Kauazov, U.M. Sultangazin Space Research Institute, Republic of Kazakhstan. “Risk assessment of drought regions for Kazakhstan on the base of many years satellite observations”

5. Sergei Mikhailov, ScanEx RDC, Russia. “Wide swath monitoring systems – new possibilities of operational services for agricultural monitoring”

6. Katarzyna Wisniewska, Jim Lynch, David Hodgson, Gary Holmes, DMCii, Great Britain. “Applications of DMC Imagery for Forest Mapping and Monitoring”

7. Sergey Tetyuhin, E. Gladkov, State Forest Engineering University, U. Тyutikov, State University  of Economics and Finance, St.-Petersburg, Russia. “Remote Sensing as a basis for a justification of the long-time investments in a wood complex”

Master-class, MDA and ScanEx R&D Center

“Applications for SAR Data in Russia”

Master-class of Geo-Alliance

“GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) is advanced technology of accelerated and automated processing of aerial and satellite images"

Extended plenary session

Remote Sensing and Renewable Natural Resources

Co-chairmen:

Lev Spivak, U.M. Sultangazin Space Research Institute

Mikhail Stepanov. Federal State Enterprise “The Centre of Agrochemical Service “Novosibirskiy”,

Sergey Mikhailov, R&D Center ScanEx

Alexander Maslov, Institute of Forest Science RAS

Presentations:

8. Alexander Guryev, D. Trubin, R. Aleshko, Northern (Artic) Federal University, Russia. “Forest Data Updating Methods”

9. Nadezhda Vladimirova, E. Esipova, NGO Transparent World, Russia. “Use of Landsat imagery for creating publicly available forest map of Northern European Russia”

10. Ilona Zhuravleva, Greenpeace Russia. “Intact Forest Landscapes in the Tropics: Mapping and Monitoring in 2000–2010”

Workshop

“Experience of agrichemical service of Novosibirsk region for monitoring agricultural lands with use of up-to-date technologies and satellite images”

Speaker:

Mikhail Stepanov, Head of Federal State Enterprise “The Centre of Agrochemical  Service “Novosibirskiy”

Satellite Data for Nature Protection and Civil Society

Chairman:

Oganes Targulyan, R&D Center SCANEX

Presentations:

1. Stéphane Chevrel, BRGM, “Earth Observation in Monitoring Environmental and Societal Impacts of Mining”

2. I. Semenova, A. Boltunov, Council on Marine Mammals, Russia, A. Knizhnikov, WWF Russia, A. Kucheiko, N. Evtushenko, ScanEx R&D Centre, Russia. “Satellite-based monitoring of Atlantic walrus population in the South East of the Barents Sea. Procedure development and first results”

3. Natalya Rogova, NGO “Transparent World”, Russia. “Open portal of Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia for wildfires monitoring on nature protected areas. Preliminary results of the first year of operation”

4. Ekaterina Tsybikova, NGO “Transparent World”, Russia. Volobyev N., Regional Public Organization “Sakhalin Environmental Watch”, Russia. “Satellite monitoring of the pacific salmon coastal fishery on Sakhalin (Russian Far East)"

5. Waldemar Krebs, Trimble Geospatial, Germany. “GISAT eCognition Architect solution for Geoland 2, GMES Land Services (Geoland 2 SATChMo Africa)”

6. Alekseyevsky N., Aybulatov D., Krivushin M., Frolova N., Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. “Application of satellite information in prediction of the anthropogenic effects on the hydroecology in the basin of transboundary river Argun”

Master-class of CJSC “Racurs”

“PHOTOMOD Technologies for processing optical and radar remotely sensed data”

Round table jointly with Association «Earth from Space” and GIS Association

“Earth observation market studies: international approaches and Russian specifics”

Moderators:

Elena Ash, executive director of Association “Earth from Space”

Sergey Miller, President of GIS Association

Presentations:

Mark Noort, ITC, the Netherlands. “Earth Observation Market Studies”

Monitoring of infrastructure facilities

Co-chairmen:

Alexander Vasileysky, JSC NIIAS.

Mikhail Zimin, R&D Center SCANEX

Presentations:

1. Alexander Vasileysky, JSC NIIAS. “Results of satellite monitoring of hazards on the railway infrastructure facilities in Tuapse-Adler site”

2. Alexander Kurmanov, Vladimir Umansky, “Intechgeotrans”, Russia. «Implementation of GIS technology using high resolution satellite images for management and administration of real-estate of JSC “Russian Railways”

3. Ivan Lobanov, JSC NIIAS. "Specifics of forming coverage of linear extended territories using georeferenced VHR satellite images for monitoring of infrastructure objects”

4. Zelentsov V., St-Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automatization, Russia. Kovalev A., FSUE “Arsenal after M.V.Frunze”, Russia, Okhtilev M., ZAO “Orion Design Bureau”, Russia, Sokolov B., St-Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automatization, Russia, Trushine I., Riga Technical University, Latvia, Khimenko V., Valery Matyash, St-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrument Engineering, Russia. “Development of the integrated ground-space monitoring systems on the basis of scientific, educational and industrial resources of the North-West region”

5. Vladimir Gnatushenko, Аlexander Reuta, Dmitry Sushchevsky, Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University, Ukraine. “Information technology of identification and visualization of changes in buildings using remote sensing images”

6. Andrey Zaytsev, T. Melyoshkina, Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT), Russia. “Use space and aerial survey for effective of managememt of  the railway subgrade reliability”

7. Timofey Orlov, Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience Russian Academy of Sciences (IEG RAS), Russia. “Comparison of the Interpretation Possibility of Exogenous Geological Hazards Using Airborne and Space Images (Monitoring of Gas and Oil Pipelines)”

Education Session

Co-chairmen:

Evgeny Kapralov, Saint-Petersburg State University

Marina Sergeeva, R&D Center SCANEX

Keynote speakers:

1. Sergey Bluzhin, Marina Sheveleva, Stavropol region, secondary school #3, Russia. “Satellite Images of the Earth. Elective Training Course”

2. Evgeny Kapralov, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia.  "Geoinformation education in Russia: current status and future”

3. Denis Zhilin, Moscow Institute of Open Education, Russia, Anton Bashev, Moscow secondary school #192, Russia.  “Data bases using remotely sensed data in education”

4. Antonina Savvinova, A. Nikolaev, North-Eastern Federal University after M.K.Ammosov, Russia. "Use of satellite techniques in education at the faculty of Biology and Geography of the North-Eastern Federal University”

5. Natalya Tolmacheva, Perm state national research university, Russia, G. Chichasov, Institute of improvement of professional skill of Federal Hydrometereology and Environmental Monitoring Service, Russia. “Application of the space information in educational and research activity of students”

6. Pavel Chernyshkov, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia. "Experience of remote sensing images use in education of highly qualified specialists in oceanology"