Monitoring of Land, Natural Resources and Emergency Situations

Monitoring of land, natural resources and emergency situations as a scientific field: concept, methodology, technologies, and information support. Scientific foundations, goals, functions, content and organization of monitoring of land, natural resources and emergency situations at the federal, regional and local levels. Cartographic support for monitoring of land, natural resources and emergency situations. Detection and identification, based on remote sensing data, of precursors of hazardous natural processes and phenomena such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, typhoons, floods, mudflows, avalanches, and others. Aerospace studies of natural and anthropogenic processes and their assessment based on remote sensing data. Application of remote sensing data to detect pollution of various objects for the purposes of environmental protection, research and rational use of natural resources, prevention and reduction of risks of natural disasters and man-made accidents.