In the past decades we have been witnessing cessation of both military and political bipolar confrontation of the super powers. The world has become multipolar. There emerged new policy makers influencing social-economic, political, informational and technological life of the planet.  Modern technology-intensive industries, which include space imaging, are to a great extent accelerators and at the same time indicators of on-going processes.

Growing demand in satellite images and the respective need in improving efficiency of their application lead to rapid development of integrated technologies, which are only partially comprised of combined informational and technological packages for control of an enterprise, infrastructure or a territory. There are mass services that have already been transforming and in the near future will change beyond recognition characteristics and style of operation with geospatial information.

Vladimir Gershenzon
Editor-in-Chief,
ScanEx RDC General Director

Cover story

Satellite based commercial EO industry. By B. Rekha

The Maritime Surveillance Challenge. By J. Hurley

Format as a Platform. By V. Dubinya, O. Ryaboshapko

Pléiades: success story of a new birth. By Ch. Gabriel-Robez

e-CORCE , the Space Observing system to the service of everyone. By P. Antikidis

Small-size satellites: miniaturization trends

Popular RS data catalogues: optimal access to data for commercial projects by E.Ermakova

GIS technologies and RS for rational nature management. By E. Tsybikova

Using satellite images for environmental and geochemical studies of urban area. By I. Labutina, E. Baldina, M. Grischenko, T. Khaybrakhmanov

Vast discharges from vessels in Black Sea - legal frames. By A. Ivanov, N. Filimonova, N. Evtushenko, A. Antonyuk

Natural oil seepage in south-eastern part of the Black Sea per space radar imagery data. By A. Ivanov, N. Evtushenko

Public monitoring of toll roads construction activities in Moscow and Moscow Region. By M. Sementsova, E. Tsybikova, O. Gershenzon

2011 ERS satellites launch results. By A. Kucheiko

Q&A

New projects vs old problems

CONFERENCES

DGI 2012: development and convergence of geospatial intelligence technology. By A. Kucheiko

Results of the 5^th International Conference “Earth from Space - the Most Effective Solutions”
Events calendar. March-May 2012.