- The cover theme of this issue is personnel training for work with sophisticated and ever-changing space technologies of our days. The problems of the higher, school and further education are discussed in the sense of creating a continuous process of training specialists, who are to handle permanently changing information technology innovations; training and refresher training of not only the space industry specialists proper, but also of those involved in allied industries and technologies.

 Vladimir Gershenzon,
Editor-in-chief

Also in this issue: comments by experts to the changes in the law relating to the use of remote sensing data in Russia, and a reflection on whether a State can continue to fund space exploration; crowdsourcing and satellite images for geospatial intelligence; competition for «reading» satellite images of the Earth "Find the Maximum of Differences"; "Learning to Read" and "In the Beat of ScanEx" topics; "Beauty of the Earth" section.

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