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Living planet Symposium 2016

Living Planet Symposium 2016 organized by the European space agency in cooperation with the Ministry of transport of the Czech Republic was held in Prague in the period from 9 to 13 May.

The main topic of the symposium was the discussion of the practical applications of Earth remote sensing data in solving the problems of the development of the economy, science and society.

The program of the symposium included more than 3300 reports. V.A. Zeletsov and V.F. Mochalov made two reports on the results of the testing of flood operative monitoring system and the use of hyperspectral data from «Resurs-P» in assessing the condition of crops and measuring the depths.

In addition, during the symposium meetings with representatives of foreign organizations took place and the prospects for cooperation within the framework of international programs and projects were discussed.

GeoCa-2015: LITSAM Workshop

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On November 12, 2015 in the framework of the International Conference on Applied Science «Geodesy, Cartography, Geoinformatics and Cadastre. From idea to application» (GeoCa-2015) our laboratory made a report «Implementation of interdisciplinary projects based on an open GIS platform». In addition, the master-class demonstrated the capabilities of the information-analytical system «RegionView» – GIS platform developed in LITSAM.

You can take a look at the work of RegionView at any time by sending a request to info@litsam.ru.

IMMOD-2015

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LITSAM took part in the 7th All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference «Simulation Modeling. Theory and practice» (IMMOD-2015) that was held on October 21-23, 2015 in Moscow and organized by the Institute of Control Sciences V.A. Trapeznikov Academy of Sciences.

Awards from the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg

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Within the framework of the All-Russian Forum «Strategic Planning in the regions and cities of Russia» the best projects carried out under the Estonia-Latvia and Russia cross-border cooperation program in 2012-2014 were awarded diplomas and prizes of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg.

Among the awarded are the projects performed by LITSAM: «Integrated Intelligent Platform for Monitoring the Cross-Border Natural-Technological Systems» and «Baltic ICT Platform».

Honorary diplomas and prizes were presented by the representative of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.

Congratulations to LITSAM participants of the project!

VIII St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum

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On October 7, 2015 within the framework of the VIII St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum LITSAM made reports at two sessions devoted to the application of modern information technologies for the development of urban infrastructure on the following topics:

«Information technologies for the implementation of interdisciplinary projects on the basis of the St. Petersburg Democenter».
«The use of remote sensing data and mobile geoinformation technologies for urban management».

The first conference on the use of remote sensing data in agriculture

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SPIIRAS was one of the organizers of the first specialized conference on the use of remote sensing in agriculture.

The conference was held on September 16-17 in Agrophysical Institute. Laboratory staff took an active part in preparing and holding the conference. We presented a series of reports authored by Sokolov B.V., Zelentsov V.A., Potryasaev S.A., Kogdanov A.N., Pimanov I.Y., Mochalov V.F. Report of the Laboratory “Directions of development of information and analytical support of regional management systems agro-industrial complex” was submitted at the plenary session. The conference participants noted the usefulness of this annual event with the expansion of the invited organizations in future. The materials of the Congress can be found in the laboratory.

International Congress on remote sensing IGARSS 2015

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A major international forum on the problems of remote sensing (RS) – International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2015 (IGARSS 2015) was held in Milan, Italy from 27 to 31 July.

This congress is organized annually by the International Society for Remote Sensing IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. This time, the Congress was attended by over 2,000 representatives from more than 60 countries. In a special section devoted to the use of remote sensing for monitoring of natural disasters, an report was made by prof. V.A.Zelentsov. Topic: River floods short-term forecasting system based on integrated use of space-ground data. Constructive exchange of results and opinions on the issues of integrated ground-space monitoring and possibilities of international cooperation in this area of research were discussed during the congress/ The materials of the Congress can be found in the laboratory.