Victor Savorsky, Institute of Radioelectrinics RAS

Abstracts:

The main goal of the joint Russia-Italy-U.K. INTAS project IRIS is to research techniques aimed at improving the accessibility of Russian Environmental satellite data. Developments in GIS and WWW technologies are providing new tools for finding and retrieving data over computing networks. The specific objectives of the project are to investigate issues concerning 1)the structure and generation of Russian satellite information resources(including database generation, archiving, metadata generation and catalogue creation; 2) catalogue access and data delivery over the Internet; 3) integrating Russian satellite data information resources with the European INFEO and Global network of Earth Observation information systems.