UNIGEO Consortium supported by ScanEx RDC carries out the contest of geo-projects "Space images—for science and society". The goal of this contest is to make popular the ideas and possibilities of space images and geoportals application in different spheres of human activities: science, education, culture, nature protection, economic activities and civil initiatives.
Contest results will be made public on September 15, 2013 and the winners will be awarded during the 6th International Conference "Earth from Space—The Most Effective Solutions" , which is to be held on October 1-3, 2013.
Since the last conference in 2011 several major events have happened which without doubt gave a new impulse for the development of geoinformational technologies in Russia. All the restrictions concerning usage of aero and satellite imagery were lifted, implementing the principle of “everything that can be seen by a human eye from the space should be open for public access”; the list of instructions of the President of the Russian Federation (dated October 10, 2012, №ПР-2672) in addition to the need of space imagery data introduction envisages evaluation of performance of executives at various levels, depending on how successfully such data is introduced by them; public-private partnership in Russian space industry started to take shape…
More information about the requirements towards projects, contest stages, contest works registration procedure and evaluation criteria are available is the following link.
The 6th International Conference “Earth from Space—The Most Effective Solutions” will take place on October 1-3, 2013 at the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” resort hotel. Key topics of the conference are: nature protection and access to space images and near real-time satellite-based monitoring services from civil society in Russia and abroad. Conference organizers are: ScanEx Research & Development Center, NGO Transparent World. Conference participation requests can be placed by filling in the registration form at the website: conference.scanex.ru.