Russia launches Earth image portal

The Russian Aerospace Authority Roscosmos has just launched an Earth image portal, free to use with state organizations, but to collect high-resolution images with ordinary users .

According to Russian tech news site CNews.ru , Roscosmos announced to use Geoportal Geographic Information Portal to allow users to access images of the Earth in particular and the universe in general. Its Internet address is http://geoportal.ntsomz.ru/.

On this portal, Roscosmos plans to provide a continuous image of the Earth's surface from artificial satellites " Resource-DK1 ", " Monitor-E ", " Metheor-M1 ", " Ocean-O " , " Resource-O " as well as from other foreign artificial satellites. On the site there is also a part of the photos obtained from the purchase of scientific data from NASA.

Geoportal allows natural and legal entities to access information sources of unified geographic data banks and ensure quick search according to the catalog of unified remote sensing information, calculate coordinate systems and distances. for selected buildings as well as ordering remote sensing records.

High-resolution pictures will be free only to government agencies. Others are forced to pay for those photos or refer to low-resolution pictures only. According to Nina Novikova, director of Earth Monitoring Science Center, the price of pictures with a resolution of 50-100 meters will be nearly 10 pips (10 Russian coins, ~ 64 VND) per square kilometer while the pictures The image with a resolution of up to 2 meters costs 150 rubles per square kilometer.

In order for this geographic portal to work with foreign users, Roscosmos standardized it to ISO 15000. The project was co-ordinated by the Russian Space Systems Agency (RCS) and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Research. Accurate Russian equipment established. According to RCS, the project's work belongs to the category of Scientific Research and Experimental Design. The opening of this portal costs more than 10 million rubles (~ 6,378 billion VND).

In the early days of its opening, this geographic portal was constantly standing and if it operated, it did not allow the full use of the function. RCS said the site's operating interruption was due to a larger number of visitors than expected. RCS said it will quickly move the site to the cloud of RCS. RCS has recently announced the creation of this cloud. In addition, it is also expected that the site will operate under another domain name, including the .РФ domain name (RF - Rossiskaya Federatia - Russian Federation).

Regarding the advantages of the Roscosmos geographic portal compared to Google Maps, RCS CEO (cum General Engineer of GLONASS - Russia's global positioning satellite system) Iuri Urlichich said on the portal This news, information will be updated daily while on Google Maps, sometimes the whole year is not updated. Google Maps offers free photos, in which some areas reach a resolution of 20 meters or less than 1 inch (2.54 cm). For example, pictures of Moscow can be viewed at a resolution of 20 meters, Paris at 10 meters; Berlin at 5 meters. Images of small Russian cities on Google Maps usually have a resolution of 50 meters.