Mobile Remote-Sensing Platforms for Environmental Monitoring

Characteristic of series mobile remote-sensing platforms is given. These platforms are used to be as the base for microwave sensors under the organization of the monitoring of environmental objects. The structure of monitoring system synthesis is proposed with functions of decision making concerning the optimization of the data collection and processing. Technology of geo-ecological information-modelling system (GIMS-technology) synthesis is described. The questions are discussed related to the GIMS-technology use for the solution of tasks from the hydrology including a mapping the soil moisture and detection of critical situations in hydrological processes. It is shown that GIMS-technology makes more wide the GIS functions and makes easier the solution of task when it is needed to reconstruct two-dimensional distribution of the monitoring object characteristics basing on the data delivered by monitoring system irregularly at the time and fragmentary in the space. Specific characteristics of the GIMS-technology are marked and perspectives of its development are described.