gathers, analyzes and generalizes requests of satellite image users;

processes, archives and distributes remote sensing (RS) data and satellite information;

elaborates and introduces new technologies of the application of aerospace information;

does digital mapping based on the GIS/RS technologies;

performs on-line RS monitoring of the environment;

works out the normative and methodical documents in the field of remote sensing and environmental monitoring;

analyzes the state of aeorospace information usage, develops new methods of its implementation in all fields of the economy;

predicts and explores mineral deposits with RS methods, researches the Earth's crust, its tectonics and geodynamics;

researches the environment, such as water pollution and melioration systems efiiciency investigation, vegetation monitoring etc. ;

teaches and raises the level of proficient skills in the field of remote sensing;