Remote Sensing Center of Mongolia - Brief Outlook
Dr. Saandar . M
Remote Sensing Center
State Department of Geoesy and Cartographyof the MPR
210644, Ikh Toirong 4
Ulaanbaatar 44
Mongolia
Tel : 29687
1. history And Main Activities
A newest and most dynamically developing office of the state Department of Geodesy and Cartography of the MPR – the Remote Sensing Center (RSCM) was established in 1980 on commercial basis to meet growing needs of agriculture, geology, water resources, forestry, urban and rural development as well as non-renewable natural resources’ management with respect to remote sensing techniques and development of geo-based information system.
The main activities of RSCM include acquisition, data banking , preprocessing and processing of high-resolution remote sensing data from three levels, such as:
- satellite;
- airborne;
- ground-based stationary and mobile systems
Meeting the needs of dramatically growing user community in end-products geo-based data and using analog instrumentation and photographic facilities the RSCM is providing them with photo-and thematic maps, contact prints, enlargements and mosaics.
The RSCM has cooperation agreements with about 15-20 organizations and institutions and distributes remote sensing products for 40-60 end-users.
The RSCM improves and expends its services based on continuous application-oriented research and expands its services based on continuous application-oriented research and development ( R & D).
The main goal of R & D is to achieve reliable and and costeffective remote sensing techniques and establishment of integrated GIS (IGIS) for geology, forestry, agriculture, especially on the field of crop status assessment and monitoring, vegetation damage detection, soil erosion and water-resources preservation applications, etc.
These are not the full list of the RSCMs tasks to give a valuable impact on the development of Mongolia.
