Information technologies for environmental monitoring and nature-use problems

In the report we discuss the main issues of information and analytical supporting of environmental monitoring tasks, such as storage, systematization and operative analysis of the vast volumes of monitoring data, geological and ecological researching, decisions acceptance for situational management. We would like to present our techniques and home-brewed software packages providing technological solution of these problems. The approach is based on integrated analysis of data about geological or ecological situation/object/process from different sensing levels of the Earth. Presented technologies obtain all steps of data processing and presentation: from data acquisition, georeferencing, data integrity and quality assurance, through multi-level analysis to pre-print of hard-copies of published maps or decision-making support systems for mineral exploitation and environmental protection management - and combine all tools of information technologies: Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), Internet-based distributed computing framework, analytical procedures including mathematical and heuristic algorithms and, of course, Geographical Information Systems (GIS).