Geographic information systems (GIS) are systems for the keeping and processing of geospatial data. The earth's surface remote sensing methods allow to get relevant and reliable information for GIS development.

• spatial data acquisition;
• spatial data processing;
• terrain's surface monitoring;
• forecasting the possible development of the current situation.

Various researches showed that approximately 80% of all the information we use is distributed in space and has a spatial referencing. Today GIS technologies allow specialists to work with vector and raster data, make complex calculations, visualize results of the analysis.

• desktop;
• web – for online-usage;
• corporate – for usage within one company;
• mobile – for smartphones and tablets;
• spatial data banks (databases);
• GIS for the government.

GIS is widely used by state bodies, oil and gas producing companies, agricultural and forestry companies, ecological organizations, transport organizations, cartographic bureaus.