Popov Mykhailo Oleksiovych - Corresponding Member of the NASU, doctor of technical sciences, professor is an acting head of department. .

The staff consists of 14 collaborates among those 2 doctors and 4 candidates of sciences.

The principal directions in the investigations:

• • · Elaboration of scientific-methodical grounds for the applications of geoinformation technologies in the remote sensing of the Earth;
  • С· Generation of the algorithms, procedures, and technologies of the processing and automatic interpretation for the imaging (iconic) information to solve the thematic remote sensing problems;
  • · Data - and hardware for the remote sensing experiments;
  • · Scientific justification and harmonization of the conceptual and standard basis into the remote sensing branch.