• Geographical Information systems (GIS) and spatial data infrastructures (SDI): spatial data processing, visualizing (mapping) and developing toolsets of their maintenance and sharing; Geospatial analytics: 
• Earth observation: space-borne and air-born remote sensing for: 
  • spatial planning and landscape stability assessment:  assessing territories from positions of their suitability for site planning with civic, industrial and recreation purposes 
  • Land cover and land use classification for assessing the status and trends of land use in administrative units or protected areas
  • Monitoring and assessment of the state of agricultural lands: productivity of natural pastures, droughts, erosion, wetlands etc. 
  • Monitoring and assessment of urban heat Islands & thermal comfort
  • Monitoring and assessment of the state of the waterbodies (lakes, reservoirs).
  • Monitoring and assessment of the state of the municipal landfills.
• Proximal VIS-NIR spectroscopy for indicating spectral characteristics of natural (plants, water, soil minerals, etc.) & anthropogenic materials

List of professional equipment

• Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs
  • DJI MATRICE 200 V2 with Zenmuse XT S thermal camera, designed for obtaining thermal images of the study area.
  • eBee Ag fixed-wing drone with Parrot Sequoia multispectral camera, designed for crop scouting, yield estimation and vegetation monitoring.
  • DJI Mavic 2 pro, designed for obtaining images of the study area in the visible range.
• Garmin Oregon 650 GPS, designed for orientation, coordinate registration and spatial measurements.
• Geodetic GNSS Receiver (high-precision receiver), designed for precise positioning and producing a database of ground control points 
• Dual laser infrared thermometer, designed for temperature measurement of various objects and different types of surface.
• Apogee MC-100 Chlorophyll Meter, designed for measurement the chlorophyll content of leaves without damaging them.
• TR-2L Thermochron, designed to record air temperature and provide a continuous series of temperature data.
• NaturaSpec portable spectroradiometer, designed for the study of spectral features of natural and technogenic objects in the environment under field conditions.
• GeoServer: a repository for storing spatial data