Geoinformatics in infrastructural support of the digital economy

Abstract

Geoinformatics as one of the information technologies that ensures the circulation of spatial data has long been ready for the further migration of its products and services to the digital environment. A detailed analysis of the Action Plan for the Information Infrastructure Program of the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation Program in the part related to section 04.03.016 “To create domestic digital platforms for the capturing, processing and dissemination of spatial data and remote sensing satellite data that meet the needs of citizens, business and government”, the de facto spatial data infrastructure (SDI), is given. The Plan of Activities also provides for the creation of the Common (Unified) Electronic Base Map (ersatz of fundamental spatial datasets), the federal spatial data portal (geoportal in international terminology), and the implementation of the “Digital Earth” from space project. The scientific GIS community, including the academic, will not remain aloof from the solution of the set tasks, in turn expecting from full-scale implementation of SDI of the Russian Federation better digital spatial data and simplification of access to them.