Less than three months passed since the mosaic of Central Federal District was posted at www.kosmosnimki.ru – the experimental project of ScanEx R&D Center - when a new big coverage was added – a mosaic of the entire Southern Federal District based on IRS satellites archive imagery at 5.8 m resolution. The assortment of the http://shop.kosmosnimki.ru shop has been consequently expanded – seaside vacationers may “purchase” a bit of their favorite beach, mountaineers – the conquered mountain and mountain villagers – a piece of their home valley.

Be reminded that www.kosmosnimki.ru resource is the first Runet geoportal opened, according to the first record in the blog, on February 13, 2007. To date, in addition to the Central and Southern Federal Districts, IRS imagery (5.8 m resolution) mosaics are available for St-Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions, as well as high-resolution coverage based on IKONOS images (80 cm resolution) for Moscow (including Domodedovo airport), St-Petersburg (with Peterhof), Tula, Ryasan, Nizhny Novgorod, Orel, Roston-Upon-Don, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. Over 40% of the Russian sub-regions have been entirely covered with RS imagery, occupying only about 10% of the Russian territory, but where almost half of the country’s population lives. You are most welcome to visit www.kosmosnimki.ru!