Under rapid economic growth, one of the challenges
faced by Kazakhstan’s government bodies and economic entities is to
ensure
that production and technological processes are safe for society and
the environment and consequently that emergencies are detected early
and prevented.
International experience has proven that this task can be only solved
effectively when the aerospace technology of monitoring spatially-spread
natural and production facilities is used to ensure the timely prediction
of and diagnosis of the development of environmental disasters.
As a recognised leader in adopting innovative technologies in the CIS,
Kazakhstan has paid due attention to the need to develop remote sensing
technologies. In 2003, the Kazakh Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry
initiated the creation of the KAZGEOCOSMOS company, which specialises
in solving geological, environmental and geodesic challenges, using
space and aerial surveys of land and water surfaces.
In a short period of time the company’s management succeeded
in building a highly-professional team, setting up a modern technical
base and taking the company to leading positions in the sphere of employing
aerospace methods.
Today, we ensure the regular, multi-resolution space survey of the
entire territory of Kazakhstan and neighbouring countries. Since the
Caspian region draws particular attention, Atyrau was chosen as the
location of a station to receive satellite information. The Canadian
Space Agency
and the RADARSAT International company have certified our station.
It receives data from Indian, US, Canadian and Russian satellites.
In late 2006, KAZGEOCOSMOS started the industrial exploitation of a
“flying” laboratory. It is an aircraft, which is equipped with a high-precision
digital aerial camera (Austrian-made) Vexcel UltraCam-X and a hyperspectral
imager (Canadian-made) CASI-1500, which makes it possible to carry
out research with
higher precision and efficiency.
The comprehensive interpretation of earth remote sensing data and ground
survey results is carried out at the Earth Remote Sensing Data Processing
Centre in Almaty, which is equipped with up-to-date equipment and software.
The efficiency and high level of objectivity of the data obtained make
it possible to improve the safety and economic feasibility of projects
to prospect, develop and transport natural resources, build power lines,
railways and roads and ensure the diagnosis and prediction of emergencies.
An important advantage of KAZGEOCOSMOS services is that we offer survey
results integrated into geoinformation systems (GIS) that we develop
and update to meet the specific needs of our clients’ activities.
The high levels of professionalism of our staff members, modern information
technologies and the reliable system to control results are the main
components of KAZGEOCOSMOS’s quality policy. Its effectiveness is proven
by the “To the 21st Century with Universal Quality” national award
for the best
management system that our company received in 2006. We are currently
completing the procedure of complying with the ISO-9000 management
system standards.
KAZGEOCOSMOS has an active part in drafting and implementing the state
programme to develop the space industry in Kazakhstan, which pays particular
attention to developing earth remote sensing systems.
Our main clients are the Kazakh Education and Science Ministry, the
Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s Geology and Mining Committee,
the Environmental Protection Ministry, the KazMunayGaz national oil
and gas company and its subsidiaries KazMunayGaz Exploration & Production
and KazTransOil, the Kazakhtelecom company and many other major and
medium-sized Kazakh enterprises.
KAZGEOCOSMOS’s main partners are Canada’s RADARSAT International Inc.
and Russia’s ScanEx Engineering and Technology Centre, Astrozond, the
GeoSystems Scientific Research Institute, GeoCosmos and GEOLIDAR. We
also cooperate with Kazakh establishments such as the Education and
Science Ministry’s Information and Management Institute, the Mathematics
Institute and the Geological and Geographical Research Institute, the
Kazakh Applied Ecology Agency, the Munayshy public fund and many others.
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