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Center for space monitoring and geoinformation technologies to be created in Uzbekistan

The Center will be able to provide services related to the space industry, not only to the state, but also to individuals and legal entities.

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In the system of the Agency for Space Research and Technology under the Cabinet of Ministers, the Center for Space Monitoring and Geoinformation Technologies is being created, follows from a government decree.

The Center is being created to carry out space monitoring and provide government agencies with space images, as well as to establish the effective use of the results of space activities in the socio-economic, scientific fields, as well as in the field of defense and security.

The activities of the Center will be carried out in the following areas:

• remote sensing of the Earth with the help of satellite devices, reception, storage, processing and transmission of data;
• provision of services in the space industry;
• implementation of scientific and innovative activities in this area in order to widely attract scientific and innovative technologies to the space sector;
• assistance in improving the efficiency of economic sectors, the sphere of defense and security, the socio-economic activities of the regions using space and geoinformation technologies, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles.

In addition, the Center will have the right to provide state bodies and organizations, business associations, local executive authorities, individuals and legal entities with space monitoring data obtained by remote sensing of the Earth through satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles and provide other services related to the space industry.

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