The government talks about lifting the ban on the introduction of data of remote sensing of the Earth. Restrictions no longer for recordings made in Russia and abroad.
The decree prepared by the Ministry of defense in the performance range of the orders of the President of Russia. At the moment the images acquired with foreign and spacecraft, not subject to secrecy, but in General are of private nature, which does not allow to use them in various sectors of the Russian economy.
"Decisions would remove limitations on the acquisition, implementation and provision of remote sensing data of Land purchased with foreign spacecraft and Russian spacecraft civil purposes, all the territory of the Russian Federation", - is told on the website of the government of the Russian Federation.
Earlier Days.Ru wrote that the Ministry of defence was going to legalize satellite images of the Russian countryside high resolution. It is expected that similar detailed maps will be used to improve the quality of life of Russian citizens.
The Ministry of defense blocked the declassification detailed satellite imagery depict it for security reasons. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin has tabled a question about the use of these images for private entities, such as Google, publish images of similar resolution in the public domain.