2004 , Volume 9, Special issue, p.50-62

Our Digital Library was devised and is functioning in on-line mode as a fully interoperable system. INFEO users have no problems in the access to Digital Library as well as the latter easily exchanges data with the INFEO system. The principle of distributed data processing gains an ever-growing importance for satellite monitoring. Thus, the building of Digital Library of Space Research Institute as infrastructure of an access system to satellite data, which is received and processed at different ground stations, begins by setting up of a main server. At the same time, Russian remote users get access through the Internet to satellite data obtained by INFEO monitoring centers. Further development of Digital Library as infrastructure of Remote Sensing satellite data electronic archives implies the introduction of automatic user-oriented information selection as a result of enhanced information models of electronic collections coupled to upgraded techniques of user interaction with the archive information system. We have undertaken critical assessment of existing techniques of user interaction with archive information system.