GEOSCAN International Agency (GIA) was established in 2000 by a consortium of academic institutions and research and production enterprises specializing in aerospace technologies and services, Earth and Space sciences and hydrometeorology. As a result of these strategic partnerships, GIA has complete access to the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Aerospace Enterprises and commands full support from the Ministry of Industry, Science & Technology of the Russian Federation (MIST).

• Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia),
• Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center (Moscow, Russia),
• MYASISHCHEV Design Bureau (Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, Russia),
• POLYOT Research & Production Enterprise (Nizhni Novgorod, Russia),
• Arsenal Design Bureau (St.-Petersburg, Russia),
• State Research Centre of Space Hydrometeorology "Planet" (Moscow, Russia),
• ROSTOV-MIL Design Bureau (Rostov-Don, Russia),
• Kazakhstan-Russian JV "Aelita" (Almaty, Kazakhstan),
• Russia-ASEAN Cooperation Fund (Moscow, Russia),
• Geoscan (UK) Plc (London, United Kingdom),
• Geoscan Technologies (Moscow, Russia).

Through close working relationship and strategic collaborations with academic institutions and aerospace industries in Russia and other countries, GIA is able to identify new scientific ideas and opportunities and formulate strategies for converting these intellectual properties into viable business propositions. Keeping in line with the best traditions of the Russian scientific community, new ideas are first rigorously tested and proven before introduced in the global market for commercial exploitation.

Geoscan (UK) Plc is a British-Russian Technology Partnership that is responsible for marketing GIA projects in the international markets.

GIA is actively engaged in R&D concerning space science and geophysics. Its main focus is on studies and investigation of large-scale natural disasters and technogenic catastrophes and their effects on the environment. It is engaged in the development of new methods and means for monitoring natural disasters and early detection and forecasting of earthquakes, volcano eruptions and hurricanes using ground, air-borne and space-based platforms.

Significant part of GEOSCAN activity is devoted towards development of GEOSCAN NETWORK - a Rapid Deployment System for Broadband Wireless Communications, based on a High Altitude Platform Station, using Russian made M-55 stratospheric aircraft. Such is the strategic importance of a Rapidly Deployable Emergency Communications System in the current global security network that GEOSCAN NETWORK is included on the agenda of the UK-Russia High Technology Working Group.

Airborne Geophysical Radar System is the latest project to be developed by the GEOSCAN International Agency in collaboration with MYASISHCHEV Design Bureau and POLYOT Research & Production Enterprise. It is a project that involves Electromagnetic Sounding of the Earth on which the following applications can be developed:

• Exploration of mineral resources, prospecting of ore deposits including basic and precious metals;
• Exploration of gas - and oilfields;
• Search , mapping and monitoring of capacity of the sources of fresh water;
• Mapping of underground saline water reservoirs and monitoring of their dynamics;
• Environmental monitoring including intrusions of saline water and investigation of soils salinity, evaluation of geothermal zones, land slides and cracks in the areas of neglected mines, investigation of pipe lines, detection and location of contaminant leaks, rubbish heaps of dangerous industrial wastes, deserted machines, etc.
• Permafrost mapping in the polar regions;
• Mapping of the underground structures such as cavities, tunnels, pipelines; mapping of soil conductivity in the zones of pipelines and electric power lines.

The MIST has placed both projects, Airborne Geophysical Radar System and Geoscan Network, on the list of high priority projects for consideration by the Russian-Chinese Co-operation on Science and Technologies.

GEOSCAN is also involved in some R&D projects currently supported or considered by the International Science and Technology Centre. Some of these projects include:

• Technology and Design Development of Solar Arrays of Amorphous Silicon Based on Thin Polymer Film Deployed by Centrifugal Forces for Communications and Earth Observation Satellites (project #2620);
• Electromagnetic and Plasma Response of the Ionosphere to the Formation Processes of Hurricanes (project #2763);
• Complex Ground Based Geophysical Observations Coordinated With Satellite DEMETER Investigations (project #2990);
• Airborne Micro-Satellite Launch Complex Based on M-55 Stratospheric Aircraft.

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