V knige rassmotreny voprosy tematicheskogo deshifrirovaniya sputnikovykh snimkov lesnykh territoriy na primere issledovaniya taezhnykh lesov evropeyskogo severa Rossii. Proveden analiz deshifrovochnykh priznakov sputnikovykh snimkov i osnovnykh taksatsionnykh pokazateley lesnykh drevostoev, ustanovleny ikh vzaimosvyazi. Issledovaniya provedeny dlya obzornykh i detal'nykh snimkov lesnykh territoriy. Rassmotreny voprosy integratsii algoritmov tematicheskoy obrabotki snimkov i geoinformatsionnykh sistem, prilozheniya predstavlennykh metodik dlya resheniya prakticheskikh zadach.