Mission

Research Lines and Major Tasks of GC RAS:

• study of geophysical fields and processes in various spheres of the Earth, including the hydrosphere, ionosphere, near-Earth space and solar-terrestrial relations;
• develop new approaches to processing large volumes of complex geophysical data based on geographic information systems (GIS) technologies and methods of fuzzy logic and fuzzy mathematics;
• carrying out magnetic observations and establish the Russian segment of INTERMAGNET;
• establish five new INTERMAGNET observatories in Russia as joint observatories of GC RAS ​​and regional institutes;
• carry out mobile magnetic observations;
• develop a National INTERMAGNET Geomagnetic Information Node in GC RAS;
• fundamental and applied research in geoinformatics, development of geological and geophysical applications of artificial intelligence methods and geoinformation systems;
• establish a multilevel and multi-functional geographic information system on the territory of Russia and CIS;
• providing information for research of DES RAS, maintenance of the Russian World Data Centers for Solid Earth Physics and Solar-Terrestrial Physics; establishment, maintenance and development of integral and distributed databases, Internet resources and knowledge bases in geophysics, geology, space physics and other Earth sciences;
• study of modern crustal movements and simulation of the stress-strain state for the purposes of geoecology, geodynamics and natural risk assessment;
• development of new methods of electronic publications.