ON THE CONCEPT OF NORMATIVE EVALUATION OF COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF GLONASS APPLICATION IN COASTAL REGIONS
Russia promotes the application of GLONASS satellite information in regional economies. In three regions, the system has been already introduced and is widely used, 21 more regions are implementing the system. Experts believe that this process will take from 3 to 5 years. The introduction and integrated use of GLONASS pose a number of organisational and economic problems for regional administrations. One of such problems is the evaluation of economic effect of GLONASS implementation in the region. Economics has developed a large number of methodological approaches to the calculation of such effects in different fields of satellite information application: Earth's remote probing, crop yield forecasts, forestry, water industry and agricultural monitoring, etc. However, the research shows that the attempts to perform a calculation for various fields of satellite information application at regional level prove the existing approaches to be inefficient due to the difficulties in obtaining initial data. To this effect, the authors developed a normative methodical approach to calculation of the effect of integrated GLONASS application. This approach is meant to fill the existing gap and makes it possible to evaluate the economic effect of integrated GLONASS application for different fields.