Control Data Systems Inc and Applied Terravision System Inc (Canada) have signed a letter of intent with the Tyumen Regional Committee for Natural Resources Management under which the companies will prepare a technical and economic program to computerise control and management of local natural resources. According to the Committee, all work carried out by both companies at this stage will be financed by the governments of US and Canada. Control Data has already received $300,000 from the Federal budget for these purposes. According to Gennady Shatalov, chief geophisician of the Tyumen geological centre, at present no one has full information on the quantity and quality of regional resources which substantially hinders their control, processing and export.
