rootbrowseIAC-14B1session 55. Earth Observation Applications and Economic BenefitsPapers1. 42 countries expected to have launched an Earth observation satellite by 20222. State-wide GIS for Karnataka - K-GIS benefits from EO Images and GIS Services3. burn area delineation via single image polarimetric synthetic aperture radar backscatter classification4. cosmo-skymed data utilization and applications5. Earth Observation Application for Typhoon Yolanda Response in the Asian Development Bank6. Economic Benefits expected from Earth Observation Applications. The case of the EU FP7 ITACA project7. exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles to map out water availability, combat illegal mining and for precision agriculture in ghana8. High-Resolution Super-Multitemporal Monitoring: Two-Day Time Series for Precision Agriculture Applications9. WorldDEM™ - the New Standard of Global Elevation Models10. High resolution InSAR monitoring of high risk geohazards sites.11. Earth Observation: Accurate Prediction of the Severe 2012 Floods in Nigeria using Special Seasonal Weather Outlook Models12. Ensuring the ecological safety of transportation of energy carriers on the main pipelines (mp) on the basis of Aerospace monitoring