Ecological Systems and Devices Annotation << Back Conditions examined urban ecosystems Gorokhova I.N. The results of analysis of different sources, which cover the investigation of urban soil and other components of urban ecosystem was given. The basin direction of urban soil investigations and probabilities of their studies with using remote information were assigned. The results of review indicates, that urban soil is investigated behind 90`s in Russia and abroad, however ground methods prevails, and remote information usual in researching of other landscape components. In city today distance monitoring development is actual, because of dynamical changing and mixed character of soil cover, when the research was conducted by aerospace photography material decoding and modern geoinformation technologies. Keywords: Urban ecosystem; urban soil; distance methods; aerospace photographs; geoinformation system. Contacts: E-mail: G-Irina@rambler.ru Pp. 10-14.