SPACE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS

The importance of digitization of production processes in agriculture has been substantiated. The necessity of integrating state, scientific and educational institutions into the economic system through the use of aerospace information technologies is shown. With the help of the historical scientific research method, the main stages of the development of domestic remote sensing of the Earth (RSD) are reflected in order to optimize production processes in agriculture. A comparative analysis of the use of space and unmanned aircraft systems (drones). Modern trends in the development of geospatial technologies have been identified, namely: precision farming, unmanned technologies, the Internet of things, the use of artificial intelligence in data analysis and agroscouting. It has been established that for efficient economic activities agricultural producers can apply space technologies in the following areas of management: land management, soil science, agricultural hydrology, prevention of natural disasters and catastrophes, precision farming, telematics. It was determined that the space monitoring of the Earth allows the solution of environmental, natural resourceand economic tasks that determine the main directions of functioning of the state policy in the field of sustainable development of the agrarian sector of the economy. One of the subjects of the implementation of such tasks is the Zhytomyr National Agroecological University - a unique institution of the Polissyaregion of Ukraine. Naturally, on the basis of the university, together with the National Center for Control and Testing of Space Facilities of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, the Regional Space Center«Polissya»was established, which includes a point for receiving and processing remote sensing data. The main tasks of the «Polissya»Center are listed in the form of three interrelated components: educational, scientific and applied. The expediency of creation of regional space centerstaking into account the climatic and natural features is proved on the example of the PolissyaCenter for scientific and practical support of solving certain problems with the further integration of the obtained results into the educational process and popularization of space technologies in agribusiness and ecology.