Zhassulan Smanov is a PhD student of the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he graduated from the Bachelor's Degree of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in the specialty "Geography", and in 2015 - the master's degree. Work Experience, from June 15, 2015 to May 12, 2023, he worked as a junior researcher in the department of melioration of saline soils at the Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry. Currently, he is a leading specialist in Space Technologies and Remote Sensing Center of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Participation in research in recent scientific projects: 1. Monitor the content of heavy metals and organic pollutants in the irrigated soils using GIS and development ways to increase the protective properties of soil in relation polluters. 2. Technology development of local monitoring salinization of irrigated soils and its approval by the example Arys-Turkestan massif of irrigation. 3. The problem of irrigated saline soils of Turkestan region and their solution by using innovative technology to increase soil fertility and productivity of agricultural crops. 4. Study of desertification process of the modern delta of Ili River by satellite images. 5. Scientific-technological provision of preservation and restoration of fertility of agricultural lands.