Tasks and results of asteroid research in the ISON project

The initiative ISON project was started in 2004 with the support of grants. Within the framework of the project, an international cooperation of observatories for asteroid observations was arranged. In particular, new telescopes with an aperture of 40-50 cm were produced, as well as several existing telescopes with an aperture of 60 cm - 2.6 m were upgraded or equipped with CCD cameras and filter wheels. The researches are carried out in three main directions -- the development of equipment and methods of asteroid surveys with small wide-angle telescopes, follow ups of objects detected by the Chinese asteroid survey CNEOST, regular campaigns of photometric observations. Obtaining a large massif of light curves for hundreds of NEA allowed us to take part in a number of pioneering theoretical and observational works.