Purpose: To fi nd an approach to substantiation of the rational architecture of information interaction of the Earth Remote Sensing Data Processing System. Materials and methods: When conducting research in the fi eld of distributed remote sensing data processing as part of the design of a remote sensing data processing system, it seems necessary to create some digital prototype of it. At the fi rst stage of creating such a “digital double”, the architecture of the information interaction of upper-level elements (services, modules, etc.) should be justifi ed in order to ensure effective and consistent application of the system software components. Results: The article proposes an approach to justifying and choosing the architecture of a software system, which is based on production models of decision maker preferences for describing simple and complex reference situations of the survey, processing of knowledge data using methods of the theory of fuzzy measures and theory of experimental design and checking statements Decision maker for consistency. Conclusions: The proposed approach will signifi cantly increase the degree of formalization and validity of the selection process, which as a result provides the opportunity to increase its automation level.