The operator of Russian space means of remote sensing of the land of the state corporation Roscosmos continues operational monitoring of emergency situations in the territory of the Russian Federation by means of the Russian orbital group.
From April 1 to April 8, 2021, the following emergencies were monitored at the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia:
- Karst dips in the Chelyabinsk region, Perm region and the Nizhny Novgorod region;
- The situation in the republics of Buryatia and Tyva, as well as in the Irkutsk and Magadan regions;
- the threat of flooding in the Primorsky region;
- flooding in Oryol and Lipetsk regions;
- Wheel of the helicopter in the Kaliningrad region;
- ice settings in the Jewish JSC;
- Podpolopping in the Krasnodar Territory, Republics of Bashkortostan, Udmurtia and Khakassia, as well as the Volgograd, Kostroma, Penza, Samara, Sverdlovsk, Tver and Tyumen regions;
- flooding in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
As part of the activities of the International Charter on Space and major catastrophes, the space photography of the consequences of flooding and landslide in Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste was planned. On the basis of media reports on natural and man-made catastrophes around the world, the space survey of the following events was planned:
- monitoring of volcano eruption in Iceland;
- monitoring of the consequences of the accident on the railway paths in Egypt;
- monitoring of flooding in the Irkutsk region;
- monitoring of flooding in Tverskaya, Ryazan and Kaluga regions;
- Monitoring of natural fires in the SFO and DVFO.
In just the reporting period, Russian data of the remote sensing of the Earth in the amount of about 1.2 million square kilometers (134 shooting routes are not taking into account cloud routes and routes passing by the areas of interest of several applications at the same time) were transferred to the EMERCOM of Russia. The international charter on space and large catastrophes transmitted data in the amount of about 45 thousand square kilometers (8 shooting routes without taking into account cloud routes and routes passing in areas of interest of several applications simultaneously).
Roscosmos State Corporation supports prompt interaction with the EMERCOM of Russia for timely response to the occurrence of a flood and fire-hazardous situation and the implementation of space monitoring of the affected territories.