Russian remote sensing satellites of land continue to conduct operational monitoring of emergency situations. From March 25 to April 1, 2021, data in the amount of more than 1.7 million square kilometers were transferred to the Ministry of the Russian Federation for civil defense, emergency situations and elimination of the effects of natural disasters.
From March 25 to April 1, 2021, the following emergencies were monitored at the requests of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia:
- Ice crossings in several regions of the Russian Federation;
- Karst dips in the Chelyabinsk region, Perm region and the Nizhny Novgorod region;
- Threats of flooding in the Krasnoyarsk Territory;
- The situation in the republics of Buryatia and Tyva, as well as in the Irkutsk and Magadan regions;
- the threat of flooding in Primorsky Krai;
- flooding in Oryol and Lipetsk regions;
- consequences Lavina’s gathering in the Republic of Dagestan;
- Wheel of the helicopter in the Kaliningrad region;
- ice furnishings in the Jewish JSC;
- Threat of flooding in the Krasnodar Territory, Bashkortostan, Udmurtia and Khakassia, as well as the Volgograd, Kostroma, Penza, Samara, Sverdlovsk, Tver and Tyumen regions.
As part of the activities of the International Charter on Space and large catastrophes, the monitoring of emergency situations was not carried out at the specified period. 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 the volcanic eruption in Iceland;
- monitoring of the coastline pollution in Israel;
- Monitoring of floods in Australia;
- Monitoring the consequences of the accident on the railway tracks in Egypt;
- monitoring the effects of explosion on the refinery in Indonesia.
Roscosmos State Corporation and Russian Space Systems support operational interaction with the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for timely response to the emergence of a flood and fire-hazardous situation and the implementation of space monitoring of the affected territories.