Monitoring of emergencies continues 18 March

Russian Earth remote sensing satellites continue to monitor emergency situations. From 11 to 18 March 2021, more than 714 thousand square kilometers of data were transferred to the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of the Consequences of Natural Disasters.

During the reporting period, the following emergencies were monitored at the request of the Russian Emergencies Ministry:

  • Ice crossings in several regions of the Russian Federation;
  • karst sinkholes in the Chelyabinsk Region, Perm Territory and Nizhny Novgorod Region;
  • the consequences of derailment of a train in the Khabarovsk Territory;
  • the threat of flooding in the Krasnoyarsk Territory;
  • the consequences of a gas pipeline break in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug;
  • the consequences of an oil pipeline break in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug;
  • the situation in the Republic of Buryatia, Irkutsk and Magadan regions.

Within the framework of the activities of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, monitoring of emergencies was not carried out during the specified period. Based on media reports on natural and man-made disasters around the world, satellite imagery of volcanic eruptions in Indonesia and Guatemala was planned.

The Roscosmos State Corporation and the Russian Space Systems Company maintain operational cooperation with the Russian Emergencies Ministry for timely response to flood and fire hazard situations and for space monitoring of the affected areas.

/Media reports.