Roskosmos State Corporation continues operational monitoring of emergency situations around the world by means of the Russian orbital grouping. In the period from December 9 to December 16, 2021, the following emergencies were monitored at the requests of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia:
- Search for a missing fishing vessel on Sakhalin;
- Selection of archival data of remote sensing of the Earth in the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
In the framework of the international charter’s activities on space and large catastrophes during the reporting period, flood monitoring was carried out in Micronesia. On the basis of media reports on natural and man-made catastrophes around the world, the space survey of the following events was planned:
- Flood monitoring in Spain;
- Monitoring of volcanic eruption in Indonesia;
- Iceboller monitoring in Antarctica;
- Monitoring the consequences of the passage passage in the USA.
In total, in the reporting period, Russian data from about 33 thousand square meters in the amount of about 33 thousand square meters was transferred to the EMERCOM of Russia. km (15 shooting routes without taking into account cloud routes and routes passing in areas of interest of several applications at the same time). In addition, according to applications, headed by searching in the media news reports on natural and man-made catastrophes around the world, Russian data was obtained in the amount of about 26 thousand square meters. km (6 shooting routes excluding cloud routes and routes passing in areas of interest of several applications at the same time).
In the international charter on space and large catastrophes during the reporting period, Russian data of the remote sensing of the Earth in the amount of about 55 thousand square meters was transferred. km (22 shooting routes without taking into account cloud routes and routes passing in areas of interest of several applications at the same time).
Roskosmos State Corporation supports operational 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.
The company “Russian Space Systems” is the head organization of Roskosmos State Corporation on the reception systems, processing and disseminating remote sensing information. The Scientific Center for Earth’s Operational Monitoring Performs the functions of the ground complex planning, receiving, processing and distributing space information from Russian spacecraft.