Terra Tera (the subsidiary of the Russian Space Systems Holding Company is included in the Roskosmos State Corporation) and the Research and Design Engineering Institute of Informatization, Automation and Communication on Railway Transport (NIIAS, subsidiary of Russian Railways) jointly create monitoring technology Using technical means of remote sensing of the Earth and unmanned aviation systems by order of Russian Railways.
Information monitoring technology is developed to control construction work on the creation of railway infrastructure at the facilities of the Eastern Polygon. It provides processing of the shooting of construction objects on the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian highways from the space apparatus of remote sensing of the Earth and unmanned vehicles.
The project will allow to obtain objective information about the timing, volumes, construction activity on each site and as a whole on the project in the “one window” mode. This year, construction work was carried out by more than 200 objects throughout the Eastern Polygon. Combining satellite shooting and shooting from drones in one information product allows you to increase the detail and creates additional automated control capabilities.
On the basis of a stereon from satellites and unmanned aviation systems, it is possible to calculate the volumes of earthworks produced, for example, the volume of embankments and ground removal during the construction of new railway tracks. Algorithms are being developed that will allow to determine the stage of laying a rail lattice, shooting transfers and much more.
Until 2024, inclusive Railways plans to perform the construction of 1.3 thousand additional main paths at the facilities of the Eastern Polygon, to build 28 and reconstruct 5 connectors, reconstruct 24 stations. It is also planned to carry out the construction of the SKTO-Smolyanino section bypass, electrify the Volcology region – Komsomolsk-Sorting – Vanino and to enhance the devices of traction power supply on the Transsib and Bama sites.
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2021, an agreement was concluded on cooperation between the state corporation “Roscosmos” and Russian Railways, designed to contribute to the application and technologies of the rocket and space industry at the railway transport facilities, including for the design and construction of infrastructure.