The Center for Receiving and Processing Earth Remote Sensing Data of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia is scheduled to be opened in the village of Ugolnye Kopi of the Anadyrsky district of Chukotka in 2024. The center will be the seventh in Russia and the first in the eastern part of the Russian Arctic, goarctic.ru reports.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and Roscosmos are jointly engaged in the creation of the Earth Space Monitoring Center. Building has already begun on the territory of fire and rescue unit No. 6. In the future, the center will be equipped with modern machinery.
"The station will operate in automatic mode. It will receive signals from the satellite, process and transmit data to the information system. One operator will monitor the equipment. The work of the center will give us more accurate coverage. For example, we will be able to track tundra and natural fires, as well as climate changes in general," Lenar Sharafeev, acting head of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Chukotka Autonomous District, commented on the event.
To date, there are already six centers for receiving and processing space information in Russia. They are located in Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok, Vologda, and only two of them are in the Arctic zone: in Murmansk and Dudinka. The Chukchi center will become the easternmost.
After its opening, space surveillance will be organized throughout the Russian Arctic from west to east. In real time, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia will be able to monitor potential risks on its territory. Work on the development of the space monitoring system is carried out under the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025. One of its directions is the expansion of the network of centers for receiving and processing space information on the basis of Crisis Management Centers of the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.
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