Roskosmos State Corporation continues operational monitoring of emergency situations in the Russian Federation by means of the Russian orbital grouping. The Scientific Center for Operational Monitoring Earth of the Company “Russian Space Systems” is the operator of Russian space systems of remote sensing of the Earth.
It provides the functioning and targeted use of the orbital grouping by implementing the full technological cycle on planning the information resource of spacecraft and ground infrastructure, reception, registration, primary and standard processing of information from Russian and foreign satellites, maintaining a single catalog and the Roskosmos data archive for purposes in order to providing end users with data and their products.
From May 20 to May 27, 2021, the following emergencies were monitored at the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia:
- Karst dips in the Chelyabinsk region, Perm Territory and Nizhny Novgorod region;
- Settlement in the Khabarovsk Territory;
- Floods on the Volga-Kamsky Cascade;
- The effects of spill petroleum products in the Republic of Komi, NAO and Krasnoyarsk Territory;
- Farwing environment in the Republic of Sakha;
- fire hazardous furnishings in the Republic of Sakha;
- fires in the Tyumen region;
- Highway in the Republic of Khakassia, Amur region and Krasnoyarsk Territory.
In the interests of the International Charter on Space and large catastrophes, monitoring the consequences of the earthquake in the PRC and Hurricane in India. 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 effects of hurricane in India;
- monitoring of fires in the Irkutsk region;
- Monitoring of flooding in the Krasnoyarsk Territory;
- Monitoring of natural fires in Greece;
- Monitoring of volcano eruption in Congo;
- Monitoring the effects of spill products in the Krasnodar Territory.
In connection with the development of a flood situation in the Amur region on May 21, 2021, Charter is activated. As of May 27, foreign data of the remote sensing of the Earth of about 1.7 million square kilometers (128 routes) was transferred to the EMERCOM of Russia. In addition, active monitoring of these areas of sublopulations by Russian satellites are carried out.