Specialists of RIPI ensured support, deployment and commissioning of a mobile receiving and transmitting complex (MRTC) at the facility of the EMERCOM of Russia in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

On April 6, Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft has delivered a mobile receiving complex (MRTC) to Yakutsk on the territory of EMERCOM Main Office for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

The joint group of RIPI specialists and the National Crisis Management Center of EMERCOM of Russia ensure the operation of the MRTC for monitoring flood and forest fires from space in Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts.

During the flood period, almost 500 settlements have been identified as a risk zone of waterlogging in case of local rivers overflow during active snowmelt. During the fire-hazardous seasons, more than 490 territories in two federal districts have been identified for monitoring using space technology.

Alexander Lekomtsev, interim Director of the National Center for Crisis Management Main Office:

- Mobile complex for satellite communication was delivered to Yakutsk. It will be used to receive satellite data covering vast territories of the Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts. This will allow to receive more detailed data and forecast possible emergency situations related to forest fire and floods more reliably.

At the meeting on Measures for Prevention and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters in the regions of the Russian Federation, held on April, 27 by video conference with Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and Yevgeny Zinichev, Minister of Emergency Situations, Alexander Nikolaev, Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia):

- I would like to thank EMERCOM for the help that they assisted. Today, in Yakutia we have a mobile station for receiving and transmitting satellite data from Roscosmos. Moreover, thanks to this station, we can accurately report that the flood in Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) began on April, 27. In both Vitim and Peleduya regions, we already see active movements and the beginning of ice drifting on Lena River that is more than ten days earlier than planned. The situation is tense, but the task forces are deployed, everyone is in place. I am sure that together with the EMERCOM we can handle it. 

Vladimir Romashkin, Head of the Scientific and Technical Complex of JSC RIPI:

- RIPI specialists ensure the functioning of the equipment of MRTC in Yakutia together with the calculations of the EMERCOM reception efficiency does not exceed 30 hours from the moment of application for the survey. At present, the complex has already provided reception and processing of more than 60 communication sessions with “Kanopus-V” and more than 30 - with foreign satellites.

MRTC application in Yakutsk is carried out according to the Agreement between the Roscosmos State Corporation and EMERCOM of Russia in the field of space activities. The stationary space data reception complexes developed at RIPI were previously placed at the EMERCOM of Russia facilities in Murmansk and Dudinka. 

RIPI Press Service,
prepared by using information 
from press-service of EMERCOM
and web-site of President of the Russian Federation