- observation of numerous regions during flood period;
- reserach on opportunities of detecting areas of large floodings
using meteorological satellite data;
- detection of pollution areas;
- testing techniques of automatic simultaneous monitoring of multiple regions
;
- organization of instant access to acquired data for the Internet
users.
Observation period:
1998: 12 March-31 May.
1997: 15 March-31 May.
1996: 22 March-31 May.
Monitoring is performed using data from NOAA-12 and NOAA-14 polar
orbiting satellites.
The project is being developed by the Space Monitoring Information
Support laboratory (SMIS), Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI
RAN).
