Monitoring-SG program to provide qualitatively new information from space

Thanks to the program on the development of space and ground-based facilities for the remote sensing of the Earth (Monitoring-SG) Belarusian and Russian scientists will be able to obtain qualitatively new information from space, Sergei Korenyako, executive director of the program and head of the department of the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences, told media on 29 October, BelTA has learnt.

The new program of the Belarus-Russia Union State was approved in October 2013. “To date work is underway to start this program,” Sergei Korenyako said.

According to him, Monitoring-SG is designed to address the problems connected with the difficulties in the development of space equipment. The program will make it possible to carry out various tests of space equipment.

“This program is designed to secure the operability of space vehicles for the remote sensing of the Earth and to create new equipment in order to obtain qualitatively new information from space,” Sergei Korenyako noted.

The implementation of the new Union State program will improve the quality of processing the data obtained from space vehicles and increase the speed of data transmission to a particular consumer.

The project includes the development of hardware to examine principal systems, which will be accompanied by real experiments. There are plans to run a sub-program to monitor agricultural crops. a system will be devised as part of the program to control the ripening of agricultural crops using space and airspace information.

The program will be an important stage of R&D cooperation between Belarus and Russia in the creation of promising space vehicles. The two countries are working on a number of issues in the field of obtaining data from the orbital group of satellites in order to prevent natural and man-made disasters, monitor the ecology of the Earth and the efficient use of natural resources, and develop IT-technologies to implement them in practice to the benefit of the specific sectors of the two countries’ economies.