Roscosmos continues active and continuous space monitoring of the territory of the Orenburg region, as well as other Russian territories prone to floods and inundations.
All spacecraft of the Russian State remote sensing space system, comprising 5 Kanopus-B, 3 Meteor-M and 1 Kondor-FKA radar observation spacecraft, are involved in space monitoring. In addition, on April 4, at the request of the Russian Federation, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated, allowing for the involvement of up to 50 spacecraft of the international remote sensing satellite constellation of up to 50 optoelectronic and radar sensors for space monitoring of the Orenburg region.
Requests for provision of space data were sent to the following space agencies and foreign operators of commercial Earth remote sensing satellites – Charter participants: CNES (France), CNSA (China), CONAE (Argentina), CSA (Canada), DLR (Germany), UKSA (UK), ESA (European Space Agency), ICEYE (Charter partner from Finland), ISRO (India), JAXA (Japan), KARI (Korea), MBRSC (UAE), PLANET and Satellogic (Charter partners from the USA), and USGS (USA)
Space images of the Orenburg region were provided by the Charter participants from the following RS satellites: Sentinel-1A, 2A, 2B (European Space Agency), Landsat-8, Landsat-9, WorldView-1, 2, 3, GeoEye-1 (USA), Saocom-1B (Argentina), RCM-1 (Canada).
In the period from March 20 to the present time 98 survey routes on flood situation on the territory of the Orenburg region were received and transferred to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. As of 08.04.2024 the customer was provided with Russian remote sensing data for the total area of 253,066 sq. km (42 routes excluding cloudy ones), as well as remote sensing data from foreign satellites for the total area of 1,093,790 sq. km (56 routes excluding cloudy ones).
Based on the results of space images interpretation it was revealed that in Krasnokholm, Orenburg Oblast, about 906 yard territories and 41 houses were flooded as a result of spring flood. The maximum water level reached 510 cm. At present, according to the results of space image assessment dated April 5, 2024, the flood situation is beginning to stabilize. The water level is decreasing (the image from April 5 is attached).
In Orsk city, as a result of overflow of the Ural and Ory rivers (satellite image dated April 5, it was noted that all garden non-commercial partnerships located on the west and southeast sides of the old Orsk city were flooded, roads were flooded (image dated April 5 is attached).
