RDC Center ScanEx News

White Sea harp seals satellite-based monitoring

2010-03-18

The technology of satellite imagery will be used to arrange shipping in the White Sea bypassing the nursery areas of the harp seals during the 2010 spring whelping period. The respective project called “White Sea -2010”, by the initiative of the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency, has been carried out by ScanEx RDC together with other organizations.

All-weather satellite-based control of the Northern Sea Route ensured

2010-03-11

The Russian UniScan ground receiving station for space data reception and processing, installed in Megion (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area), was certified on March 2 by the Canadian Space Agency to receive radar data from RADARSAT-1 satellite.

Satellite-based monitoring of seasonal floods on Russian rivers started

2010-03-11

ScanEx RDC conducts space imaging of the spring season floods on the largest Russian rivers in behalf of the Emercom of Russia in March-May 2010. Satellite data is submitted to the National Center for Crisis Management of the Emercom of Russia. The goal is to provide operational data in support of the Emercom response actions. The practical experience of the 2009 seasonal floods showed that the satellite imagery data enable both to assess and take the situation under control, and to make timely administrative decisions.

JSC “SPC REKOD” and ScanEx RDC Join Their Efforts for Developing Russia’s Space Technologies

2010-03-09

In February 2010 JSC “SPC REKOD” and ScanEx Research and Development Center signed the Agreement for Cooperation aimed at expanding the scope of satellite imagery materials application in Russia.

Satellite data handling software update campaign is ongoing

2010-03-09

ScanEx RDC continues to update its satellite data handling software: ScanMagic and ScanEx Image Processor.

Chile earthquake consequences: detailed space imagery data

2010-03-05

Imaging of the town of Constitucion (Talca Province, around 260 km south-west of the Santiago, the capital of Chile) was conducted in behalf of the Emercom of Russia. This town was damaged as a result of the February 27 devastating earthquake. Detailed unbiased spatial data of the disastrous area were acquired on March 2 from EROS B satellite (Israel, resolution: 0.7m) by the request from ScanEx RDC. The image illustrates the destructions in the coastal area of the town, caused by the tsunami.

Moscow Settlement of Rechnik Captured from Space

2010-03-03

The ScanEx Center has received highly-detailed color images of the settlement of Rechnik, which became a subject of public scrutiny due to the land title disputes. The settlement was imaged on February 16, 2010 using the hardware onboard the WorldView-2 satellite with spatial resolution of 0.5 m upon the request of ScanEx RDC.

ScanEx RDC to take part in 11th Conference “Geoinformatics in Oil and Gas Industry”

2010-03-01

During the 11th All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Geoinformatics in oil and gas industry” (Moscow) on March 4, 2010 the master-class of the ScanEx RDC will be held called Software technologies of ScanEx RDC on processing and analysis of remote sensing data for oil and mining industries.

Software solutions to make RS data catalogs public on Internet and Intranet

2010-02-26

Specialists of ScanEx RDC have developed a new software product ScanEx Web Catalog® for the publication of space imagery catalogs on the Internet and Intranet.

SPOT 4 opened the 2010 imaging season

2010-02-17

SPOT 4 satellite operations have been resumed after orbital parameters corrections. Starting on February 6 the space vehicle has been performing long-swath imaging in direct access mode of the Russian territory on all passes over the country.