In order to improve the quality of the environment it is planned to use innovation space technologies
21 November 2013, Thursday
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation started to use the system of Earth remote sensing (ERS) from the space. The territory of Far East was chosen for the first space survey. According to the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy, methodology of remote sensing has a lot of advantages as compared to traditional scheduled inspections due to its objectivity and continuity. It will allow to register previously unregistered sites, to increase budget receipts and liquidate the damage inflicted on the state due to illegal activity of subsurface users. He also acknowledged that offenders of license commitments usually use barbarous ways to extract minerals, which causes irreparable damage to the environment. Therefore, introduction of ERS methods will promote improvement of the ecological state at the sites of subsurface resources management.
Source of the information: the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation.
Press Service of the Ministry
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