Near real-time commercial monitoring of the Northern Sea Route and the freezing seas of Russia is initiated in behalf of the ice-breaking operations of the FSUE Atomflot. A contract on radar satellite imagery of the ice situation ordered by the FSUE Atomflot in 2010 has been carried out by ScanEx RDC. A network of 4 ground RS data reception and processing stations of ScanEx is used for ice situation control in quasi real-time along the route from Murmansk to Vladivostok. The first experience of operational satellite-based support of ice-breaking operations was received in this April when providing data about the nuclear-powered ice-breakers “Taimyr” and “Yamal”, following the route Murmansk-Dixon-Murmansk in the waters of the Barents and Kara Seas. Read More
