At a recent press-conference on monitoring and control of natural and human-induced emergency situations was held in “Rossiyskaya gazeta” press-center. The event participants noted that satellite imagery data has been increasingly wider used for emergencies monitoring and response. Each summer Russian forest suffers from fires. On the one hand a forest fire is one of the natural phenomena in life of the forest. It turned out that there are certain types of trees that need a very high temperature – the burning temperature – to drop seeds into the soil. However, this by no means can justify human negligence. Read More
