The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM of Russia) actively uses unmanned aerial systems for remote reconnaissance of the situation during floods and fire season.

“Now, specialists are armed with more than 400 drones. These are aircraft and helicopter types, as well as combined assembly. At the same time, in order to efficiently fulfill the tasks assigned to us, it is necessary to increase the fleet of unmanned aircraft. This year we plan to purchase more than 300 more drones,” said the Head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Kurenkov.

In addition, to organize mobile control points for unmanned aerial systems, 8 all-terrain vehicles will have to be purchased, some of them in Arctic design.

To date, more than 10.5 thousand orthophotomaps have been built using data obtained from drones. They are automatically included in information resources and become the basis for modeling the possible development of the situation. Initially, it took specialists a day to create an orthophotomap; now it takes no more than 7 minutes. It takes only 20 minutes to create a general model of the situation, which is communicated to a single duty and dispatch service. This performance is achieved through the use of modern graphics stations.