Russian Ships Ice-trapped in Azov Sea17/02/2012 |
| Dozens of ships are waiting for an ice escort at the entrance to the Kerch Strait and on the Azov Sea, Russia. ScanEx RDC, on behalf of the EMERECOM, has used a combination of optical and radar imagery to both analyse the ice situation and detect ships. Ships are found thanks to identification signals from their automatic identification system (AIS) sensors. A complex application of satellite-based information and additional data enables the detection of all ships, including those in distress as well as ships which have been evacuated and no longer have crew on board. |
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Operational satellite monitoring of ice and the shipping situation on the Azov Sea has been conducted by ScanEx RDC since late January. The RADARSAT-1 radar images acquired on 2nd, 6th and 9th February 2012, RADARSAT-2 images from 4th, 7th and 12th February 2012, and ENVISAT images from 2nd and 10th February 2012 detected many ships in the south-western part of the Azov Sea, which is the area with the most complicated ice situation.
Ice-breakers of the FSUE Rosmorport (Taganrog) escort trapped vessels out into open water. The Staff of Ice Operations reports that the ice-breakers Capitan Demidov, Capitan Chudinov, Capitan Krutov and Capitan Moshkin are operating on the sea.
For the next few weeks, low air temperatures are forecasted in the Azov Sea: -10°C during the day and as cold as -20°C at night, with prevailing northern and eastern winds. ScanEx RDC specialists are continuing to monitor the ice and navigation situation based on near-real-time space imagery data.
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