Ukrainian Segment of IGMASS - International Global Monitoring Aerospace System

Efficient monitoring and forecasting of natural and man-mad disasters require strong international collaboration at different levels. IGMASS, which stands for International Global Monitoring Aerospace System, is an initiative of Russian scientific and public organizations with an aim to design a “system of systems” approach for effective early warning of international community about global risks and threats, including dangerous events of space origin. Ukraine closely cooperates with international community to develop a Ukrainian segment of IGMASS to provide contribution both at regional and global scale.

It is worth noting that IGMASS is included as a Pilot Intergovernmental Innovative project (2014-2018) into the Inter-governmental Program of Innovative Collaboration of CIS Countries until 2020. This project foresees collaboration of the following countries: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Currently, a system project for the Ukrainian Segment of IGMASS is under development. It foresees the development of three main subsystems: seismic activity monitoring and forecasting; floods, fires and droughts monitoring and risk assessment; and control and monitoring of critical objects. The access to the geoinformation services provided within IGMASS will be facilitated through a dedicated geoportal. It will conform to the OGC standards and provide interoperability with existing systems, e.g. GEOSS. Several uses cases are under development for the Pilot project. The first use case is seismic activity monitoring which utilizes data recorded by the network of stations for seismic observations and geophysical phenomena monitoring. Second and third uses cases deal with flood monitoring and forecasting, and fire monitoring, respectively. These use cases substantially rely on the existing infrastructure provided by the UN-SPIDER RSO and SRI NAS Ukraine and SSA Ukraine, Center of the Special Information Receiving and Processing and the Navigating Field Control, Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center.