New Arctic Remote Sensing Centers planned in Russia

According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM), two new Remote Sensing Centers will be built in Russia's Arctic to ensure adequate emergency monitoring in the region.

This is reported by Arctic-Info.

The ministry is planning to create a net of 10 search- and rescue centers in the Arctic. Four of them have already been launched.

-In October 2015, a joint Remote Sensing Center on the basis of EMERCOM's Murmansk department was launched. Similar centers will be deployed in Dudinka and Anadyr, which will enable control over the Russian Arctic territory, the statement issued by the ministry reads.

In 2014 Russia unveiled a strategy to boost its presence in the Arctic, believed to hold vast oil and natural gas reserves.