Sensors for digital environmental monitoring will appear on Lake Baikal

The installation cost will be 300 million rubles. It was for this amount that the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Siberian

department of the Russian Academy of Sciences won a grant.The essence of the stimulation is to develop new methods and technologies for integrated environmental monitoring of the Baikal natural territory, as well as to predict the environmental situation

The first thing that will be created is a new systemdigital sensors in the Baikal natural territory, which will allow online monitoring of various characteristics of both Baikal and the natural territory, including those that were not [previously] monitored. The second part [of the work] is the creation of a system for collecting and transmitting data, the third is data centers, decision-making centers, modeling centers, which will be done at the Institute of System Dynamics and Control Theory. 

Igor Bychkov, scientific director of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), director of the Institute of System Dynamics and Control Theory named after V. M. Matrosov

There will also be two stations in the lake area,measuring ice thickness. Previously, a similar design in an experimental format worked in the area of ​​​​the city of Slyudyanka, it was tested by the Limnological Institute of the SB RAS. Now the situation with ice cover on the lake will be known at any time of the day. 

At the time of the start of monitoring, its results will be available to the members of the scientific consortium, and these are 13 institutes, then the authorities will have access to them.

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