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Satellite radar imagery data was used to find the Partner fishing schooner lost in the Sea of Japan. According to Russian EMERCOM the area search operations for the Partner that sent a distress call on7th January in Tatar Strait near Sakhalin were terminated.
Back on 9th January, RADARSAT-2 satellite, equipped with multi-purpose radar, delivered high-resolution images of the Partner schooner search area. Ground assets of space data reception and processing of ScanEx and Samara State Aerospace University were used to get near real-time satellite images.
The Partner fishing schooner, sailing under the flag of Cambodia and registered at the port of Pnom Penh, sent a distress call on 7th January. The ship was catching fish in the Tatar Strait between Sakhalin and the continent. According to Federal Agency for Fishery there were fourteen crew onboard and all of them were Russian citizens.
The schooner was searched for by airplanes at the sea and onshore. Bodies of five crewmembers were found in the sea, according to RIA NOVOSTI.
A group of operational satellite-based monitoring of emergencies of ScanEx RDC started the search for the lost ship using satellite images and selecting the imaging and polarisation modes consistent with the task input data (ship's size, water surface conditions, etc.); ordering two images with minimum time delay; modelling wind and currents to estimate the uncontrolled drift speed and direction and detection of drifting objects based on two consecutive images.
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