27 February 2015. A scientific seminar on the topic “Satellite monitoring of the Black Sea water areas” was held at the AEROCOSMOS Research Institute under the chairmanship of Academician V.G. Bondur.

A scientific seminar was held at the AEROCOSMOS Research Institute under the chairmanship of Academician V.G. Bondur, Director of the Institute. The topic of the seminar was “Satellite monitoring of the Black Sea water areas.” During the seminar, presentations were delivered and discussed by Dr. O.Yu. Lavrova (Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) and Dr. A.N. Serebryany (Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences).

The presentations and discussions focused primarily on previously obtained results of remote sensing from space of various processes and phenomena occurring on the sea surface and in the near-surface layer of the Black Sea water areas.

The participants discussed approaches to the development of methods for monitoring anthropogenic impacts on the shelf zones of the Russian Black Sea coast, including the Crimean Peninsula and the water areas near the city of Sevastopol, based on satellite and in-situ data.

During the seminar, proposals were discussed for conducting experimental studies of the Black Sea coastal water areas, to be carried out within the framework of a project implemented under the Federal Target Program “Research and Development in Priority Areas for the Development of the Russian Scientific and Technological Complex for 2014–2020” (Agreement No. 14.577.21.0110 of 8 September 2014).