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The first results of the project “Leman-Baikal” of the season 2013 has been summed up

05.08.2013

The final scientific events in the season 2013 took place in the main building of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management SB RAS during the visit of the Swiss delegation, led by one of the initiators of the expedition “Lehman-Baikal” Frederik Paulsen.

On 4 August the President of the eLEMO Frederik Paulsen and researcher of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne Josef Akhtman made a scientific flight over the Selenga River delta in order to make a special survey. Then, in the main scientific building in Istomino the presentation of the results of the season 2013, made by Josef Akhtman, was held for all members of the expedition and the guests from Switzerland. The presentation was also attended by the scientists of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management, a representative of the Honored Consulate of the Russian Federation in Lausanne Mikhail Krasnopyorov, representatives of the FPLB Roman Afonin and Inna Krylova, pilots Vladimir Viharev and Nikolai Belyaev and others. The reporter spoke about the history of the preparation of the project program, the development of the equipment models and their test, the European and Russian stages of the expedition.

Among the main results of scientific season Mr.Akhtman, in particular, singled out the following:
- Development of a new methodology for the study and growth of the developed equipment models for multispectral remote sensing from the ULM;
- A large amount of collected samples and production of chemical analysis of the water environment in more than 100 locations in the Selenga Delta;
- Large-scale data collection for the production of the 3D surface models (including the towns and forests), and also landscape maps to study the area of the Selenga delta;
- Collected information from four cameras on a platform of remote sensing, developed at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne for this project, will be passed to handle up to the Baikal Institute of Nature Management, Moscow State Lomonosov University and the Fund for
Protection of Lake Baikal.