ONBOARD COMPLEX OF INFORMATION SUPPORT OF SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS IN ARCTIC
The article discusses a variant of the all‑season and all‑weather complex for providing search and rescue operations conducted with the help of aircraft in the Arctic. The creation of such a complex is associated with the active development of the Arctic zones of the Russian Federation and the difficulties that are characteristic of these regions of the country: extreme climatic conditions, underdeveloped ground and aviation infrastructure, etc. A promising direction is the development of hardware‑software complexes of «improved vision», including various sensors: television and infrared cameras, radar stations, lidars. The article defines the main functional tasks for such complexes, analyzes foreign and domestic analogues of onboard complexes of information support for search and rescue operations. The absence of the complexes providing simultaneous solution of all the noted functional tasks was revealed, in connection with which a new onboard complex was proposed. In this work, the components of the proposed complex are considered: a laser‑television module, radar stations for forward vision and sensing of the underlying surface; methods of visualization of complex multi‑spectral images of the environment, as well as the formation of messages and signals about the danger are presented.