DUSHANBE, July 3, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Tomsk State University of Control System and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) has reportedly signed a contract on establishment of a network of situation centers in Tajikistan that would provide “Tajikistan’s various municipal services with topical information received from space satellites.”

According to information posted on TUSUR’s website, Tajikistan is interested in getting and interpreting data from space satellites because these data will allow resolving problems that are significantly important for national security.  

TUSUR Vice-Chancellor in charge of science Alexander Shelupanov, who is also Director of the Institute of System Integration and Security, noted that the TUSUR Space Monitoring Center in partnership with Tajikistan’s Center for Advanced Studies would establish a network of situation centers in Tajikistan for importation and processing of photographs taken from space satellites.

Data from satellites will help solve the following problems: assessment of the depth of the reservoir powering the Norak hydroelectric power plant (HPP); exploration of gemstone deposits in Gorno Badakhshan; assessment of agricultural lands; monitoring of the emergency situations; and border control.

Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (abbreviated as TUSUR) is a public university in Tomsk, Russia.

Founded in 1962, TUSUR University was formed when two faculties, the Faculty of Radio Engineering and the Faculty of Electric Radio Control, split from Tomsk Polytechnic University to create a new educational institution.

The mission of TUSUR as an entrepreneurial research university is “to create cultural, educational, research and innovative environment, ensuring achievement of success by alumni whose labor and knowledge guarantee that high technologies serve the country, society and the world.”

TUSUR is recognized nationally as one of the leading engineering universities in Russia.  It carries out extensive basic and applied research in the area of its expertise and maintains close links to the industry, making it one of the highest-performing research universities in the country.