Kanopus-V 1, 2

Kanopus-V is a small Russian remote sensing satellite.

Provision of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Russian Academy of Sciences operational weather information for the following major tasks:

• Monitoring of man-made and natural emergencies, including natural weather phenomena;
• Mapping;
• Detect pockets of forest fires and emissions of major pollutants in the environment;
• Registration abnormal physical phenomena for earthquake prediction;
• Monitoring of agriculture, water and coastal resources
• Land use;

Source: NPO VNIIEM Website