The Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry Zhaslan Madiyev reported on digital solutions in preparation for the fire season 2025 at the Government meeting.

He noted that in preparation for the fire season of 2025, the Ministry is carrying out comprehensive work on monitoring of natural fires. 

The work is carried out in three key stages: before, during and after the fire. This approach includes the provision of operational data at each stage and allows for a timely response as well as an accurate assessment of the consequences. 

To prevent risks of wildfires, the Ministry has implemented a map showing the fire danger class and fire danger index. It is available in the geoinformation system mchs.gharysh.kz and the information system Tabigat.gov.kz. The system includes two key tools: fire danger class calculated on the basis of Kazhydromet data taking into account meteorological conditions and type of vegetation cover, and fire danger map formed on the basis of space and meteorological data analysis taking into account vegetation features.

At the stage of fire monitoring and modelling, comprehensive control is carried out, which includes the identification of thermal points. Zones with abnormally high temperatures are detected by satellites, transmitted to a ground station and displayed on a map within 2-4 hours. These maps are already available for viewing in the geoinformation system mchs.gharysh.kz and the information system Tabigat.gov.kz. To reduce the display time to 30 minutes, it is planned to modernise the ground station in July this year.

Fire modelling will be based on meteorological data, taking into account wind direction, slope and fuel moisture, which will allow to determine the direction and speed of fire spread. After testing, this tool is also planned to be implemented in the Tabigat information system.

During fires, the Ministry of Emergency Situations receives satellite images on request through the geoinformation system mchs.gharysh.kz, which allows for prompt assessment of fire spread. Resources of domestic remote sensing devices and foreign partners are used to provide images. Since 2025, Kazakhstan has joined the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, which allows receiving images from international partners free of charge in emergency cases.

After a fire, the Ministry assesses the burnt areas on the basis of space images. The assessment is carried out on the basis of images received from domestic remote sensing satellites and satellites of foreign partners, which makes it possible to determine the areas of burned areas and the condition of burned forest and steppe areas in the territory of Kazakhstan.

These services in the interests of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources are provided through the information system Tabigat.gov.kz, put into commercial operation in 2025. Integration with the information system to automate the collection of information on forestry is also being carried out. 

Zhaslan Madiev proposed to assign this system to the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, as well as to provide its technical support and development, and the NC Kazakstan Garysh Sapary JSC to determine the provider of space monitoring of forest-steppe fires. 

In addition, Kazakhtelecom JSC together with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources started work on the development of a system for early detection of forest fires. This system is a comprehensive solution for monitoring of forest territories. Within the framework of this direction it is planned to install special review video cameras, the video stream from which will be programmatically processed. In case of fire signs, the system will signal to the Operational Control Centre with data transfer to the Emercom Command Centre. To ensure the operation of this system, Kazakhtelecom JSC plans to install antenna-mast structures and systems of autonomous and backup power supply to support the operation of cameras, which will make it possible to cover 24 most fire-prone forest farms with a total area of more than 40 thousand square kilometres.

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