Sitronics KT Completes First Stage of Onega Lake Digitization

2024: Completion of the first stage of digitization of Lake Onega

Sitronics KT completed the first stage of the digitization of Lake Onega. The company announced this on January 14, 2025.

The company carried out hydrographic work on an area of ​ ​ 4,840 square meters. km In 2025, work will continue within the framework of the second stage of the implementation of the contract with the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation for the creation of electronic navigation maps of Lake Onega.

Specialists took measurements of the water area and conducted a space survey of the coastline and islands in the perimeter of the reservoir. The company notes that the tasks of this stage were with an asterisk and required high accuracy - the shores of the northern part of the lake practically do not have straight lines and are strongly cut by bays and bays. In particular, there are bays such as Maloye Onego, Zaonezhsky and Povenetsky, along which there is a path leading to the White Sea-Baltic Canal and to the port of Medvezhyegorsk. In addition, Petrozavodsk Bay and the port of Petrozavodsk are located in the northwestern part of the lake.

Sitronics KT is one of the few companies in Russia with a full block of competencies for creating official electronic navigation maps of such large-scale waters. The last actual maps of Lake Onega were created by hydrographs based on paper maps more than 40 years ago using the technologies of those years - single-beam echo sounders, without the use of satellite navigation, etc. Today we use the most modern and high-precision equipment, including those developed at Sitronics KT - automated survey and marine environment complexes, ENK remote transmission system, etc., "said Evgeny Shishenin, Development Director of Sitronics KT.

He stressed that Sitronics KT specialists create electronic navigation charts in accordance with international standards approved by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).

In 2025, work will continue as part of the second stage: the company's specialists will complete hydrographic work on the southern half of the lake (4,877 sq. Km) And already on the basis of the results of measurements of two years, space shooting and other works will create electronic navigation maps of the entire area of ​ ​ Lake Onega.