Wiktor Janukowitsch, the Ukrainian president, is preparing his country against devastating forest fires. He ordered the government to organise a 24 hours surveillance and air monitoring of the forests.

Diamond Aircraft will send two of its special mission aircraft, DA42 GUARDIAN, to the Ukraine for supporting this intention.

One GUARDIAN equipped with an „Airpointer“ (from the Austrian company MLU) will measure the air quality for identification of unusual high toxic concentration.  The Airpointer-GUARDIAN was already flying different volcanic ash measurement missions this April.

The second special mission aircraft delivers infrared images and videos, transmitted in real-time to the ground fire-fighters. So glowing embers as well as fire hot-spots can be detected and fighted very fast and efficiently. From the air-support the Ukrainian government is expecting to avoid such a devastating fire spread like in Russia.

Expected take-off of the Diamond aircraft is tomorrow, 12th of August 2010, 09:00 a.m.

For further information please visit:
www.diamond-sensing.com

Contact:
Anita Kohlweg, BA
Diamond Airborne Sensing GmbH
T +43 2622 26700 1182
E a.kohlweg@diamond-sensing.com