GLOBAL SYSTEM OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF THE SEAS AND OCEANS
The article discusses the concept of development and creation of Global system of environmental monitoring of the seas and oceans. The system can be created as a collection of subunits in the form of international and national subsystems of the respective areas, using the same principles of structural organization, including communication channels and points of transmission and processing of information. Each subsystem includes the following structural elements, the number of which varies depending on the size of the serviced water area: nuclear-powered submarines or diesel-electric submarines in the form of a converted underwater research vessels capable of operating with a wide range of unmanned underwater vehicles; seaplanes; research vessels, equipped with unmanned aerial vehicles; space communication; space systems for monitoring and control ; scientific information center subsystem; infrastructure logistics subsystem. The system is created as a set of closed and open joint stock companies, integrated in a Consortium.