SOME METHODOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES OF TEMPERATURE MONITORING WITH REGARD TO SAFETY OF EXISTING AND NEW INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE RUSSIAN PERMAFROST ZONE
The article discusses the issues of industrial, civil and ecological safety pertinent to the adopted strategy of long-term and sustainable economic development of Russia in the urban areas of the Siberian and Far Eastern permafrost zone. Implementation of this strategy will be hardly possible without solving the important scientiﬁc concept and major economic problem. The problem is to pursue and develop science-intensive innovation technologies that provide resource-saving and environmentally friendly diagnostics, control and prediction of the thermal state of permafrost in built-up areas. Experiments carried out in Yakutia and Trans-Baikal have provided a scientiﬁc foundation to solutions that can lead to technologies combining the advantages of borehole thermometry and «non-classic» geophysical methods. This approach is seen as means for organization of long-term permafrost thermal monitoring networks that will allow early detection of climate or anthropogenically driven warming of foundation soils and thus prevent or alleviate risks of disaster.