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Research and Applications

Areas flooded by the Elbe River in northern Germany in 2002

Not only telecommunications and television, but also meteorology, cartography, environmental monitoring, regional planning and public security are increasingly dependent on space technologies.

All around the world, negative human influences on the environment have become ever more extensive over recent decades: forest damage, soil degradation, water pollution, climate change and the greenhouse effect-satellite remote sensing can make an important contribution toward documenting and addressing these problems.

Activities at DFD and IMF reflects a wide spectrum of applications for spaceborne and airborne instruments in earth observation, including

• environmental remote sensing,
• marine remote sensing
• remote sensing of the atmosphere.

The science goals include the development of algorithms and evaluation methodologies for various remote sensing instruments, the derivation of physical parameters, the generation of information products from remote sensing data, and the development innovative applications in the context of projects.