With its national and international ground stations, the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) provides direct access to the data from Earth observation satellites, processes the data into information products, distributes them to the users and stores all the data in the German Satellite Data Archive (D-SDA) on a long-term basis. With geoscientific work on atmospheric, global change and civil security research, DFD provides access to remote sensing products and solutions and thus consolidates their application in the private and scientific sectors. It operates subject-specific ‘user services’, in particular the World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (WDC-RSAT) and the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI). Together with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), DFD forms the Earth Observation Center (EOC) – the centre of excellence for Earth observation in Germany.
The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)
Contact
Antarctic station GARS O'Higgins
Locations and Offices
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76,167243
German Remote Sensing Data Center: number of employees (2019)
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76,16776Female
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76,167167Male
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32
German Remote Sensing Data Center: number of PhD students (2018)
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322018
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196,189385
German Remote Sensing Data Center: number of journal contributions from 2014 to 2018 (49 percent of open access)
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196,189196number of non-open access journal contributions (2014 to 2018)
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196,189189number of open access journal contributions (2014 to 2018)