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Before and after comparison and damage extent in the interactive web viewer – Earthquake Turkey/Syria

During the 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, satellite images and drone data were rapidly processed and analyzed by ZKI. The information is made available to relief organizations and authorities using innovative visualization technology. 

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The ZKI Portfolio

For more than 15 years, earth observation data such as satellite, aerial images and other spatial data have been acquired, analyzed and processed in a user-friendly manner at ZKI - especially for the application areas of emergency mapping and civil security. It is our task to develop innovations and new application scenarios through user-oriented further developments and advice - especially for public authorities.  

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Damage extent and before-after comparison: Flood in Germany– Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler

During the 2021 flood in Germany, data was collected via innovative DLR aerial cameras that process data in near-real-time and subsequently analyzed by ZKI. The ZKI uses (the most recent) different earth observation systems and analysis algorithms. 

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ZKI receives high award "German Spaceflight Honorary Pin" from DGLR

ZKI has been honored by the German Aerospace Society (DGLR) with the award of the "German Space Agency Pin of Honor" for its "outstanding achievements in the use of Earth observation data to support crisis management after natural disasters and in humanitarian aid worldwide." https://www.dlr.de/eoc/de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-17417/27631_read-74312/ 

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ZKI-Operationsroom for mapping

Since 1999, the ZKI-Service did more than 1000 activations and trainings.
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Picture of the hurricane Florence made by Alexander Gerst for the ZKI-Team out of the ISS

One of the first topics the ZKI dealt with was about food events. Since then there was more research done. Nowadays there is a system for near-real-time monitoring of flooded areas by using fully automated processes based on Sentinel-1 and TerraSAR-X-data. https://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-12939/22596_read-51634/
 

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Usage of thermal information for analyzing recent fire sources

The Satellite data of the FireBird-Mission is used for research at DLR and is provided for external partners. The aim of this mission is detecting and measuring high temperature events out of space, like wild fires. The shown map locates the active fires of different dates of the forest fires in California 2018. https://activations.zki.dlr.de/en/activations/items/ACT139.html
 

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Mapping based on very high resolution satellite data

At ZKI satellite data with different spatial resolution is used for extracting crisis information. Especially the combination of very high resolution satellite data and aerial images linked with other geoinformations shown in maps and other products can realize an added value in many applications.
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Combination of different datatypes

For many ZKI-Analysis different kinds of data is used and their results is combined to get the highest information content. One example is the volcanic eruption of the most active Vulcan of South America. There TerraSAR-X-data and Rapid-Eye-images were analyzed.
https://www.dlr.de/eoc/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-12827/22421_read-51610/
 

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The Center for Satellite based Crisis Information (ZKI) is an institution of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen.

At ZKI Earth Observation data such as satellite or aerial imagery as well as geo data is acquired and analysed in order to generate up-to-date situational awareness information before, during or after a disaster situation or in case of major events. All crisis information is produced according to the ZKI users’ requirements and provided for instance as maps, geo-pdf, web services or text dossiers. Main national and international user groups are political decision makers, situation centers and relief organisations. Many ZKI products are published at the website. In addition, consultancy, technology transfer as well as trainings and exercises are provided. The close interlocking between research, development and service is an enormous strength of the ZKI.

The ZKI cooperates in the national and international context with various partners from research and industry and is closely networked with official partners and non-governmental organisations. It is mainly based on the national framework contract IF-BUND as well as the international services Copernicus EMS and International Charter "Space and Major Disasters".

 

WFPxDLR meeting at WFP Headquarter in Rome


October 27, 2023
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are partners with many years of successful cooperation in various thematic areas. On October 25th, a delegation of DLR scientists visited the WFP headquarter for a joint strategic and technical workshop. Aim of this one-day workshop was to deepen the partnership and, in particular, to reflect on past successes and develop ideas for effective future collaboration.
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AIFER research project has ended successfully


October 16, 2023
The German-Austrian joint project AIFER (Artificial Intelligence for Emergency Response) is coming to an end. For the last time, all partners from Germany and Austria as well as the funding agencies met at DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen on October 12-13, 2023 to present and finally discuss the project results.
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Forest Fires Around the Mediterranean Sea: ZKI Supports with Information on the Development of Fire Areas


August 1, 2023
The wildfires in the Mediterranean region were exceptionally intense in July 2023, causing devastating damages. According to the European Copernicus Program EFFIS, the burned area is nearly nearly twice as large as the long-term average. A web service provided by the EOC (Earth Observation Center) shows daily updates on the fire's development. Evaluations from the Center for Satellite-based Crisis Information (ZKI) provide information about the extent of the damage, including data from the German hyperspectral satellite EnMAP.
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DLR expertise on modern civil protection in the German Bundestag


July 06, 2023
The importance of Earth observation data and geoinformation for modern civil protection was illustrated by Dr. Monika Gähler, head of the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) on July 3, 2023, during a public hearing of the German Bundestag's Committee on Interior and Home Affairs.
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Flood in Somalia


May 31, 2023
After heavy rainfalls between March and May 2023, Somalia was hit by widespread floods. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 460,000 people have been affected within the last two months by this disaster.
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