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The ZKI Portfolio

The ZKI has a standard portfolio which can be divided in Emergency Mapping and Civil Security. Moreover, there is the possibility to test new use cases just as required and depending on the user specifications.  

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ZKI-Operationsroom for mapping

Since 1999, the ZKI-Service did more than 400 activations and trainings in which the output was over 1000 products.
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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.

At national and international level ZKI cooperates with different partners from research and industry. It is closely networked with administrative partners as well as non-governmental organisations and consists mainly of the three services ZKI-DE, Copernicus EMS and the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters”.

 

Success story: Handover of ZKI-DE service to BKG


21 December 2020
The Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) at the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) has developed "ZKI-DE", a service specifically for federal institutions. It has been successfully operated for eight years. At the end of 2020, this ZKI-DE service will be handed over to the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). For German authorities, the federal continuation is an important step.
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ZKI participates in development of remote controlled truck mission for WFP


27 October 2020
As part of a new collaborative project, researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and a consortium of additional DLR institutes and technology partners are investigating how aid supplies can be safely brought to their destinations using remote-controlled trucks.
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Fire detection on Kilimandjaro -- October 2020


21 October 2020
Analyses of satellite data show the spatial extent of the forest and brush fires on Africa’s highest mountain and their development over time. It is also possible to analyse and predict the degree of biomass combustion. Comparisons with the disastrous fires in Australia (late 2019, early 2020) and in California during the past few weeks come to mind.
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Artificial Intelligence supports the mapping of damages in Moria


08 September 2020
During the night of September 8, 2020, several fires broke out in the refugee camp Moria on Lesbos, Greece. Thousands of refugees were forced to leave their shelters. The ZKI maps the camp damages with support from artificial intelligence.
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Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon


07 August 2020
On August 4, 2020, a heavy explosion in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, killed over a hundred people and left many hundred thousand homeless. The explosion took place in the harbor area at 18:08 local time. It was probably caused by a large quantity of ammonium nitrate stored at a warehouse in the port.
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Members of the Bundestag Karsten Klein and Lukas Köhler visit ZKI


30 July 2020
A fact-finding visit led Bundestag members Karsten Klein (FDP) and Dr. Lukas Köhler (FDP) to DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen on 29 July 2020. The FDP politicians were particularly interested in applications in the field of environment and climate. In the Earth Observation Center (EOC), the delegates then discussed the possible applications of earth observation. The focus was on the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI).
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ZKI-Support for India and 6 other disaster regions


17 July 2020
Within the framework of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters', DLR-ZKI has been activated seven times in the past two weeks, six of the activations being due to heavy rainfall with subsequent flooding and landslides in Asia (Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan, and Myanmar).
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ZKI Cornerstones
Germany
Provision of ZKI Services for national authorities
 
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Participation in the European Copernicus Emergency Management Service
 
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DLR membership in the International Charter „Space and Major Disasters"
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