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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Since 1999, the ZKI-Service did more than 400 activations and trainings in which the output was over 1000 products. https://activations.zki.dlr.de/en/activations/
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/
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
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. https://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-12828/
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/
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”.
Starting on 19 March 2020 DLR will be operating in so-called "minimum operation: maximum performance, physical distance". As many of the staff as possible are working from home with contacts possible via email and telephone. With this measure, DLR is attempting to counteract the further spread of the corona virus in the current situation.
Services provided by DFD's Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) will be maintained as usual. We have taken the necessary steps and arranged with our partner institutions so that all inquiries can continue to be promptly processed by the ZKI team.