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IF-Bund - Innovative Remote Sensing for the German Federal Administration

A framework contract running from 2021-2024, “IF-Bund - Innovative Remote Sensing for the German Federal Administration”, has been concluded between the German Aerospace Center (Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.) and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI).
Its purpose is to assure the routine sharing of remote sensing science expertise with federal administrative organs.

	Copernicus Services The stated objective of the Copernicus earth observation programme of the European Union (EU) is the long-term provision of reliable and timely information based on earth observation data obtained from an independent European system. The Copernicus programme places data and products at the disposal of authorized users free of charge following an open data policy.
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	International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" The International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" is an association of space agencies and satellite operators with the aim of providing a unified system for the rapid acquisition and delivery of satellite data in case of a disaster or crisis situation.
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ZKI-DE – a service for federal authorities

Between 2013 and 2020, the ZKI-DE service made it possible for federal authorities to obtain at short notice current geoinformation and analyses, which presented public administrations with new options for action. This innovative collaboration between the Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) met the need of federal authorities for current, value-added remote sensing data and analyses for crisis situations and to support civil security. Between 2016 und 2020 another goal of the cooperation was to enable the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, BKG) to carry out primary activities of the ZKI-DE services by 2021.

	MODIS Fire Service Mit Hilfe des MODIS Sensors an Bord der NASA Satelliten Terra-1 und Aqua-1 können Waldbrände operationell detektiert werden. Die Informationen zu aktuellen Feuern stehen europaweit für jedermann täglich und kostenlos zur Verfügung.
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	Flood Service A system has been established at the German Remote Sensing Data Center of DLR that allows the near-real time mapping and monitoring of flood situations. It consists of fully automatic processing chains for the derivation of the inundation extent based on Sentinel-1 and TerraSAR-X Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data.
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IF-Bund - Innovative Remote Sensing for the German Federal Administration

Copernicus Services

International Charter "Space and Major Disasters"

ZKI-DE – a service for federal authorities

MODIS Fire Service

Flood Service