Welcome to the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information

The Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) presents a service of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of DLR. It provides a 24/7 service for the rapid provision, processing and analysis of satellite imagery during natural and environmental disasters, for humanitarian relief activities and civil security issues worldwide. The resulting satellite based information products are provided to relief organisations and public authorities and are also freely available on the ZKI website.

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Flood in Mozambique
24 January 2012, 23:33 CET

On January 16, 2012, Mozambique’s coast was hit by the tropical depression “Dando” followed by cyclone “Funso”. With wind speeds up to 220 km/h and torrential rains the storms have caused severe damages and floods.

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Fires in Chile
3 January 2012, 22:10 CET - last update on 17 January 2012, 13:17 CET

Since December 27, 2011, a massive forest fire raged through the Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile and has destroyed an area of about 125 sq km. Hundreds of military personnel and fire fighters were deployed at the scene to fight the blaze and managed to bring the fire under control on January 2, 2012.

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Forest fires in Romania
8 November 2011, 21:30 CET

On November 06, 2011, heath and forest fires were reported in the mountain region near Sibiu in Romania. The map shows the burnt area extent derived by semi- automatic image analysis of SPOT-5 data (2.5 m resolution) acquired on November 08, 2011.

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Earthquake in Turkey on October 23, 2011
23 October 2011, 23:17 CEST - last update on 26 October 2011, 23:52 CEST

On Sunday October 23, 2011 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 at 5 km depth hit the province of Van in eastern Turkey, followed by a series of powerful aftershocks of magnitudes up to 5.6. The epicentre was located at 38° 37' 40.80"N, 43° 29' 9.60"E, at the village of Tabanli 19 km Northeast of the city of Van between the Van Lake and the Iranian border.

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Parking occupancy at the NRW-Day and German Unity Day, Bonn 2011, Germany.
27 September 2011, 20:39 CEST

On October, 2-3, 2011, a flight campaign was conducted within the Vabene project of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in close cooperation with the Bonn policy department. Within this campaign, high resolution aerial imagery using the 3K aerial photo camera have been acquired.

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	14/09/2011	EU CARPATHEX exercise on CBRN threats held in the Podkarpackie Region, Poland
	13/09/2011	Floods in Pakistan
	28/07/2011	Famine in East Africa
	08/06/2011	Volcanic eruption in Chile
	05/05/2011	Dune fires in the Netherlands

DLR joins International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'

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