DLR - ZKI

ZKI Service for Federal Agencies (ZKI-DE)

Analysis Products in Support to the Emergency Management

VABENE system test during evaluation event of Helmholtz Association, 22 - 24 April 2013, Cologne

April 12, 2013 14:00 UTC

During an evaluation event of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres in Köln Porz, between 22 and 24 April 2013, the German Aerospace Center is conducting a flight campaign within the VABENE project. Here, high resolution aerial imagery are acquired in real-time mode using the 3K+ aerial camera system.

ZKI-DE User Training successfully accomplished

March 7, 2013 10:07 UTC

A training course titled "Activation of the ZKI-DE Service: Benefits, Process flow, Applications", which was designed for the users of the framework contract between BMI and DLR, was held between February 28th to 1st March at the facilities of the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen.

DLR supports five Charter activations since beginning of 2013

March 6, 2013 14:38 UTC

To date the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ was activated five times in 2013: In January for the Palestinian territories, Mozambique and Indonesia, in February for the Seychelles and Madagascar. Without exception these were flood events, often caused by massive storm systems passing by (e.g. hurricanes or cyclones).

Visit of Czech Prime Minister Nečas

February 21, 2013 13:00 UTC

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has moved its headquarters from Brussels to Prague. This provided an occasion for Petr Nečas, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, to also visit DLR's Earth Observation Center (EOC) in Oberpfaffenhofen an to get informed about the work of the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) on 21 February 2013.

Federal President Gauck gets informed about the work of the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI)

February 19, 2013 17:43 UTC

On February 19, 2013 Federal President Joachim Gauck visited the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen on the occasion of his official inaugural visit in Bavaria. He was accompanied by the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and the Bavarian Minister of Ecomonic Affairs, Martin Zeil.