The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and its partner Teledyne Brown Engineering signed an agreement on 1 October 2013 to develop an instrument for the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES), which will be mounted on the International Space Station (ISS).
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The Alert4All project, in short A4A, stands to significantly improve the effectiveness of alert communications systems in the EU, enhancing operations, enabling cooperation and fostering best practices. It will help authorities to alert citizens in crisis situations and significantly raise the number of citizens at risk reached by alert messages. This harmonised European system could play an inestimable role in limiting the negative consequences of a disaster.
On July 25, 2013 Alphasat I-XL was successfully lifted off on an Ariane 5 launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana with a modified LCT which will be used to test data transfer between geostationary and low Earth orbits. The Alphasat I-XL is the largest European Space Agency (ESA) telecommunications satellite to date, created with the aim of revolutionising broadband communication over the next 15 years by perfecting the application of laser transfer systems.
ESA's Earth from Space web-TV programme has issued a special edition on the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters". Jens Danzeglocke of DLR talks about what the International Charter is, who has access to this international mechanism, and which disaster situations are covered by it. He also elaborates on the Charter's newest intiative: the Universal Access approach. DLR, the German Aerospace Center, currently holds the International Charter's secretary.
Yesterday, UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) alongside other UN agencies located in Bonn discussed with 80 astronauts about how space technologies can contribute to sustainable development and the environment.
The European Space Agency ESA has developed a new Wide Area Processor, or WAP. The data processor can create maps of land deformation from satellite radar data over larger areas and with higher precision than ever before. These maps can be used to detect and monitor geological hazards.
Factors like mining, earthquakes or volcanoes can make the ground sink or rise. In order to measure these changes, radars on satellites can map the changes on a global scale and with millimetre-precision.
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"Teaching the teachers":
In cooperation with the German Aerospace Center, the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, presents to numerous renowned Partners among the German research sector the
1. SAR-EDU Summer School for Applied Radar Remote Sensing.
From the research stage to full operation – The Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) is now on call around the clock. This service facility established in 2004 provides up-to-the minute satellite-based maps for activities related to natural and environmental disasters, humanitarian aid, and civil security worldwide. It is a service of DLR’s German Remote Sensing Data Center. On 22 January 2013 DLR in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) officially launched regular ZKI operations.
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The German Space Agency (DLR) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are organizing the 32nd International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2012) jointly with the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), from 22 to 27 July 2012. The conference will be held on the special occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the IEEE, the largest engineering organization in the world.
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