RapidEye Maps Floods in Germany

by | Jun 18, 2013

Berlin, Germany, June 10, 2013”Many regions of Germany, and other parts of Central Europe, have been hit severely by flooding in early June in the wake of unusually heavy rain.

RapidEye was able to deliver first images of affected areas in Eastern Germany on June 5.

DLR’s Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) used RapidEye satellite imagery to quickly map the areas most affected by the current floods. Click here to get an overview of recent map products produced by DLR-ZKI.

Click here to see RapidEye images of areas along the Elbe River, Germany, affected by the most current floods in the wake of unusually heavy rain. Images are from June 05, 2013.

About RapidEye

RapidEye is a leading provider of quality high-resolution satellite imagery. With a constellation of five Earth Observation satellites, RapidEye is able to image up to five million square kilometers of earth every day, and adds over one billion square kilometers of imagery to its archive every year. Online searching and viewing of its massive collection of imagery is quick and easy with EyeFind, RapidEye’s archive discovery tool (eyefind.rapideye.com).

With an unprecedented combination of wide area repetitive coverage and five meter pixel size multi-spectral imagery, RapidEye is a natural choice for many industries and government agencies. RapidEye: Delivering the World. www.rapideye.com.

 

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