Geo-Risks and Civil Security Department

The Geo-Risks and Civil Security department of the German Remote Sensing Data Center conducts research on innovative methods for assessing earth observation data in order to gain new insights and derive information. The focus is on environmental and natural disasters, humanitarian crises, geological risk research, civil security research, and societal challenges including global urbanization and migration.

Our research includes developing new methodologies for assessing remote sensing data, using and further refining geoinformation technologies, creating thematic processors and monitoring systems, modeling vulnerability and risk, and devising and establishing crisis information and early warning systems.

The work of the department is integrated in national, European and international collaborative efforts and carried out in close coordination with relevant user organizations. Together with other EOC bodies, the department also has responsibility for operating the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI).