RapidEye Science Archive: Remote Sensing Data for the German Scientific Community

The RapidEye Science Archives RESA-project funded by the Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi - Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology) and provided by the RapidEye and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Earth Observation Center (EOC) is an essential contribution to a broad scientific environmental applications of RapidEye data and to develop applications, value added products as well as services based on these RapidEye-data. The national project RESA accompanies the GMES initiative (Global monitoring for environment and Security) of the European Union (EU) and the European space agency (ESA) with that. The uncomplicated and generous appropriation of RapidEye-data by the RESA project innovative services based on satellite and airborne remote sensing can be implemented and combined with terrestrial, maritime and additional data sources. This concerns the cognitive process in operational remote sensing data processing as well as the data providers as e.g. RapidEye.