RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that it has successfully passed the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) for the European Space Agency (ESA). Integration software will now allow ESA and its user community efficient access to RapidEye’s five meter pixel sized, multi-spectral data through an interface allowing semi-automated product and metadata exchange between RapidEye’s ground segment and ESA’s Coordinated Data Access System (CDS). ESA will be using RapidEye’s satellite imagery mainly for the project ‘Safer’, a security and emergency project of the Global Monitoring for Environment and
Security (GMES) program in Europe. GMES is a European program for implementing a European capacity for Earth Observation, with an objective to
monitor and better understand the environment. By contributing to the success of the ‘Safer’ project, RapidEye will support ESA in reinforcing the European capacity to better respond to emergency situations deriving from storms fires, floods, earthquakes or landslides. Read More
