RapidEye announced today that it has successfully passed theOperational Readiness Review (ORR) for the European Space Agency (ESA).Integration software will now allow ESA and its user community efficient access toRapidEye’s five meter pixel sized, multi-spectual data through an interface allowing semi-automated product and metadata exchange between RapidEye’s ground segment andESA’s Coordinated Data Access System (CDS). ESA will be using RapidEye’s satellite imagery mainly for the project ‘Safer’, a securityand emergency project of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)program in Europe. GMES is a European program for implementing a European capacityfor 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 inreinforcing the European capacity to better respend to emergency situations deriving fromstorms fires, floods, earthquakes or landslides.
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