TerrsaSAR-X
The highly capable Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite
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Commercial users require detailed data adapted to their individual requirements, available quickly and reliably, independent of daylight and weather conditions. This is exactly what TerraSAR-X offers. Data from Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR) are particularly suitable for commercial exploration. The SAR instruments supply extremely detailed radar images, day and night, in all weather, which are the basis for a wide variety of products and services, such as highly sophisticated client-specific image interpretation, maps, databases and analysis much in demand for a wide scope of applications. Sectors include environmental planning, land use and natural resource exploration, regional and urban development, catastrophe response and relief, insurance and risk, security and defence, etc.
New-quality data records, as provided by TerraSAR-X, will also offer a vast amount of new research incentives, for instance in ecology, geology, hydrology and oceanography. The smallest movements of the Earth's surface (plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquake) are further scientific fields of application.
TerraSAR-X
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TerraSAR-X is the first German space project implemented under a Public–Private Partnership. Cooperation partners are the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and Astrium. The DLR will be responsible for the scientific use of the TerraSAR-X data, whereas commercial marketing will be undertaken exclusively by Infoterra GmbH, a wholly-owned Astrium subsidiary specialising in the collection and processing of air- and satellite-based data.
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About Infoterra GmbH
Infoterra GmbH, Germany, holds the exclusive commercial exploitation rights for the new German radar satellite TerraSAR-X, successfully launched on June 15th, 2007 – enabling the company to provide weather-independent, high-resolution, new-quality radar data as well as reliable data access services.
A variety of geo-information products and services complete the portfolio: based on radar data as well as data acquired by other spaceborne sensors, Infoterra provides reliable and timely knowledge to customers operating in versatile fields of application around the globe.
Infoterra GmbH has been a leader in development and validation of GMES services for several years, having established a strong expertise in geoinformation services for land monitoring, water quality assessment, flood risk management, and spatial planning applications.
The company is headquartered in Friedrichshafen and operates a production centre in Potsdam, currently employing an overall workforce of more than 120 employees.
Infoterra GmbH is part of the Infoterra Group, which also comprises companies in France, Spain the United Kingdom and Hungary, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium, Europe's leading space specialist.
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