Whales, puffins, 2500 inhabitants, one airport – this is Andenes, a small town at the northern tip of Norway's Andøya island. Located approximately 300 kilometres above the Arctic Circle, it is also ...

We are thankful to share that our poster contribution at the 2025 International Freiberg Conference on Circular Carbon Technologies received the Award for Outstanding Poster, based on the votes of the ...

Air traffic plays a crucial role in ensuring the mobility of people and goods around the globe. Environmental impact, aircraft noise and resistance to disruptions must be balanced with sufficient ...

Uwe Riedel, Director of the DLR-Institute of Low Carbon Industrial Processes and Chair of the Department of Decarbonized Industrial Processes at BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg, has been awarded the ...

Negative experiences with intermodal journeys can lead to more use of private transport. However, city planners and transport operators often do not have access to digital experience data to respond ...

Every second counts for emergency services and rescue personnel in the event of a forest fire, traffic accident or natural disaster. Yet at the start of an operation, precise information about the ...

Reconnaissance in Türkiye: At the beginning of 2023, two colleagues from the DLR Institute of Space Research were on site with the aid organisation ISAR Germany to support emergency services with ...

Control centre staff monitor the drone mission on screen. The aerial images are transmitted directly to the fire brigade and police systems via the 5G network.

A drone takes off on an automated flight as part of the ADELE project. It delivers high-resolution live images from the scene of an emergency even before the emergency services arrive.

When disaster strikes, satellites can help – for example by spotting burnt areas early on and providing up-to-date maps for firefighting teams. Images from the German RapidEye satellite proved helpful ...

The DLR MACS-nano camera system installed on a drone from Quantum Systems, a cooperator since 2021 through the Live-Lage visual detection technologies research project.

DLR combines technologies from space, aviation, AI and security to cover the many aspects of modern wildfire monitoring – from global detection and drone swarms to real-time support with satellite ...