Launch of R-Mode Baltic project Seafaring vessels use satellites to determine their precise position to within a few metres. It is particularly important that exact positional information is constantly available in coastal waters and ports or near offshore wind farms and oil plat...Learn more
Project launch: 'Ich entlaste Städte' (I unload cities) Despite their large potential to reduce emissions and increase transport efficiency, cargo bikes have thus far not been used to any significant extent for business purposes. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für...Learn more
From 8th to 11th of September, the Science Days Munich offered the opportunity for universities, companies and research institutes from Munich to present their work to the general public. DLR took the opportunity to exhibit a model of its Transportable Optical Ground Station (TOG...Learn more
Digital road maps are becoming increasingly important in planning and execution of operations of emergency services. In order to effectively support these operations, comprehensive editing capabilities for the digital cartographic basis were developed as part of the DLR research...Learn more
In cases of wide-area fires it is essential to precisely locate the source of fires and the directions in which they are spreading. In a joint forest fire drill in Spain together with firefighters and forest fire experts it could be demonstrated under realistic operating conditio...Learn more
The new Crisis Management System PHAROS was successfully tested under realistic conditions during a wildfire exercise conducted from the 2nd to the 4th of March 2016 jointly with Catalan firefighters and wildfire experts. During the exercise multiple prescribed fires were set and...Learn more
Today, fast, efficient and safe exchange of information globally is considered to be indispensable, but so far full protection against unauthorized access has been something to dream about rather than a reality. This is because even the most sophisticated encryption can be cracke...Learn more
Among other things, the current activities in VABENE++ include a study of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs; see Fig. 1) for potential applications in disaster relief and monitoring of large events. Fig. 1: Image of a Quadrotos MAV as they are used at the Insititute of Communications a...Learn more
