Optimised Near-Real Time Data Acquisition and Pre-processing of Satellite Data for Disaster Related Rapid Mapping

In its first part this paper describes exemplarily optimisations of the satellite systems RapidEye and TerraSAR-X. For this purpose a short insight into processes, relevant for data production, will be given. Focus of this will be time constraints typical for disaster related rapid mapping. Optimisations of geometric pre-processing of satellite data are described in a second part of this paper. For this purpose different software packages available for radar and optical data were compared and analysed respectively. Results were as far as possible optimised.