Partners

The DLR Maritime Safety and Security Lab in Bremen develops algorithms that extract information on the condition of the oceans derived from radar images collected by a variety of satellites while Neustrelitz develops the framework to process the data fully automated. This makes available final ocean products to users in near-real-time.

König und Partner Fernerkundung GbR (K&P) is a start-up company founded in January 2018. The goal of the foundation was to improve a sea ice algorithm which had been developed by the founders over many years on the basis of NOAA-AVHRR satellite data and was now to be transferred to the data of the new SLSTR instrument on board the Sentinel-3 satellites. K&P is located in the greater Munich area, Germany.

O.A.Sys - Ocean Atmosphere Systems is a scientific and consulting company working with a wide range of numerical and analytical tools in the field of Earth System Modeling. Michael Karcher, Frank Kauker and Reiner Schnur are the partner and senior scientists in the O.A.Sys team. Each one has more than twenty five years of experience in numerical modelling and analysis of parts of the climate system system gained as researchers in renowned scientific institutions like the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven.

www.inversion-lab.com

Drift+Noise Polar Services is a spin-off from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, was founded by a team of professionals with more than 15 years of experience operating in the polar regions, geophysical exploration of sea ice, and software development, and receives support from the ESA business incubation centre Northern Germany. The core team consists of researchers at heart but also innovative software developers who know first-hand what it takes to navigate remote, ice-laden polar regions.