DINAMIS does not currently allow for emergency responses in the same way as dedicated systems. The DINAMIS Facility does not allow users to request scheduling for a specific day, even with advance notice, although special cases may be considered by DINAMIS on an exceptional basis.
CIEST²—for Cellule d’Intervention d’Expertise Scientifique et Technique or new-generation scientific and technical expertise unit—is a project led by the FormaTerre datahub for Solid Earth obervations.
Imagery acquired through CIEST² are made available via the DINAMIS catalogue.
Research scientists studying geophysical hazards like landslides, earthquakes, volcano eruptions or glacier collapse need specific stereo and tri-stereo acquisition modes not necessarily covered by the disaster management community (i.e. the International Charter Space and Major Disasters), and they need to obtain data within days.
It can be activated:
- by a scientist at a French research laboratory that is a CIEST² member
- independently of or subsequent to an activation of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters
CNES then tasks the Pléiades satellites in urgent ‘Charter’ mode, meaning that images will be acquired systematically every day for 10 days with cloud cover filtering turned off. Acquisitions are tasked mostly in stereo mode to obtain digital surface models (DSMs). Science results are made available on the FormaTerre website.
For more information contact DINAMIS.