A year after the fish die-off on the Oder, the next environmental catastrophe is looming. “In some places the warning system is red again,” says Thomas Heege, whose company monitors the river via satellite.
Thomas Heege is a physicist and managing director of the company EOMAP, which uses remote sensing to check the quality of water. Using the data from mini-satellites that fly over every spot on earth once a day, EOMAP was able to precisely reconstruct the environmental catastrophe along the Oder last summer. Based on a small amount of measurement data that is updated daily, EOMAP has developed a warning system to prevent another fish kill along the river. If it were politically desired.