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.
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