What the contract covers
ICEYE and the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences have announced a contract under which ICEYE will supply flood, wildfire and river ice monitoring to Civil Security Hub Poland, the country's node in the European Space Agency's Space Resilience Nodes initiative, ICEYE said. The agreement places the hub on a subscription footing, giving it standing access to the disaster monitoring instead of requiring the services to be switched on separately for each event. It sits under ESA's European Resilience from Space for Earth Observation initiative.
Flood tools and timings
ICEYE will deliver its Flood Solutions Suite to the hub. Flood Early Warning forecasts large-scale flooding up to four days ahead; Flood Rapid Impact maps flood extent within hours and can refresh as often as every three hours as an event develops; Flood Insights supplies observed data on extent, water depth and building-level impacts within 24 hours of a flood's peak, with daily updates.
Fire and river ice
A wildfire pilot service combines OroraTech's thermal detection capabilities with radar and optical satellite data to track active fires, assess building damage through smoke and darkness, and map burned area once a fire is out. For winter and spring, ICEYE will provide a river ice monitoring service for validation in Poland, tracking ice formation and movement to give authorities earlier sight of conditions that can feed ice-jam flooding.
Earlier use during Storm Boris
The contract follows earlier work between ICEYE, CBK PAN and ESA, including support during Storm Boris in September 2024, when ICEYE delivered flood data every 24 hours to the Crisis Information Centre, which passed it to the State Fire Service, regional and local crisis management teams and hydrological services. The centre said Flood Rapid Impact was the main source of flood information during the first four days of that event. Jakub Ryzenko, head of Civil Security Hub Poland and of the centre, said flood data reached partners within hours in the first critical days, and that the services now available through the hub can be offered to the fire service, regional crisis teams and hydrological services before, during and after an event. Under the agreement, Polish node teams can support partner countries on request, the release says.
