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Topic · KRITIS operatorsAs of October 2026

What happens around your site.

Substation, waterworks, hospital or radio mast: whoever is responsible for supply needs the site's surroundings in view, from the terrain through the airspace to the weather. SovAtlas puts it into one picture, on maps that only those who should see them can see.

For:Energy and waterHospitalsTelecommunicationsSecurity and crisis team

The film circles a hospital with the surrounding buildings in the colour of their sector, approaches a city with coloured critical infrastructure, shows drone geo-zones as volumes above the terrain, a map of disrupted satellite positioning, the viewshed from a hill and a raised water level in a river valley.

  1. Who lives and works around it? Surroundings of a hospital by sector
  2. What is critical in the surroundings. Colouring by sector
  3. The airspace above the site. Drone geo-zones as volumes
  4. Where satellite positioning is disrupted. GPS interference
  5. From where can the site be seen? Viewshed over terrain
  6. What if the water rises? Water level as a horizontal surface

Trailer, 38 seconds: the surroundings of a hospital, buildings by sector, drone geo-zones, GPS interference, a viewshed and a water level. All footage taken from the product.

Who it is for

One site, four perspectives.

Site security, crisis team, operations and management ask about the same place, with different questions. The German KRITIS umbrella act requires operators to carry out risk analysis, keep a resilience plan and report incidents.

  • Site security

    Know the surroundings

    • Drone geo-zones, reported aircraft and disrupted satellite positioning above the site.
    • The viewshed: from where the site can be seen.
    • Access roads, terrain and buildings in 3D.

    KRITIS umbrella act: monitoring the surroundings as a resilience measure

  • Crisis team

    Who is affected?

    • Hospitals, care homes, schools and water facilities in the surroundings.
    • Residents in the 100-metre grid of the 2022 census.
    • Official warnings and DWD weather on the same map.

    Incident reports with the affected area

  • Operations

    Risks with a place

    • Flood zones and a water level to play through.
    • Drinking water and medicinal spring protection zones.
    • Terrain, slope and forest in the surroundings.

    Risk analysis on site instead of in a spreadsheet

  • Plan and exercise

    Turning the picture into a plan

    • Crisis plans following BSI Standard 200-4 with KRITISplan.
    • Five phases, seven mandatory details per measure.
    • Exercises on the same scenario, with the municipality and fire brigade.

    Resilience plan and exercises

Scene 01 · Surroundingsregional today

Which buildings in the surroundings are critical themselves?

Orbit around a hospital: schools, nurseries and utilities nearby, coloured by sector.

What you see

Buildings carry the colour of their critical infrastructure sector, derived from their use in the cadastre: health, supply, safety and rescue, education and care, and state and administration.

What it gives you

One look shows which hospital, school or supply facility sits next to the site and how many people live around it.

On the map today

  • Buildings coloured by sector, function from the cadastre on click
  • Population grid of the 2022 census

Next, together with you

  • Your sites and protection zones as a protected layer
  • Assembly points and access routes from your plan in the same picture

Facilities from the cadastre and open data; the map does not calculate dependencies between sites.

Scene 02 · Airspaceacross Germany

What is in the air above the site?

Drone zones above the site, each with its altitude band.

What you see

Above the site, the drone geo-zones stand as volumes, each with its altitude band and legal basis on click. Reported air traffic and satellite positioning interference are added.

What it gives you

Site security and crisis team see which rules apply above the site, where reported aircraft are flying and where positioning is disrupted.

On the map today

  • Drone geo-zones with the legal basis on click
  • Reported aircraft and GPS interference

Next, together with you

  • Your protection zones and restricted areas as a layer of their own

The map does not see drones.

Scene 03 · View

From where can the terrain be seen?

Example: what can be seen across the valley from a hill.

What you see

From a point on the ground or on a roof, the viewshed shows which areas around it can be seen; the observer stands at 2 to 500 metres.

What it gives you

A pre-selection for searches, site security and site planning: which hill, which roof and which road have a view of the site.

On the map today

  • Viewshed over terrain and buildings, from the ground or from a roof

Next, together with you

  • Viewsheds of your cameras and masts as a layer

The viewshed accounts for terrain and buildings, not vegetation.

Scene 04 · Floodingregional today

Does the site lie by the water, and what if it rises?

A river valley in a scenario: the water level is raised metre by metre.

What you see

Designated and provisionally secured flood zones lie over the buildings; an assumed water level can be raised as a horizontal surface.

What it gives you

Preparedness with a picture: which site, which hospital and which waterworks lie in the same valley, and where emergency power or an alternative route should be prepared.

On the map today

  • Flood zones and the water level to play through
  • Official warnings across Germany

Next, together with you

  • Your sites within flood zones as a list
  • Gauges of your region in the same picture

The water level is a scenario, not a forecast; the map does not compute water depth.

Your data

Protected layers stay protected.

SovAtlas shows the power grid and critical infrastructure layers on protected maps only, behind a password or personal access link. The database allows no other assignment, for any role.

  1. Your layersSites, protection zones, access routes, assembly points, your documents per building
  2. SurroundingsHospitals, schools, care homes, water facilities, population grid
  3. AirspaceDrone geo-zones, air traffic, GPS interference
  4. RisksFlood zones, protected areas, official warnings, weather
  5. Buildings3D buildings with height and function from the cadastre
  6. GroundTerrain, aerial imagery, parcels

On the map today

  • Access per map via password or an individually revocable personal access link.
  • Write access only with a second factor; every change is logged with person and time.
  • Documents per building: data sheet, photo, video or your specialist application, opened with one click.

Next, together with you

  • Your sites and specialist data as a protected layer, from your GIS via WMS or WFS.
  • One map per task: site security, crisis team, management.
  • Exercises on the same scenario with KRITISplan.

Getting started

What getting started looks like.

We show you your site in one picture, around your questions.

  1. 01

    Demo

    One hour, your site: surroundings, airspace, terrain and warnings, on a protected map.

    No preparation

  2. 02

    Pilot project

    A protected map for your sites with your first data; defined scope, defined term.

    Site security or crisis team

  3. 03

    Plan and exercise

    The crisis plan for the same scenario with KRITISplan, following BSI Standard 200-4, and an exercise on it.

    With municipality and fire brigade

Documents

To take away and pass on.

  • PDF · 2 pages

    Topic sheet: KRITIS operators

    Two pages to pass on: surroundings, airspace, view and flooding with examples from the product, plus how to get started.

  • PDF · 12 pages · German · on request

    Paper “Energy in one picture”

    For energy and water utilities: grid, installations, flooding and critical infrastructure on twelve pages, with examples from the product. We are happy to send it to you.

Enquiry

Which site should we show you?

In a demo we show SovAtlas on your site, on a protected map, using the data already available there.