10-year anniversary of Copernicus Emergency Management Service

Last June, the Copernicus Emergency Management Services (CEMS) celebrated its 10th anniversary of emergency mapping, early warning tools and open-access disaster information. 
CEMS offers accurate data on forecasted and ongoing disasters through geospatial products based on satellite and ground-based measurements that forecast, monitor and analyse disasters. Its products can analyse changes to an area of Earth over a series of days, weeks, months or years: helping authorities pinpoint affected areas by identifying changes e.g. from one day to the next and enabling timely and consistent response actions.
The satellite service known as Europe’s eyes on Earth addresses disasters caused by natural hazards (floods, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, storms, droughts, etc.), as well as man-made hazards (industrial accidents, oil spills, etc.) both inside and outside of the EU. In order to address multiple hazards and different stages of the disaster risk management cycle, CEMS has multiple components.

One of them is the European and Global Flood Awareness system, which provides flood hazard and impact forecast information for Europe and the rest of the world. It addresses riverine floods as well as flash floods, while also providing continuous global flood monitoring. EFAS and GloFAS just implemented an update, which includes a new layer of monitoring disaster risk using social media data.  Other components focus on rapid mapping, risk and recovery mapping, fires (EFFIS), droughts (GDO) and human settlements (GHSL).
For more information you can follow CEMS on Twitter and check the website. You will also find more information in this news article and check the registration for the CEMS Assembly in October this year.
 

Link: https://emergency.copernicus.eu/