Copernicus Emergency Management Service Mapping Fahd Benatia, Remote sensing engineer, ICube-SERTIT

1. Emergency Management
Fahd Benatia
ICube – SERTIT
EENA 2018 Conference – Ljubljana
C o p e r n i c u s E M S
E m e r g e n c y M a n a g e m e n t
S e r v i c e
M a p p i n g c o m p o n e n t

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C o p e r n i c u s E M S m a p p i n g
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Copernicus is the European Union's Earth Observation
Programme, looking at our planet and its environment for the
ultimate benefit of all European citizens. It offers information
services based on satellite Earth Observation and in situ (non-
space) data.

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Management
C o p e r n i c u s E M S - C o m p o n e n t s
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Multilingual support is available, translate
relevant cartographic elements of the maps in
official EU languages

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Management
5%
12%
39%9%
9%
2%
20%
3%
C o p e r n i c u s E M S 2 0 1 2 - 2 0 1 7 p r o d u c t i o n
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Floods
Fires
Earthquakes
Landslides
Other urgent
events
Hurricanes
Conflicts
Industrial
accidents
Volcano eruptions
Tsunami
+240 RM and RRM
ACTIVATIONS

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Management
C o p e r n i c u s E M S – R a p i d m a p p i n g
Service specifications
• 24/7/365
• On-demand
• Standardized workflow & products
• Uses dedicated mechanisms for rapid tasking & delivery of satellite images
• Delivery of products in hours/days
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C o p e r n i c u s E M S – R a p i d m a p p i n g
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Flood Alcala de Ebro – Spain
18/04/2018

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Management
C o p e r n i c u s E M S – R a p i d m a p p i n g
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Earthquake – Amatrice (Italy)
25/08/2016

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Management
C o p e r n i c u s E M S – R a p i d m a p p i n g
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Wildfire Mira –
Portugal 17/10/2017

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Management
C o p e r n i c u s E M S – R a p i d M a p p i n g w o r k f l o w
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Member States
Civil Protections
(Authorized User)
ERCC
Copernicus EMS RM
Consortium
(Management)
Copernicus EMS RM
Consortium (Production)
ESA & Satellite
Operators
RM request
Service activation
Satellite data request
Satellite data delivery

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Management
H o w y o u c a n g e t t h e p r o d u c t s ?
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http://emergency.copernicus.eu/
Copernicus EMS portal
dedicated sftp site for the
Authorized User

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Management
W h a t y o u c a n g e t c o n c r e t e l y ?
Supporting tools
• Email alerts about new activations for the Authorized User
• GeoRSS feeds for activations alerts and Map Delivery alerts
• Map of Activations of EMS and Other Organizations (Mechanisms)
• Map Coverage Planner
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Available for downloads
• Raster products (maps), in different formats and
resolution
• Zipped vector packages, shp, kml

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Management
T i m e i s c r i t i c a l !
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Management
C a p a b i l i t i e s a n d l i m i t a t i o n s
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• world‐wide coverage
• high temporal coverage
• detailed as well as large area analysis
possible
• remote sensing sensors detect
wavelengths beyond the capabilities
of the human eye
• observations independent from
cloud coverage and sun illumination
(radar‐sensors)
• combination / synergy of different
sensors
• can support all phases of the crisis
and disaster cycle
• limited availability of satellite
imagery within certain time
frames/response time (new
acquisitions)
• weather constraints for optical
data (clouds, haze, etc.)
• spatial resolution versus large
area coverage
More data are coming up thanks to satellite constellations, web/social
media, crowd sources

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Ambitions of the project
▪Improve the response time
▪Avoid weather constraint
▪Early warning
▪New products
▪Larger insights
Evolution of the Copernicus EMS
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E2MC: Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services
H2020 project (Grant Agreement No. 730082)
Integration of social media analysis and crowd source
information
Improve the timeliness and accuracy of the
geospatial information
Leaded by e-Geos (leader of the Copernicus EMS
consortium)
Evolution of the Copernicus EMS
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Work in progress
Project ends in october
2018
Promising results!
Evolution of the Copernicus EMS
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Evolution of the Copernicus EMS
South England
flood 2014 on
the Witness
platform
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Evolution of the Copernicus EMS
Hurricane Harvey
Texas 2017 on the
Witness platform
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E2MC first results
Quality of the Witness
platform outputs
Images relevancy – South England 2014
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E2MC first results
Turn social media into actionable insight for crisis management
Heatmaps from tweets
South England 2014
Hurricane Harvey Texas 2017
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E2MC first results
Houston I-45 flooded
Railway lines surrounded by
floodwaters near Sandy Point
Impact map based
on geolocated
tweets images
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E2MC first results
Impact map based
on geolocated
UAV footage
extracted from
tweets
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Management
C o n c l u s i o n s
Copernicus EMS :
• Rapid mapping: 24/7 crisis management response based on satellite
data
• Risk and recovery: on demande tailored analysis for prevention,
preparedness, disaster risk reduction and recovery phases (Production
delay: 1 months)
• Early warning: EFFIS (fire monitoring) and EFAS (flood monitoring)
E2MC: integrating social media information content and crowd
resources in Copernicus EMS services
• Improving EMS maps timeliness
• Delivering new products and improving existing ones
• Reaching and interacting with new stakeholders
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To learn more visit:
• http://www.copernicus.eu/
• http://emergency.copernicus.eu/
• https://www.e2mc-project.eu/
Contact:
Fahd Benatia fbenatia@unistra.fr
Sergio Proietti sergio.proietti@e-geos.it
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