Emergency Response Service

•An independent earth observation system for Europe

•The largest fleet of satellites and atmosphere/earth-based monitoring instruments in the world

•An end user-focused program of services for environment and security

•Joined-up information for policymakers, scientists, businesses and the public

•Europe’s response to the global need for environment and climate monitoring

What is GMES?

What is the objective?

EARTH OBSERVINGSYSTEMS

(space, airborne, in-situ)

PUBLICPOLICIES

(Environment & Security)

Information

Needs(policy driven)

Space AgenciesIn-situ Observing systems

Scientific CommunityEO Value Adding Industry

National Governments and AgenciesEuropean Union Institutions

Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs) Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

...to provide information services to policy-makers and other users

GMES Overall View

What is their need?

InformationServices

Oil Spill Tracking

Farming Flood

Land Marine Atmosphere Emergency

Policy Makers Public&

USERS

OBSERVATION

Space Infrastructure

In Situ Infrastructure&

Air Quality

Private, Commercial&

Sustainable observation

Surveillance

Example Services Provided

Security

GMES Services

Horizontal applications

Monitoring of Earth systemsLand

Marine

Atmosphere

Security Emergency Climate

EMERGENCY

Source : world bank – University of ColumbiaSource : world bank – University of Columbia

Climate change and natural hazards:new knowledge, new uncertainties, new risks

An increased emergency response capacity is needed to copewith the effects of global changes on natural disasters

and humanitarian crisis

Source : IPCC report 2007

Increasing drought

Food security issues

Hundreds of millionsof people exposedto water stress

Increased mortalityfrom heat waves

Increased damagesfrom coastal floods

and storms

Changed distribution

of disease vectors

• Full service expected to address entire emergency cycle

• Initial scope of service: rapid mapping

Disaster Management Cycle

Emergency Response Service

• The GMES Emergency Response Service will provide reinforced European capacity to respond to emergency situations within and outside Europe

Natural disasters : floods, fires, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, storms…Man-made disasters : industrial and chemical hazardsHumanitarian crisis

Emergency Response Service• Pre-operational : on demand rapid mapping in

response to emergency situationsReference maps available within 6 hours over crisis areaDamage assessment maps available within 24 hours & daily updatedRecovery Mapping : Situation Maps, Refugee / IDP Maps

• R&D : extension of the service towards crisis prevention (hazard and risk analysis, forecasting and early warning systems/EWS) and post-crisis phase

interface with preparedness & alert systems (e.g. meteorological, hydrological, seismic EWS) as input for anticipation of activation

Users• Within Europe and outside Europe

• Civil Protection Units (national level) and the Monitoring Information Centre (European Commission/DG Environment)

• Humanitarian aid actors (Red cross, NGO, etc.)

• International organizations (UN)

• In-field operatives• Decision-makers (European DG ECHO and

RELEX, national authorities, local and regional authorities, etc.)

• Specialized service providers for downstream applications (insurance, regional planning, risk assessment, etc.)

: the link to Users

The linkER activity is a preparatory action for GMES / Kopernikus targeting the emergency responseservice (ERCS)

1. Information exchange:stimulate the dialogue among partners, users and other stakeholders by dedicated face-to-face meetings; collect, analyze, and use the gathered information relevant to ERCS activities.2. Procedural and IT development:design, implement, and validate interface and the information exchange protocols between national focal points and ERCS.3. Support to Operational Use of ERCS Products:verify the implemented interfaces and the operational use of ERCS products in real or simulated emergency situations.

Supporting:• Headquarters• Decision-makers • In-field operativesIn Europe and worldwide

GMES/ERS products in support to emergency response and early warning systems

Reference maps

Assessment maps

Thematic maps

Early warning

Pre-operational

R&D

R&D

Rapid Geographic Reference MapsCrisis Disaster Extent MapsRefugee/IDP-Maps

Forest fire – Marseille 22 July 2009

Fires, Greece – August 25, 2009

Floods, Turkey - September 9, 2009

Rapid Mapping Using Very High Resolution Sensors

Communication network

Vegetation

Buildings

Rapid mapping usingonly from Space Data

Simulation made using 22/04/2002 Quick Bird image

Image comparison =

Damage assessments with various

level

Impact Maps Using Pléiades ImagesSimulation made using Quick Bird images over Boumerdes

22/04/2002 image23/05/2003 image

Products currently under development relevant to EWS and risk assessment:

• Landslide mappingLandslide monitoring: mapping ground movements for single large landslides, using InSAR data (interferometry) and geological expertise

• Flood productsFlood risk maps based on hydraulic simulation and historical data based on RISKEOS approachPlain flood Early Warning based on EFASFlash Flood Early warning based on RISKEOS FFEW and PREVIEW, connected with meso-scale meteo forecasting

• Fire ProductsGlobal Fire Risk Index: fire danger mapping, daily deliveryFire Monitoring at Medium Resolution: NRT mapping of active fires

• Volcanoes - Earthquakes monitoring

Which products need further scientific developments ?

Landslide service1. Forecasting and Early Warning of

Shallow Rapid Slope Movements

This service delivers to the end-users: • Soil depth maps• Soil infiltration parameters maps• Vegetation indexes• Soil saturation maps• Radar rainfall maps• Self potential maps• and Safety Factor maps.

User Benefits• 1- Operational tool for activating civil protection

resources and short term countermeasures bothin early warning and crisis phases

• 2- Rapid decision support system for regional / local users able to quickly respond to crises and activate their resources.

Flood forecasting• Short-range plain flood forecasting and Risk management

Global Emergency Service Architecture

Emergency Response Service Implementation

• Pre-operational phaseESA GSE projects (Risk-EOS, Terrafirma, Respond), EC FP6 (Preview) and FP7 (SAFER) projectsOverall FP7 budget allocated to GMES: 1.2 Billion EUR (2007-2013)

• about 45% for Space infrastructure and 33% for GMES Services27 MEUR allocated to Emergency Response (SAFER project -2009-2011) and 9.6 MEUR for Security (G-MOSAIC project) services

• Operational phasePreparatory Action 2008: Link-ER project (2009-2011, 2.8 MEUR) implementing user interfaces & accompanying measuresGMES Initial Operations (2011-2013) legislative proposal under co-decision process, incl. Emergency Response services2014+: fully-fledge programme expected

• Coordination with International Charter on Disasters

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 European Space Agency projects

Floods and fires

Landslides

Humanitarian aid

European Commission Atmospheric, geophysical and man-

made disastersService sustainability

Preoperational validation

Service operations (first contracts)

RISK-EOS

TERRAFIRMA RESPOND

PREVIEW

BOSS4GMES

SAFER

Preparatory action Preparatory action

ERCS road map, heritage and schedule

Since November 2000 : International Charter

Since August 2005 : Google Earth

ERS

Conclusions• GMES aims at sustaining a European Earth observation capacity

• The GMES Emergency Service should be a flexible product available to various emergency response actors

adapted to the needs of Civil Protection Authorities within Europe and outside EuropeBe available outside Europe for the benefit of humanitarian aid interventions and crisis management operations.

• Investment is made available by the EUNeed to support the pre-operational services (R&D phase)Need to prepare the implementation of future activities within the operational service chain of authorised user authorities

• establishment of networks of focal points and associated procedures and specifications both for authorised users and service providers