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EUGENE WP 3000 Disasters 5th GEO European
Projects Workshop (GEPW-5) London, 9 February
2011
Stella Hubert, Günter Strunz German Remote
Sensing Data Center German Aerospace Center (DLR)
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Overview

• 1. Status Quo Report
• 2. Europes Capabilities
• 3. Strategic Issues

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Status Quo Study

• User Requirements
• Analysis of requirements for Earth observation
  information relevant for disaster management
  derived from disaster related projects
• Systems and Programmes in Europe
• Description of European capabilities, including
  their structures/actors
• Structured according to disaster management
  cycle
• .. and different hazard types (e.g. Floods,
  Severe Stroms, Earthquakes, etc.)
• Overview of International Cooperations active in
  Disaster Management
• Global initiatives as well as those ones related
  to specific hazards
• Gaps, Challenges, Strengths and Opportunities
• General issues in connection to user requirements
• Hazard-specific issues

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Flood- Europe
Local level National/Regional level European
level Global level
operational service
pre-operational service
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Emergency Response
Early Warning
Preparedness-Recovery
Spatial Coverage
Projects/services
Rapid Mapping
PREVIEW, SAFER ERS
Reference Situation maps
PREVIEW, RESPOND, SAFER ERS
Plain flood risk assessment
RISK-EOS, FloodSite SAFER ERS, EFAS
Database (e.g. Post-event, river discharge)
Database (e.g. Post-event, river discharge)
EFAS, ETN-R
Plain flood Early Warning
Regional/National activities (e.g. NFFS)
Plain flood Early Warning
EFAS
Plain flood Early Warning
PREVIEW, RISK-EOS, SAFER ERS
Flash flood Service
PREVIEW, RISK-EOS SAFER ERS
Vulnerability, Risk, Loss Assessment
FLOODSITE, SAFER ERS
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Europes Capabilities

• Substantial European developments and
  contributions to GEO in the framework of GMES
• GMES Emergency Response Services are being
  developed in the context of the EU RTD framework
  programmes and ESA GMES projects. Most important
  contributions currently provided by EU FP7
  project SAFER
• Future GMES Sentinel Missions will provide
  sustainable satellite resources for the GMES
  services. Data policy for Sentinel data will be
  based on a free and open access to the data,
  which is in compliance to the GEO free and open
  data sharing principle
• Further European Services are provided on an
  operational basis e.g.
• Joint Research Centre of the European Commission,
  such as the European Flood Alert System (EFAS) or
  the European Forest Fire Information System
  (EFFIS)
• Europe is implementing the Infrastructure for
  Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) programme
  to build up standards and rules for a consistent
  geo-data infrastructure. INSPIRE sets the legal
  framework and technical implementing rules, which
  should be a basis for the GEOSS Common
  Infrastructure (GCI)

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Strategic Issues

• The coordination of services which use Earth
  observation data to provide information for
  disaster management should be improved at global
  level.
• Coordination of services and products in case of
  a major disaster
• Promote quality guidelines and standards for
  services and products
• Promote the GEO work plan by integrating European
  activities (e.g. FP7 projects) associated with
  GEO into the GEO work plan

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Strategic Issues

• The access to in-situ data and the integration
  into Disaster Management should to be
  facilitated.
• Creation of network based on the outcome of the
  GISC (GEOSS in-situ coordination) project
  currently undertaken by European Environmental
  Agency (EEA)
• Promote establishment of GEO task dedicated to
  in-situ data
• The interaction and link between forecast
  services and emergency response services should
  be improved.
• Establishment of direct links between services

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Strategic Issues

• The incorporation of INSPIRE into GEOSS Common
  Infrastructure (GCI) should be promoted.
• Promote common geo-data infrastructure based on
  INSPIRE
• Use network established by the FP7 Support Action
  GIGAS (GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES, an Action in
  Support)
• The establishment of a global early warning
  system should be promoted.
• GEO to promote this work in cooperation with
  other initiatives such as the UN
• Enlarge focus of GEO task DI-09-03 dealing with
  Warning Systems for Disasters