Copernicus Emergency Management Service¶
The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) is designed to support Disaster Risk Management (DRM) regarding natural and man-made disasters both during the emergency response phase and outside. It consists of geoinformation products and services to better understand and manage disaster risks and is provided by the European Union's Earth Observation Program, Copernicus. The Copernicus EMS involves the implementation of different components, each having several modules:
CEMS Mapping including Rapid Mapping; Copernicus Risk and Recovery Mapping (CEMS RRM); Validation; Aerial component. The Rapid Mapping service and the Risk and Recovery Mapping are both EO based services.
Early Warning and Monitoring with both EU wide and global services with monitoring and forecasting components. For instance, the European Drought Observatory (EDO) is continuously extended to the global scale (GDO for droughts); the same applies concerning Flooding and Forest Fires (GloFAS for floods, GWIS for forest fires).
Exposure Mapping service; the goal is the periodic production of global geospatial information on human settlements in the form of built-up area grids.
National Disaster Management Authorities (NDMAs i.e. user organisations with a mandate concerning DRM) are the primary requesters of the Copernicus EMS services. NDMAs from outside Europe are able to activate the Copernicus EMS through the Emergency Response Coordination Centre of the European Union (ERCC, https://erccportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/).