As Greece, Libya and Spain faced devastation, EU Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) supported disaster anticipation and response. CEMS now has improved tools...
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The landscape around the city of Bentiu in South Sudan is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. The majority of the people in South Sudan live in rural areas and rely on farming, fishing...
The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna was devastated by severe floods in May 2023, claiming lives and displacing thousands of people, resulting in an estimated €8.8 billion in damages. With the region...
The EU-funded ECFAS project aims at demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of a European Coastal Flood Awareness System. It will deliver a proof of concept that will contribute...
ECFAS builds on the CEMS framework to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a coastal flood awareness system and coast-targeted mapping products for CEMS Rapid Mapping as well as Risk and Recovery...
OBSERVER: The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) Risk and Recovery Mapping component celebrates its 10th anniversary
Since then, the service has never stopped evolving to better serve its users and has become a reference in the emergency management ecosystem.
As warmer air can hold more moisture, meteorologists were already warning earlier in the year that the extreme temperatures might result in higher than normal monsoon rains...
The European Coastal Flood Awareness System ( ECFAS) aims at creating a state-of-the-art solution to allow risk monitoring for European coastal zones.
The Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping module received five activation requests between November 2021 and March 2022 to monitor the impact of the floods on local communities.
