#InternationalFirefightersDay 🔥
Today we celebrate the firefighting community and their dedication to their work👨🚒👩🚒
Since 2012, the #CopernicusEmergency Management Service has been privileged to support early warning and emergency response efforts around the world 🌎
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The University of Arizona has conducted a study comparing different approaches using #Sentinel1 🛰️ data to accurately map the floods in #Bangladesh 🇧🇩 during May & June 2022
➡️Our #GFM tool was one of the methods evaluated🌊
More at👇
global-flood.emergency.copernicus.eu/get-involved/e…
📢The EU_ScienceHub has released a 🆕 report outlining how their research positively impacts society
It also highlights the role of the #CopernicusEmergency Management Service in supporting the preparedness, response, and recovery activities related to disaster events 🌊🔥🚱🏚️
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At our Global Floods Annual Meeting, eiLabPolimi 🇮🇹 presented the PrintFloods project
They aim to deliver improved #flood hazard maps by leveraging our #GloFAS 🌊 products and Deep Learning algorithms
Read more 👇
global-flood.emergency.copernicus.eu/get-involved/e…
During the #WildfireCrisis of Summer 2022, in Europe
➡️more than 500,000 ha📈burnt ( #CopernicusEmergency Management Service data)🔗effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu
➡️related carbon emissions reached the highest values🔝since 2007 ( #CopernicusAtmosphere data)🔗atmosphere.copernicus.eu/europes-summer…
#EMSN167
In September 2023, the Risk & Recovery Mapping component of our #CopernicusEmergency Management service was activated to provide post-event damage assessment for the #wildfire 🔥 which affected the Sterea Ellada region ( #Greece 🇬🇷)
Read more at emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/list-o…
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Our #GFM database provides historical flood data to help understand past flood events & identify flood prone areas 🌊
ANA Oficial 🇧🇷 has used this information to support the update of their #Flood Vulnerability Atlas
More👇
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JBA Consulting has integrated our #GloFAS data into their #Flood Foresight Model 🌊
Using the 2022 #Pakistan floods case study, they are assessing the model's potential to support disaster risk financing
More at 👇
global-flood.emergency.copernicus.eu/get-involved/e…
Copernicus EU Copernicus EMS CzechSpacePortal Evropská komise v ČR Ondrej Svab 🇪🇺 EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme Rodrigo da Costa Czechia in the EU Evropský parlament v Česku Karel Dobeš United Nations Thank you, dear Copernicus EU 🛰️🇪🇺 for using #OpenData on #Prague 🇨🇿 example!
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#Climatechange #globalwarming #wildfires Prevention better than ex post action/remediation. There is no sufficient #antifire capacity; extremely hot summer with simultaneous fires in the EU. We need full EU civil protection, prevention & anti-fire capacity #Copernicusemergency
EU Humanitarian Aid | Central East Southern Africa EU Delegation to Zimbabwe 🇪🇺 OCHA Southern & Eastern Africa EU in Namibia WFP Africa BBC News Africa GMES, and Africa Sofia Christensen EU_ScienceHub UN Climate Change More in the latest #CopernicusEmergency Management Service Global Drought Observatory ( #GDO ) Report 👇
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