Oil spills can have a devastating and destructive impact on the oceans and marine wildlife, having been a major concern in the marine world for years. Copernicus offers real-time monitoring of oil spills from space. Read More
Space data applications for disaster and emergency management
2021 looks to be a record year for wildfire in Europe, at least if you look at it through the lens of Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) Rapid Mapping Activations. Between January and August 2021 the service Read More
A new and better way to detect floods just got off the ground. An innovative artificial intelligence model, called “Worldfloods”, can relay flood information from space to disaster response teams below. Deployed on hardware as Read More
After three activations for floods in north western Europe in two days in July, the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) Rapid Mapping service was activated for wildfires twelve times in the last three weeks. These Read More
Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping has reached the 100th activation milestone. Embedded in these 100 activations, the service, operational for more than eight years, has delivered more than 700 products (712 as of 01/07/2021) related to disaster Read More
Mediterranean region evolves into wildfire hotspot, while fire intensity reaches new records in Turkey The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service is observing closely the wildfire activities in the eastern Mediterranean region. In Turkey Read More
In the course of the last two weeks the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) was activated several times for floods in the Rhine and Maas basins. In a series of four activations, the emergency satellite Read More
“All CO2 emissions to date may already lead to a warming of more than 2 degrees”, a new study shows. “Future emissions are added to that. Such a high level of warming has major consequences for Read More
