Germany: use of EMS rush mode Dr. Michael Judex Federal office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance Workshop on the use of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service for Floods
>150.000 relief workers 80.400 people evacuated Billions of damage Aerial imagery of Deggendorf, Donau from 05.06.2013, DLR/ZKI on behalf of BMI/BBK
Activation of EMS Begin of activity at national level: 01.06. Activation 044: 03.06. Activation 047: 18.06. Duration of product delivery (first crisis product) Activation 044: 42:53 Activation 047: 32:13
Used mechanisms COPERNICUS EMS National Service ZKI-DE International Charter
Joint Information and Situation Center Overall coordination at GMLZ (AU) Managing requests from Regions (Länder) Allocate requests to services Continuous support to GMLZ by geo information specialist Workflow EMS activation (re)definition of AOIs and map scale takes additional time Confirmation ok, status updates could be more structured (e.g. table)
Usage of satellite based products Situational awareness at national and regional level Briefing of high level crisis management Vector data used by many other authorities to assess possible impacts to Forest Cultural heritage food processing units radio transmitter Documenting the event Support for applications for financial aid Possible, but no confirmed information: Local and in-field usage
Timeliness of information Remote sensing information high real time (time lag: minutes) very high resolution (cm) near real time (time lag < 2 hrs) high resolution (< 5m) low Local incident management High level crisis management group all type of RS information including long term perspectives Level of administration
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/hochwasser-satellitenbilder-aus-dem-krisengebiet-fotostrecke-97687-3.html http://www.br.de/themen/wissen/dlr-hochwasser-bilder-luft-100~_image-5_-9c6161500b35e0212ab78451135c1de70c63511f.html http://www.bmvbs.de/shareddocs/de/artikel/ir/ramsauer-hochwasser-magdeburg.html
EMS PRODUCTS
Activation 047: Fischbeck Clouds explained? Margin: no relevant information I know! Mismatch of admin. boundaries; do not fit to scale Better: only one outline for settlements
Detail Representation of built up areas and industry difficult to read Color not in legend Inundated commercial area
Detail
Legend Date satellite image Distinction not necessary What s that? - Results are calculated for AOI, better is per admin. unit - Data source?
Vector data: datasources?
Supporting text
Date satellite image Distinction not necessary Activation 044: Riesa Can t find them.. Different color, different label! One outline, much better GeoPDF: crisis layer merged with background image!
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS ZKI-DE
Simple satellite images
Affected roads
Changes of inundated areas
Overview maps
Aerial imagery and webgis
FURTHER REMOTE SENSING ACTIVITIES
High quality aerial imagery Aerial image, 07.06. EMS flood layer, 05.06. BfG, EC, ESRI,
Take home message Advantage of EMS: surprisingly fast, but still not matching user needs established data procurement scheme free of charge for users Advantage of ZKI-DE German products and SP! very flexible, following ad-hoc user needs better cartography very fast data processing and analysis
Take home message Cooperation between COPERNICUS and Int. CHARTER should be enforced National service ready and available Remote sensing products have been requested by many users
Thank you for your attention! Dr. Michael Judex Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) Basics of crisis management Provinzialstraße 93 D-53127 Bonn Tel.: ++49/(0) 228/99 550 25 02 Mail: michael.judex (at) bbk.bund.de