French earthquake fault mapped
Rapid processing and exchange of information within the geohazards community thanks to GEP thematic exploitation platform. Read the full story about the French earthquake case.
Tag: disaster risk
GeoHazards Exploitation Platform (G-TEP)
The G-TEP platform is based upon virtualisation & federation of satellite EO data and methods with the aim to provide innovative responses to the needs of the geohazards community. It provides on-demand and systematic processing services for specific user community needs through advanced services available for both Optical & SAR data, connecting to massive compute power on multi-tenant Cloud Computing resources, to address the challenges …
IV ESA EARSEL CNR School: Remote Sensing for Forest Fires
Educational materials from the IV ESA EARSEL CNR School: Remote Sensing for Forest Fires held in Rome, Italy, on 3-5 October 2019. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link. Introduction to ESA EO Programme and to ESA CCI Programme in the context of Fire (Stephen …
Global fires in 2019
The active fire detection capability of the SLST sensor on board of the Copernicus constellation of Sentinel 3A and Sentinel 3B is being exploited by the European Space Agency to derive systematic consistent counting of fires worldwide. The prototype product and algorithm have been presented at the Remote sensing of forest fire EARSeL conference in …
IV ESA EARSEL CNR School: Remote Sensing for Forest Fires
September 30 - October 1
ESA-ESRIN,
Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy
ESA, CNR and EARSeL organised a course dedicated to exploiting data from active and passive Earth Observation sensors for applications related to forest fires, and to discuss relevant research methods and technologies. The course was held on the occasion of the workshop “12th EARSeL Forest Fires SIG Workshop” (3-5 October 2019, Rome, Italy). The programme …
EO4SD – DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Prime company: INDRA SISTEMAS (ES)The ESA EO4SD Disaster Risk Reduction project aims to promote the adoption of Earth Observation-based products and services mainstreamed into the working processes of IFIs funded projects that seek to prevent or mitigate the adverse impacts of natural disasters in developing countries. Earth Observation applied to disasters is evolving quickly and has proven to be …
Mapping the faults of 2019 California earthquakes jointly using the Copernicus Sentinel 1 & 2 missions
A strong earthquake of Mw 7.1 struck southern California, United States on July 6, 2019 preceded by another earthquake of Mw 6.4 on July 4. This was the strongest earthquake in California since the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake. The earthquake sequence took place on a remote and sparsely inhabited area of California, limiting …
Stromboli: interesting hints from Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas data
A series of violent and harmful explosions occurred on 3 July afternoon at Stromboli volcano, causing one dead. Glowing hot bombs and lapilli were ejected from all over the summit area and produced an eruption column that rose approx. 3-5 km. A series of fires were caused by the hot debris falling back in the …
Mapping and characterization of unstable slopes with Sentinel-1 multigeometry InSAR
Prime company: NORTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NORUT) (NO)Being a mountainous country, with long fjords and steep valley sides, Norway is particularly susceptible to large rock avalanches. In the last 100 years, over 170 people have been killed by tsunamis in fjords caused by large rock avalanches. In each case, the rock avalanche was preceded by many years of slow movement, with acceleration …
Flood disaster risk financing: e-Drift services
The demand The frequency and impact of disasters continues to rise, calling for effective disaster risk management and innovative risk financing solutions. Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) can increase the ability of national and local governments, homeowners, businesses, agricultural producers, and low-income populations to respond more quickly and resiliently to disasters by strengthening public financial management …