Update GMES & floods Arno KASCHL DG Environment 16 February 2011

GMES – Global Monitoring for Environment & Security

>>> 6 GMES Services Horizontal applications Monitoring of the Earth system Land Marine Atmosphere SecurityEmergencyClimate Services provide information products (e.g. maps, datasets, gridded fields, assessment reports, targeted alerts, etc.)

GMES state of play GMES Regulation (EU No. 911/2010) has entered into force 9 November 2010!  establishes a Programme, envisaging long-term  gives money for Operations („GMES initial operations“ ), on top of research!  open data policy for Sentinel satellites & where EU is owner  Establishes User Forum This is a game changer, away from R&D, towards operational services & products!

Source: BICEPS report, 2004

Some relevant products for floods, e.g. Prep action on reference data Tender 2009 (€2 MIO) in support of land monitoring/emergency services: (1)DEM over Europe: 38 countries, 1 arcsec horizontal resolution, average 5 m vertical resolution freely accessible! (2) Hydrographic layer: homogeneous European wide coverage of a hydrographical network that is fully connected, geometrical accuracy consistent with the resolution scale (1: to 1: range) based on ECRINS, and CCM (JRC), basins from km2 (100 km2 on average), incorporated lakes and dams  A step towards integration of various existing datasets and convergence to single reference at EU level enables considerable improvement of spatial modelling for Community environmental policies  MS reporting under WFD directive in WISE DEM: commercial product NEXTmap Europe 1m vertical resolution

Some relevant products for floods, e.g. Initial operations Land Monitoring Pan-European Land Cover services (€17 MIO, )  to produce up to 5 High Resolution layers of dominant land-cover classes EEA39 (wall to wall coverage) Spatial resolution 20x20m, MMU 1 ha  „Imperviousness“: sealing density, builtup areas (change)  Forests: cover, type, crown density  Small Waterbodies  Wetlands: RAMSAR def., pressures/changes  Grasslands: natural/cultivated  intensity/dynamics  to ensure the continuity of CORINE Land Cover time series; and  to support the harmonisation effort of MS for aggregating their national products at European level

300+ larger urban zones, CORINE classes  Repeat of 2009 exercise in 2012 in addition, further action on biodiversity-relevant zones envisaged (up to €3MIO) Some relevant products for floods, e.g. URBAN ATLAS „Zooming on hotspot areas“ Ca. 50x50 km Based on multispectral VHR 2.5m satellite data MMU = 0.25ha Positional Accurarcy: 5m €3 MIO

GMES Urban Atlas free access (visualisation + download) GMES & INSPIRE - Krakow, INSPIRE-2010 / EuroGEOSS, 23 June 2010

Some relevant products for floods, e.g. SAFER project

Some relevant products for floods, e.g. emergency actions in initial operations €12 MIO (1)“SAFER follow on” (i) emergency response maps (rush mode  impact, damage, follow evolution of disaster in the hours and days after the crisis (ii) geographic reference maps, basic topographic on area, especially infrastructure (2) Prevention (EWS):Contribution to EFAS (European Flood Alert System) (i) Twice-daily pan-European flood forecasts provided to MS national and regional hydrological services, and the European Commission (ii) A daily updated pan-European overview at low scale of ongoing floods available on a public website

User Involvement in GMES  User Forum In the past, GMES mostly provider-driven. New framework enables to better bring in users! Need to make user needs of particular communities clear -> YOU!  „User Forum“ in GMES Regulation  advises EC on defining and validating user requirements  a focus on public users  on a thematic basis (Land monitoring, Atmosphere, Marine,..)  thematic facilitators such as ENV, EEA (plus EIONET) to help consultation process  and national processes to underpin the User Forum Provide feedback! GET INVOLVED! Make your needs e.g. for reporting known!  Either directly to us  Or to GMES coordinator Or GMES User Forum representative in your country  First PREPARATORY WORKSHOP for USER FORUM LAND, 9 March, you are invited!  First „official“ USER FORUM in May 2011