Copernicus Emergency Management Service
The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) provides products based on satellite imagery and corresponding analyses in all phases of the crisis management cycle, i.e. before, during and after a crisis, on demand and free of charge. These products (maps and analyses) can be requested by authorised users for any region worldwide on various topics, e.g. in acute disaster situations caused by floods, storms, earthquakes, forest fires, landslides or humanitarian crises. The DLR-ZKI helped design the Copernicus EMS between 2006 and 2019 and contributed operational crisis information.
In Germany, the Joint Federal and State Reporting and Situation Centre (GMLZ) at the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) is the authorised user for requesting EMS products. The GMLZ clarifies the possibilities and limits for product requests, bundles and forwards activation requests to the EMS to the European Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC).
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