SAFER is the EU-funded project responsible for the development of the pre-operational GMES emergency management service.
SAFER reinforces the European capacity to respond to emergency situations such as fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides or humanitarian crisis. A priority of the project is to provide rapid mapping (reference maps and assessment maps) during the response phase. SAFER also considers the extension of the use of its products to early warning (before the emergency situation occurs) and to reconstruction (after the emergency situation has occurred).
Recent Achievements
Examples of achievements of the project, including the provision of rapid mapping products in case of natural or man-made disaster, are provided below:
- Fires in Romania (November 2011)
- Floods in France (November 2011)
- Fires in La Réunion (October 2011)
- Earthquake in Turkey (October 2011)
- Floods in Cambodia (October 2011)
- Floods in Algeria (October 2011)
- Fires in Bulgaria (September 2011)
- Floods in Pakistan (September 2011)
- Final version of the Emergency Response Service (September 2011)
- Forest Fires in Greece (August 2011)
- Famine in the Horn of Africa (July - August 2011)
- Heath Fires in Netherlands (April 2011)
- Forest Fires in Belgium (April 2011)
- Forest Fires in Bulgaria (April 2011)
- Civil Unrest in Lybia (February 2011)
- Earthquake in New Zealand (February 2011)
- Oil spill in Norway (February 2011)
- Floods in Madagascar (February 2011)
- Floods in Germany (January 2011)
- Floods in Belgium (January 2011)
- Earthquake in Iran (December 2010)
- Floods in Albania (December 2010)
- Fire in Israel (December 2010)
- Floods in Croatia (December 2010)
- Forest Fires in Bulgaria (November 2010)
- SIMSICA Exercise (November 2010)
- Mud Pollution in Hungary (October 2010)
- Floods in Croatia and Slovenia (September 2010)
- Floods in Pakistan (July - August 2010)
- Floods in Romania (June - July 2010)
- Floods on the River Oder (May 2010)
- Floods in Poland (May 2010)
- Floods in Sri Lanka (May 2010)
- Earthquake in China (April 2010)
- Floods in India and Bangladesh (April 2010)
- Earthquake in Haiti (January 2010)
In June 2010, SAFER participated in a exercise for European civil protection authorities (EU Command Post 2010).
In April 2010, SAFER contributed to the monitoring of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano.
More information on the above examples can be found directly on the SAFER website.