SAFER anticipates production of geo information for risky areas
The SAFER project (which is responsible for the implementation of pre-operational emergency response service of GMES) is creating an archive of mapping products of hotspots, where the risk of potential natural disasters is high. The advantage of creating maps in advance of a real crisis is that products with higher accuracy, associated with a more rigorous and less time dependent process, can be delivered rapidly as a response to a disaster. This strategy has proved to be very effective in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, where maps of Myanmar had been produced a few months before the disaster and were distributed immediately after it.
Hotspot areas have been identified from a number of different sources, but only on a large regional scale. Therefore further refinement is needed to determine priority areas as required by the user community. SAFER is thus looking to different agencies and organisations to provide their priority areas in order to use the mapping capacity of the project most effectively.
More information at:
http://www.emergencyresponse.eu/site/docs_wsw/RUB_30/Hotspot%20Mapping%20Areas1.pdf