THE COPERNICUS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICE(2019) MONITORS IMPACT OF FLOODS IN IRAN
11/04/2019
EMSR352 Flood in Iran
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Copernicus Support Office
Between mid-March and April 2019 deadly flooding affected large parts of Iran, with the areas of Golestan, Fars, Khuzestan, and Lorestan being the most severely impacted. Repeated heavy rainfall has caused widespread destruction in these areas and the flooding is now expected to move downstream towards the Khozestan region.
According to the ECHO Daily Flash of 10 April, 70 fatalities have been recorded, 2 million people require assistance and at least 500,000 people have been displaced. Local media reports state that a risk of further flooding remains, due to dams in the Khuzestan province reaching their maximum capacity. Although the dams’ emergency discharges have already been opened, flooding agricultural land, the situation remains critical. On 8 April, Iran issued an official request for assistance through the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism and the European Commission has announced that it will provide EUR 1.2 million in humanitarian aid to support the response.
The Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping module was activated on 9 April to provide flood extent maps for an area of 35,000 km 2 . For the first time, this information was delivered by the “first estimate product”, an additional Rapid Mapping product available since 1 April and aims at providing a rough estimation of the disaster impacts within 2 hours from image reception. The delineation map, released shortly after, and is based on satellite imagery acquired on 8 April 02:45 UTC, shows a total flooded area of over 586,000 ha (5,860 km 2 ) and that approximately 69,100 people were affected. Since the region is a very vast flat basin where fast changes can occur, flood monitoring is planned for the next few days. In addition, more detailed assessments (including damage evaluations) will be done over populated areas.
The maps and vector data are available for viewing and download on the EMS Website: EMSR352: Flood in Iran.
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The delineation map of Ahvaz showing 586,065 ha (5,860.7 km2 ) of the area flooded at the time of satellite imagery acquisition (Copernicus EMS © 2019 EU, [EMSR352] Ahvaz: Delineation Product)
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE COPERNICUS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICE (EMS)
Copernicus is the European Union Earth Observation and Monitoring Programme.
The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) uses satellite imagery and other geospatial data to provide free of charge mapping service in cases of large natural disasters, human-made emergency situations and humanitarian crises throughout the world. The maps are produced in two temporal modes:
● Rapid Mapping consists of the provision of geospatial information in support of emergency management activities immediately following a disaster. Different types of maps are produced, for example, to ascertain the situation before the event (reference maps), to assess the geographical extent of the event (delineation maps) or to evaluate the intensity and scope of the damage resulting from the event (grading maps).
● Risk & Recovery Mapping consists of the provision of geospatial information in support of disaster management activities that are not related to immediate emergency response but rather to pre-disaster risk assessment or post-disaster recovery monitoring. This applies to activities dealing with prevention, preparedness, disaster risk reduction and recovery phases.
The EMS can be triggered only by or through an Authorised User (AU). Authorised Users include the National Focal Points (NFPs) of the EU Member States and countries participating in the Copernicus programme, as well as European Commission services and the European External Action Service (EEAS), including the EU Delegations. Beneficiary end users of EMS include entities and organisations at regional, national, European and international level actors in the field of civil protection and humanitarian aid. Interested Users may trigger the service by sending a Service Request Form (SRF) directly to the European Response Coordination Centre (ERCC): echo-ercc@ec.europa.eu.
The Copernicus Programme.
Copernicus, the European Earth Observation and Monitoring Programme, is served by dedicated satellites (the Copernicus Sentinels constellation) and a set of Contributing Missions (additional satellites from existing commercial and national agencies). Since the launch of Sentinel-1A in 2014, the European Union set in motion a process to place a constellation of almost 20 more satellites in orbit before 2030. Today, 7 Sentinels are in orbit, 6 of which are fully operational to continually provide satellite information over the situation of the whole globe. This satellite data is complemented by and validated with in situ data.
Six Copernicus Services transform the full, free and open data into value-added information by processing and analysing the data to transform them into services and products such as informative maps, data sets and reports These six services are:
● The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service
● The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service
● The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
● The Copernicus Climate Change Service
● The Copernicus Emergency Management Service
● The Copernicus Security Service
Copernicus is coordinated and managed by DG GROW in the European Commission. It is implemented in partnership with the EU Member States, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), EU Agencies and Mercator Océan. The European Commission Joint Research Centre offers the technical support of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service whilst the Emergency Response Coordination Centre of DG ECHO assists civil protection actors with the handling of the EMS mapping requests in a 24/7 mode
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