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  Date Place Event
Conferences & Meetings
    24-25/07/2007

Karlsruhe,

GERMANY

Research Training Group «Natural Disasters»

 

Symposium - Paper presentation by Infoterra Gmbh
04-06/07/2007

Salzburg,

AUSTRIA

AGIT 2007

 

GIS convention, conference and exhibition - Infoterra and geomer held a 1-day training workshop for FRA product

26/04/2007

Montreux,

SWITZERLAND

ENVISAT Symposium

 

Programm : http://www.envisat07.org/

 

Presented paper: RISK-EOS_Envisat_Symposium_presentation.pdf
25-27/04/2007

Madrid,

SPAIN

National Conference on Climate Change

 

GMV attended the conference

03/04/2007

Rome,

ITALY

EURORISK session meeting

 

Focused on Geophysical cluster for PREVIEW programme

29/03/2007  

Definiens GMES award

 

Innovation contribution - Assets Maping Risk-EOS (Eurosense)

06/03/2007

Frascati,

ITALY

COLOCATION Meeting

 

http://www.esa.int/esaLP/SEMGCAQ11ZE_LPgmes_0.html
01-02/03/2007

Sofia,

BULGARY

INTERGEO East 2007

 

Trade Fair and Conference of Land management, geo-information, Building Industry and Environment

13-16/02/2007

Brussels,

Belgium

 Demonstration of GIS related Risk Management Services of Eurosense on the ESRI users days
11-14/12/2006

Valabre,

FRANCE

Rencontres Euroméditerranéennes - Feux de forêt

 

Meeting on forest fire management, from prevention to crisis, using new inovative cartographic tools

 

InterregIIIC programm:http://www.ofme.org/ocrincendi/
14/11/2006

Bolzano,

Italy

 ASITA National Conference
22/10/2006

Montpellier,

FRANCE

AAAF, Seminar on Natural Hazards Prevention
17-18/10/2006

Valabre,

FRANCE

Users Executive Body Meeting

 

Thematic session presentation on Floods and Fires together with PREVIEW programm

 

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05/10/2006

Munich,

GERMANY

Presentation of Bavarian GMES initiative to the Bavarian M inistry for Economy, Technology, Infrastructure and Traffic

 

DLR presented Risk-EOS and other GMES projects to the Ministry

 

 
13/09/2006

Hamburg,

GERMANY

 Acqua Alta 2006 Trade fair & Congress
08/06/2006

Paris,

FRANCE

Simulation & risks management Workshop

 

at the Haut Comité Français à la Défense Civile
08/06/2006 BULGARIA Workshop
06-07/06/2006

Bad Neuenahr,

GERMANY

National GMES Risk Management User Day

 

Event organised by ANKZ (Academy of Crisis Management, Emergency Planning and Civil Protection) with current Risk-EOS users and new users organisations from local to national level.

Promotion towards new users organisations, training on GMES Risk Management Services

02/06/2006

Paris,

FRANCE

 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
06/2006 GERMANY

EUROMED Seminar on floods event.

 

Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israël, Jordan, Lebanon, Maroco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey

06/2006

Valabre,

FRANCE

 Presentation of Risk-EOS to the responsible of the 7 Continental Defense Zones Headquarters
18-19/05/2006

Sedan,

FRANCE

 2nd Meuse International Symposium
18/05/2006

Munich,

GERMANY

User meeting

 

Event organised by Infoterra GmbH, with decision makers in water management (BLfU, Bavarian State Office for environmental issues and Water Managemen.

Information about Risk-EOS extensions and current activities of PREVIEW and Risk-EOS

9-11/05/2005

Salzburg,

AUSTRAI

 ESRI User Conference
24-26/04/ 2006

Salzburg,

AUSTRIA

GMOSS (Global Monitoring for Security and Stability) Conference

 

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02/04/2006

Gävle,

SWEDEN

 EU INSPIRE meeting
27-29/03/2006

Bonn,

GERMANY

EWC III: Third International Conference on Early Warning

 

(http://www.ewc3.org/)

22-23/03/2006

Munich,

GERMANY

Tag der Hydrology 2006

 

(Day of hydrology)

National Conference on risk management of extreme hydrological events, organised by the Bundeswehr University of Munich, with decision makers and researchers in the field of hydrology.
09/03/2006

Toulouse,

FRANCE

 GMES Workshop
08/03/2006

Stockholm,

SWEDEN

 Swedish Space Board meeting
23-24/02/2006

Belgrade,

SERBIA

 INTERGEO East
15-17/02/2006

Belgrade,

SERBIA

DANewBE data project meeting

 

GIS Danube workshop 4

19/01/2006

Dîjon,

FRANCE

SDIS Workshop

 

French Departmental civil protection meeting

16/01/2006

Kranzberg,

GERMANY

 ESRI permanent Workshop
05/12/2005

Barcelona,

SPAIN

ARMONIA Conference

 

Multi-Hazards: Challenges for Risk Assessment, Mapping and Management

 

(http://www.armoniaproject.net/html4/index.php)
30/11/2005

Braunschweig,

GERMANY

 FAL Conference
08-09/06/2005

Hannover,

GERMANY

INTERSCHUTZ: International Trade Fair for rescue Services, Fire prevention, Disaster Relief, Safety and Security

 

See presentation of Risk-EOS at Interschutz

 

(http://www.interschutz.de/ & http://www.vfdb.de/riskcon/ Conference presentation)

21-23/03/2005

Delft,

THE NETHERLANDS

Gi4DM: Geo-Information for Disasters Management

 

See presentation of Risk-EOS at Gi4DM

 

(http://www.gdmc.nl/events/gi4dm/)

Press Releases
2006
    20-21/11/2006

Bordeaux,

FRANCE

Review of end of PHASE 1 of RISK-EOS Stage 2, at South West Defense Zone, Bordeaux, at the premises of GIP ATGeRI

 

at South West Defense Zone, Bordeaux, at the premises of GIP ATGeRI

 
  05/06/2006 Diario Cordoba

Spanish press release about fire risk management

 

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  30/05/2006 DIario Jaen

Spanish press release about fire risk management

 

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  25/05/2006 La Voz de Cadiz

Spanish press release about fire risk management

 

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  24/05/2006

Diariodigitalagraria

Spanish press release about fire risk management

 

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  13/04/2006

 

 

ESA website

 

Physorg.com

Massive German floods monitored from space

 

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMRPVNFGLE_index_0.html

 

http://www.physorg.com/news64157030.html
  20/03/2006
ESA website

Satellite flood mapping service strengthens eastern France civil protection

 

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMWMDMVGJE_index_0.html
2005
    26/08/2005 Climate Change Chronicles

Central European Flood Surges Watched From Orbit

 

http://www.climatechange.com.au/2005/08/26/central-european-flood-surges-watched-from-orbit/
  25/08/2005
ESA website

Central European flood surges watched from orbit

 

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMFGX95QCE_index_0.html
  04/08/2005

 

 

ESA website

 

Earth Observatory (NASA)

Spanish forest fire aftermath surveyed by Envisat

 

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM25M808BE_index_0.html

 

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2005/2005080419878.html
2004
   

27/07/2004

 

 

Science Daily

 

Innovations report

 

Earth Observatory (NASA)

Satellites are tracing Europe's forest fire scars

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040728090806.htm

 

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/report-31776.html

 

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2004/2004072717352.html
Charter Activation
2008
   

CHARTER

CALL ID 227

 

 

activation date

15/10/08

Guadeloupe, Saint Martin and Saint-Barthélemy islands

 

 


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Hurricane on Guadeloupe, Saint Martin and Saint-Barthélemy islands

 

Hurricane Omar crossed the northern Leeward Islands as a major Category 3 storm.
Warnings are being issued for other islands in the Caribbean Sea as the hurricane moves northeastward.

 

More information and maps: (CHARTER website, SERTIT website)
   

CHARTER

CALL ID 226

 

 

activation date

04/10/08

ALGERIA

 


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Floods in Algeria

 

The city of Ghardaïa (500 km south of Algiers, on the northern edge of the Sahara desert) and its surroundings have been stricken by severe floods on 1 October at around 05:00 UTC, leaving at least 33 people killed, 48 injured and 50 missing. Thousands of people were evacuated and most roads and means of communication are out of service.

 

More information and maps: (CHARTER website, SERTIT website)

   

CHARTER

CALL ID 212

 

 

activation date

28/07/08

ROMANIA

 


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Floods in Romania and Ukraine

 

Thousands of people were evacuated in northeastern Romania after heavy rains caused massive flooding that swept away homes, cut off electricity and damaged roads. At least four people died and two people are still missing.

After days of heavy rain at the end July around the Carpathian Mountains, floods have hit western and southern Ukraine with rivers, including the Dniestr and the Prut Rivers, bursting their banks. The floods are the worst seen in a century, leading the government to declare the region a national disaster area. Hundreds of towns and villages are affected with more than 40,000 houses affected and some 20,000 people evacuated.

 

More information and maps: (CHARTER website, SERTIT website)
2007
   

CHARTER

CALL ID 175

 

 

activation date

29/08/07

GREECE

 


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Large fires in Greece

 

In response to the request from the Department of Emergency Planning and Response of the Greek Civil Protection concerning the severe fire events that affected their territory since 21 August, the European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the responsibility of the Charter Project Management, and, in collaboration with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (the French Space Agency, CNES), have organised a team of value adding organisations to deliver crisis mapping products. This group is based on Greek, French and German partners; for instance, the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens, under contract to ESA within the RISK-EOS GMES Service Element project; SERTIT, with support from CNES; the German DLR ZKI organisation, another partner of RISK-EOS.
A series of EO based crisis/damage mapping products have been generated using a variety of Earth Observation sensors, such as, in the early phase of activation, Medium Resolution Optical data from ENVISAT MERIS, DMC (incl. Nigeriasat-1), Landsat, SAC-C, SPOT and FORMOSAT.

 

More information and maps: (CHARTER website, DLR website, SERTIT website)

 

CHARTER

CALL ID 167

 

 

activation date

02/08/07

SPAIN

 


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Fires in Canaria Islands

 

The fire, which began in a mountainous area on 27 July, has destroyed around 10,000 hectares of land on Gran Canaria and around 14,000 hectares on Tenerife. More than 13,000 people have been evacuated from centres on the two islands, both popular tourist destinations.

 

More information and maps: (CHARTER website, DLR website)

 

 

CHARTER

CALL ID 166

 

 

activation date

24/07/07

ENGLAND

 



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Floods

 

Flooding of the Thames and Severn rivers forced thousands to evacuate and left 50,000 houses without power, following a month of heavy rain.

 

More information and maps: (CHARTER website, DLR website)

CHARTER

CALL ID 161

 

 

activation date

28/06/07

UNITED KINGDOM

 


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Floods in UK

 

Heavy rains caused widespread flooding throughout England and Wales. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the Midlands were particularly hard hit. About 3500 people were evacuated. The BBC reported four dead.

 

More information and maps: (CHARTER website)
2006
   

CHARTER

CALL ID 126

 

 

activation date

29/07/06

 

LEBANON

 



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Oil spill off the coast of Lebanon

 

An estimated 30,000 tonnes of oil leaked into the Mediterranean from the Jiyeh power plant, 20 kilometers south of Beirut. The power plant was hit by Israeli air strikes on 13 and 15 July 2006. By 29 July the leaking oil had polluted a coastal zone some 130 kilometers long, north and south of the Lebanese capital.

 

More information and maps: (CHARTER website, DLR website)

CHARTER

CALL ID 121

 

 

activation date

19/04/06

 

(still open)

 

Floods in

ROMANIA

 



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DANUBE River

 

Snowmelt and long lasting rainfalls led to a dramatic increase of water levels at the Danube River to values which were never measured before. More than 4,700 people had to be evacuated from the flooded regions so far, 3,000 of them in the village Rast in the southwest of the country alone. After a dam could no longer withstand the pressure by the water (16/04/2006), 600 buildings were flooded from which 115 collapsed. By now, 40,000 hectares of land are covered by the floodings.

Due to the tough flood situation in Romania, the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) of the European Commission has extended Charter Call 120 (Floods at Tisza River, Hungary) to the affected regions there.

The Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) of DLR is producing maps of the flooded areas based on up-to-date satellite data. The map production is financed through the GMES Service Element RISK-EOS.

 

More information and flood maps: (CHARTER website, DLR website)

 

 

CHARTER

CALL ID 120

 

 

activation date

14/04/06

 

(still open)

 

Floods in

HUNGARY

 



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TISZA River

 

Snowmelt in combination with heavy rainfalls over the last weeks led to an aggravation of the flooding situation in Southeast Europe. In Hungary, the most critical situation shifted from the Danube river, where the water level had reached the highest levels for more than 100 years, to the Tisza river (April 18, 2006). In particular the cities of Szolnok and Szeged are affected, where the Hungarian civil protection tries to reinforce the dams with sand bags. In total about 40 settlements are endangered by the flood.

The Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) of the European Commission has triggered the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' on behalf of the Hungarian civil protection.

The Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) of DLR has taken over the project management for this Charter activation and is producing map products based on up-to-date satellite data. The map production is financed through the GMES Service Element RISK-EOS.

 

More information and flood maps: (CHARTER website, DLR website)

 

 
 

CHARTER

CALL ID 119

 

 

activation date

07/04/06

 

close date

24/04/06

 

Floods in

AUSTRIA

 



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MORAVA River

 

Floods in western Austria killed three people and caused the evacuation of approximately 1200 homes.

 

More information and flood maps: (CHARTER website, SERTIT website)

CHARTER

CALL ID 117-118

 

 

activation date

04/04/06

 

close date

12/04/06

 

Floods in

CZECH REPUBLIC & CENTRAL EUROPE

 



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Central Europe

 

PRAGUE, 31 March, 2006 (AFP) - Large swathes of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and the German region of Saxony remained on flood alert Friday as the death toll from swollen rivers rose and more people were evacuated from their homes.

 

More information and flood maps: (CHARTER website, SERTIT website)
 

CHARTER

CALL ID 116

 

 

activation date

01/04/06

 

still open

 

 

Floods in

GERMANY

 



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ELBE River

 

After the devastating flooding in August 2002, the Elbe region in Saxony is currently affected by a flood once again. Strong rainfalls in conjunction with snowmelt in the Krkonose Mountains (Czech Republic) led to a rise of the Elbe River to a level of currently 7.45 meters. In the city of Dresden, some areas next to the river had to be evacuated. Alongside the Elbe, whole districts of several towns were flooded. In four Saxony counties, disaster alarm was raised. Numerous helpers of the military, the German governmental disaster relief organization (THW), and the German Livesaving Organisation (DLRG) are on duty in the crisis region.

Within the scope of the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters", DLR prepares satellite image maps of the region. The Charter was triggered by the German Joint Information and Situation Centre (GMLZ) in order to support the State of Saxony's relief efforts. Furthermore, the DLR maps are generated in the context of RISK-EOS, a European network of service providers in geoinformation which has been created to support the actors of disaster management.

 

More information and flood maps: (CHARTER website, DLR website)

 

 

CHARTER

CALL ID 115

 

 

activation date

21/03/06

 

close date

28/03/06

 

 

Earthquake in ALGERIA

 



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EARTHQUAKE

 

An earthquake measuring 5,8 on the Richter scale killed four people and wounded more than sixty others in the area of Laalam, in the North-East of Algeria.
It struck on Monday evening in the Laalam area, the locality of Laalam - in the North-East of Algeria - leaving four dead and 67 wounded according to a provisional report. According to the Algerian Center in astronomy, astrophysics and geophysics (ARCAA), the magnitude was 5,8 on the Richter scale and the earthquake took place at 20h44 local time. Its epicentre was located close of the town of Kherrata, located between Béjaia and Sétif, 300 km to the east of Algiers.
Algeria ia often affected by earthquakes as the north of the country is located in a seismic area where the Eurasian and African plates conjoin. Algiers and the surrouding area was hit on May 21, 2003, by a violent seism that left 2300 dead and more than 10 000 wounded.

 

More information and damage maps: (CHARTER website, SERTIT website)

 
2005
   

CHARTER

CALL ID 105

 

 

activation date

06/09/05

 

close date

16/09/05

 

 

Floods in

Gard & Hérault departments, SOUTH of FRANCE

 



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HEAVY RAINS & FLOODS

 

Heavy rains caused flooding in southern France, in the French departments of Gard and Hérault, on the 6th and 7th September. Three major highways were cut off and the towns of Lunel and Montpellier were in part flooded.

 

More information and flood maps: (CHARTER website, SERTIT website)

 
REGIONAL RAPID MAPPING
2006
   

activation date

06/01/06

 

 

close date

31/03/06

Fires in

New-Caledonia

FRANCE

 



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LARGE FIRES

 

Started on 23rd December 2005, a severe fire has devastating the south of New Caledonia near Mont-Doré. Flared up by strong winds and extreme dry conditions, the fire destroyed more than 3000 ha of forest so far, threatening the nature reserves of Mont-Koghis, Rivière Blanche and Montagne des Sources.

 

More information and burn area maps: (SERTIT website)