5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland

1. International Collaboration of Space Agencies to
Support Disaster Preparedness and Response
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and Country Risk Management
Ivan Petiteville (ESA, Chair CEOS WGDisasters),
Chu Ishida (JAXA),
Andrew Eddy (Athena Global, Secretary CEOS WGDisasters),
Stuart Frye (NASA),
Matthew Steventon (Symbios),
Brenda Jones (USGS),
Phila Sibandze (SANSA),
Philippe Bally (ESA)

2. What is CEOS?
Satellite EO and the 4 phases of DRM
Coordinated EO data supply
DRM product and service chain
CEOS DRM Pilots
Partnerships with stakeholders
Satellite EO and HFA2
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Overview
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3. • Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• 52 members including all the world’s leading space, satellite and
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remote sensing agencies
• The ‘space arm’ of GEO (Group on Earth Observations)
• 5 permanent Working Groups, 7 Virtual Constellations
• Main satellite data supplier for several global initiatives with
international partners (e.g. key player in UNFCCC (Climate Change)
as data provider and coordinator of all major space agencies,
supporting Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI), GEOGLAM
(Global Agriculture Monitoring – initiated by G20 ), and Geohazard
Supersites and Natural Laboratories
• WGDisasters: more than 70 members from both space agencies and
other stakeholders such as academia, civil protection, national
resources management authorities,..)
• www.ceos.org
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What is CEOS?

4. Disaster Risk Management
& Satellite EO
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5. Applications of satellite EO
for DRM
• Major existing contributions, such as the International Charter,
Sentinel-Asia and Copernicus (response focus)
• Numerous other contributions and promising areas:
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• Basic (often rapid) mapping
• Asset mapping
• Urban mapping
• Remote assessment of damage
• Flood risk analysis
• Precise terrain deformation mapping
• Landslide inventories and landslide monitoring
• Volcano monitoring

6. Coordinated EO Supply
• Significant challenge to tailor satellite observations to respond
to the DRM community’s needs (lack of awareness of what’s
possible on demand side, lack of awareness of community
needs on supply side, need for increased dialogue)
• Significant challenge to coordinate requirements across hazard
types and on global basis – no single interface, in some cases no
global roll-up from user community
• CEOS represents large number of satellite data providers, but
not all, especially not all high-resolution optical satellites
• Need for coordination to avoid overlap, duplication and gaps
and to optimize the data provision
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7. Disaster Risk Management
Product Chain
• DRM users need information products and services, not data
• Stakeholders and users not always familiar with satellite EO
offering and remote sensing; data providers not fully aware of
the end users’ needs and DRM priorities.
• Satellite community must demonstrate viability of entire chain
with the cooperation of other stakeholders, and support weak
nodes through development efforts
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CEOS DRM Pilots and Recovery
Observatory

9. Pilot Team Co-Leads Deliverables
Floods NASA, S. Frye
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Pilots Overview
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NOAA, B. Kuligowski
• Global Flood Dashboard (single access for multiple existing
systems)
• Three regional pilots showcasing end user benefit of frequent
high spatial resolution observations (Caribbean, Southern
Africa, Mekong/Java)
Seismic
Risks
ESA, P. Bally
DLR, J. Hoffmann
• Demonstrator for EO-based global strain map (main focus on
Turkey, Himalayas and Andes)
• Exploitation platform for large data set analysis (strain map,
supersites)
• Rapid scientific products for 4 to 6 earthquakes per year
(>M5.8)
Volcanoes USGS, M. Poland
ASI, S. Zoffoli
• Demonstrate feasibility of systematic global monitoring in
regional arc (Latin America)
• Develop new EO-based monitoring products at supersites
• Real-time in-depth monitoring of one ‘100-year’ category
major eruption
Recovery
Observatory
CNES, S. Hosford • Establish continued observations for a 3-5 yr period after a
major event and provide a single portal for access to data,
and exchange of products
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10. Need for increased
partnerships with DRM
stakeholders
• Awareness of satellite EO offering still low
• Possibilities for collaboration still not exploited
• Willingness of CEOS and broader EO community to collaborate
• Specific initiatives being launched (e.g. CEOS Recovery
Observatory, with formal outreach to World Bank/GFDRR,
IFRCRC, UNISDR, UNDP, UNOSAT, …)
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Added value for the Post 2015
Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction
• How did your work support the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action:
– Space agencies have traditionally focussed on response, with some degree of success.
– Satellite-based EO has been used on a case-by-case basis in many countries to support risk reduction
efforts, but no global approach was developed to date.
• From your perspective what are the main gaps, needs and further steps to be addressed
in the Post 2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in
– Research: space agencies should increase their ties to risk reduction communities to better focus
research into how satellite EO can be used for risk reduction applications (next generation)
– Education & Training: satellite data can serve to complement current data sources (in-situ, socio-economic,
etc.)and be transformed into information for regional, national and local use but this
requires capacity development and training
– Implementation & Practice: satellite EO is a high-profile and visible means to highlight exposure to
excessive risk and promote risk reduction for targeted areas (e.g. urban risk in mega cities in
Southeast Asia) and a tool to support resilience development, especially through improved
reconstruction;
– Policy: satellite EO can serve as an objective, global means to monitor risk and progress of
structural risk reduction efforts;