• New tool to support geospatial analysis tasks in support of decision-making processes related to citizens’ security affected by extreme weather events.
• Consolidation of enhanced EO processing tools (e.g., change detection, flood masks) and data fusion techniques.
• Demonstration of the usage of EU infrastructures for climate and/or security related applications and integration of the data cube concept into the e-shape project.
• Flood Risk & Impact Assessment dashboard, accessible in a simplified version also to the general public (in addition to technical experts), in order to raise awareness on the possible flood-related risks.

The implementation activities will cover the first 9 months of the pilot development, followed by the operational phase that will last 9 months as well.

Flood Risk & Impact Assessment dashboard with two information levels: a basic one, for citizens and non-expert users in need to explore the final results of the project, and an advanced one, for expert users interested in analysing, comparing and downloading all the available information layers.

The pilot application today runs using the SatCen GEO-DAMP platform where time series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images have been automatically pre-processed during the first part of the study developed in the test area of Char Piya refugee camp (Bangladesh) to monitor flood events. The MEEO ADAM platform will expose the GEO-DAMP processing chains’ output to a Flood Risk & Impact Assessment dashboard.

The possibility to integrate the outcomes with other platforms (e.g., NextGEOSS, CREODIAS) will be explored, thus fostering interoperability among existing services

The pilot results will be made available through a web platform accessible for free by non-expert users (e.g., citizens) for visualizing and exploring, for instance, reports or downloadable images. An on-demand service will be made available for expert (and authorized) users working in safety and security related activities under payment after a trial period.

The potential deployment of the application in a DIAS infrastructure and the interconnection of the SatCen GEO-DAMP platform with that DIAS, will enable the upscaling of access and processing capabilities, by moving the applications to the data, and facilitating access to resources.

The concept of Climate Security has turned into a global interest topic in the last decades. Extreme weather events are ever more frequent across the world and the associated impacts are becoming increasingly important for safety and security of citizens and societies. This pilot aims at increasing the awareness of different players (i.e., policy-making or decision-making bodies, service providers, academia and citizens) fostering the development of applications in this cross-domain area, as well as it seeks to reach Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and donors operating in sensitive geographical areas most exposed to climate events.

This pilot aims at reaching the wide community of users working with EO data for climate and/or security related topics while supporting the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (particularly SDG 11 and 13), the EU Green Deal, and the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy through the generation of relevant information from EO data analysis.

The internal SatCen image analysts and the GEO Space and Security Community Activity partners will be engaged in the pilot from the beginning, and at the end of the pilot it is expected to look for extending this engagement to other GEO communities to involve new users and partners. The integration of the data cube system into GEO-DAMP would also benefit GEO SSCA by enhancing the data and service portfolio made available to the community.

Through the pilot, the solution may be ported into a Cloud environment (DIAS), thus providing (potentially) unlimited resources due to the possibilities for elastic infrastructure provisioning. Additionally, deployment on the DIAS will allow moving the applications to the data, saving unnecessary times for download and allowing for limitless, smarter, more efficient data access and more advanced data processing algorithms. Thanks to such an interoperability enhancement, the targeted implemented pilot can be effectively integrated in the e-shape federation of platforms.

For the output products of the proposed pilot, available through the Flood Risk & Impact Assessment Tool, a mixed data policy is foreseen: a free access to non-expert users (e.g. citizens); an on-demand service available for expert users (Space and Security stakeholders) under payment after a trial period.

The initial activities were performed by SatCen in the frame of the EuroGEO Sprint-to-Ministerial 2019 initiative, in synergy with the GEO SPACE-SECURITY Community Activity, and the results were presented in the correspondent session during the GEO-Week 2019 in Canberra (as well as preliminarily in the EuroGEO 2019 workshop in Lisbon) and at the BiDS 2021 conference.

It is planned to deploy the application in DIAS and to assess the cataloguing of results in NextGEOSS through cooperation with Next-EOS community activity, in which SatCen participates.