The GIO Emergency Management Service (GIO EMS) was the first GMES service to become operational. GIO EMS started operations on April 1st, 2012 and consists of a set of services funded by the European Commission.
The GMES emergency management service addresses, with a worldwide coverage, a wide range of emergency situations resulting from natural or man-made disasters. It covers in particular:
Until 1st April 2012, the pre-operational emergency management service of GMES was provided through the EU-funded project SAFER. On 1st April 2012, the mapping component of the GMES Emergency Management Service (GIO EMS - Mapping) entered into Initial Operations.
The implementation of the GIO-EMS service foresees 3 different modules:
This service provision is tailored to the on-demand verification of a sample of service outputs produced by the rush mode or non-rush mode services, and includes external quality control, validation of thematic information content and comparison to alternative information sources related to the emergency context.
Reference:http://portal.ems-gmes.eu/
SAFER started on 1st January 2009 and finished in April 2012. The project was partly funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. It provided a reactive cartographic service to the registered users involved in the management of humanitarian crisis, natural disasters and man-made emergency situations with timely and high quality products derived from Space Observation.
Safer Activity was built on 2 main activities: