EO Services and use cases
The CopernicusLAC program is driving the development of multiple geospatial services addressing diverse natural disasters across the region. These include applications for flood preparedness, vegetation and drought monitoring, landslide detection, and urban characterization, among others.
In the CopernicusLAC Platform the user gets access to multiple EO services dedicated for mapping risk and recovery, assessing vulnerability and exposure for preparedness, and monitoring extreme weather and climate-related events (e.g. droughts, floods, wildfires).
Services
All the services available in the CopernicusLAC Platform are listed in the below table. For each service the table provides: Name, Short name, Description, Data inputs, Nature, Provider, and Products.
| Name | Short Name | Description | Data inputs | Nature | Provider | Products |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAR-based Flood Extent Mapping | SAR-FEM | Delineation of single flood extents through change detection in satellite data | Sentinel-1 | Open-source | CIMA Research Foundation | Flood Extent |
| SAR-based Flood Frequency Mapping | SAR-FFM | Time series analysis of satellite data for flood frequency estimation | Sentinel-1 | Open-source | CIMA Research Foundation | Flood Frequency |
| Flood Hazard Mapping | FHM | Merging of flood hazard maps and empirical flood frequency | Sentinel-1; Hidraulical model outputs | Open-source | CIMA Research Foundation | Flood Frequency Flood hazard |
| Flood Depth Mapping | FLDM | Maximum water depth estimation | Flood extent maps and DEM | Open-source | LIST | Water depth |
| Drought Indices | DI | Drought index estimation from anomalies detection | Earth Observation, climatic data | Open-source | Indra, CIMA Research Foundation | Downscaled Global Drought Index Combined Drought Index |
| Burned Area Mapping | BAM | Hotspots detection, burned areas delineation and severity estimation | Sentinel-3, Sentinel-2 | Open-source | Terradue | Hotspots Fire extent Fire severity Fire probability |
| Burned Area Severity | BAS | Compute burned area severity from a pair of Sentinel-2 images | Sentinel-2 | Open-source | Terradue | RBR |
| Fire Danger Mapping | FDM | Fire danger index estimation | Several static variables and Fire Weather Index (GWIS) | Open-source | Indra | Fire Weather Index Fire Danger Map |
| Fire Recovery Mapping | FRM | Post-fire spectral recovery estimation | Sentinel-2 | Open-source | Indra | Post fire recovery |
| Landslide Susceptibility and Hazard Mapping | LSHM | Estimation of likelihood of an area to suffer landslides | EO, geological variables | Open-source | Geoapp | Landslide susceptibility map Landslide hazard map |
| kinesIS | kinesIS | Calculation of average motion and corresponding uncertainty | Sentinel-1 (SLC) | Open-source | AUTh | Average terrain motion rates, Uncertainties of terrain motion rates, Multitemporal coherence levels map |
| Terrain Motion 3D Geometric Decomposition | kinesIS-3Decomp | Calculation of vertical (Up) and horizontal (E-W) surface motion components from PSI data. | Sentinel-1 (SLC) | Open-source | AUTh | Vertical and E-W ground motion components (mm) |
| SNAPPING IFG and PSI | SNAPPING | Mapping and monitoring of surface motion at reduced spatial resolution | Sentinel-1 (SLC) | Proprietary, perpetual license | AUTh | Average ground motion rates at point-like targets displacement time series at point-like targets |
| Population Distribution | PD | Derive Population density based on WSF Tracker, WSF Imperviousness, and WSF3D | EO data, WSF, OSM | Open-source / perpetual license | DLR | Population density |
| Economic Value Mapping | EVM | Economic evaluation of several sectors | Sentinel-2, demographic, economic, statistic databases | Open-source | Indra | Financial value map |
| NDVI Change Detection | NDVI-CD | Estimation of NDVI Loss | Sentinel-2 | Open-source | Terradue | Change detection mask |
| Coherence and Intensity Composite | SAR-COIN | Coherence and Intensity Composite from SAR complex imagery | Sentinel-1 SLC | Open-source | Terradue | COIN composite, coherence |
| SAR Features | SAR Features | Detect changes from a multi-temporal image stack of co-pol coherence and backscatter | S1 SLC and DEM | Open-source | Terradue | Built-up mask, Change detection map |
| Co-located Stacking | STACK | Co-locate, resample and warp multi-mission and multi-temporal rasters with respect to a reference | EO data, Aux data, Results | Open-source | Terradue | Co-located image stack |
| Filter and Vectorize Discrete Raster | FilterVectorize | Spatially filter and vectorize a discrete raster | Any discrete raster | Open-source | Terradue | Filtered raster and polygon vector |
Table 1 - Outlook of the Copernicus LAC Platform services.