The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS), implemented by the Joint Research Centre, is organising this event to present and discuss the recent developments of its global flood early warning and monitoring tools - Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) and Global Flood Monitoring (GFM).
The event will focus on the latest developments of these aforementioned systems, via keynotes and panel discussions through which user feedback and user case studies will be explored.
How to participate
The event is free of charge but it is necessary to register.
- flood | natural disaster | disaster risk reduction | crisis management | man-made disaster | humanitarian aid
- Tuesday 5 March 2024, 13:00 - Wednesday 6 March 2024, 16:00 (UTC)
- Online only
Programme
- 5 Mar 2024, 13:00 - 16:30 (UTC)DAY 1
- 13:00 - 13:05 (UTC)Opening and welcome
Peter Salamon, Joint Research Centre
- 13:05 - 13:20 (UTC)A short intro to the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS)
Stefania Grimaldi, Joint Research Centre
- 13:20 - 13:40 (UTC)Latest news and updates of GloFAS
Christel Prudhomme, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- 13:40 - 13:55 (UTC)A short intro to the Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS)
Tobias Stachl, Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring GmbH
- 13:55 - 14:15 (UTC)Latest news and updates of the GFM product
Tobias Stachl, Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring GmbH
- 14:15 - 14:30 (UTC)Break
- 14:30 - 15:00 (UTC)Use cases and applications (IGNITE talks)
- An application of GloFAS to support disaster risk financing through Flood Foresight - Christine McKenna, JBA Consulting
- GloFAS and GFM data usage in the context of the Horizon Europe project CENTAUR - Adriano Benedetti, E-Geos
- Flood Forecasting Model Enhancement to increase forecast lead-time with GloFAS forecasting in Bangladesh - Sazzad Hossein, Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre
- A Comparison of Sentinel-1 Approaches to Map the May-June 2022 Floods in Sylhet, Bangladesh - Alex Saunders, University of Arizona
- GloFAS Flood Thresholds - Ervin Zsoter, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- 15:00 - 15:10 (UTC)Pre-view of day 2
Peter Salamon, Joint Research Centre
- 15:10 - 15:20 (UTC)Presentation of Gather.Town activities
Karen O’Reagan, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- 15:20 - 16:30 (UTC)Join us in Gather.Town!
Poster session and open space for a lively discussion.
- 6 Mar 2024, 13:00 - 16:00 (UTC)DAY 2
- 13:00 - 13:05 (UTC)Welcome Day 2 and recap Day 1
Peter Salamon, Joint Research Centre
- 13:05 - 13:15 (UTC)GloFAS and GFM annual users’ surveys: 2022 results and follow-up actions
Nina Bosshard, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute and Luca Molini, CIMA Research Foundation
- 13:15 - 13:30 (UTC)Keynote 1: The Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action System
Lorenzo Alfieri, CIMA Research Foundation
- 13:30 - 13:45 (UTC)Keynote 2: Use of GloFAS products for food security assessments
Shahriar Pervez, U.S. Geological Survey, Famine Early Warning Systems Network
- 13:45 - 14:00 (UTC)Keynote 3: Water depth estimate and flood extent enhancement using GFM
Andrea Betterle, Joint Research Centre
- 14:00 - 14:20 (UTC)Monitoring and reporting floods worldwide: analytics about GloFAS forecasts
lias Pechlivanidis, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
- 14:20 - 14:35 (UTC)Break
- 14:35 - 15:05 (UTC)Use cases and applications (IGNITE talks)
- Global modelling of total water storage variations (use of GloFAS set-up for geodetic analysis) - Laura Jensen, German Research Centre for Geosciences
- Global Flood Hazard Maps - Calum Baugh, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- Enhancing impact-based Flood Detection and Mapping using Deep Learning - Mohid Fayaz Mir, Polytechnic University of Milan
- GFM product for flood monitoring in Brazil - Maurício Cordeiro, National Water and Sanitation Agency, Brazil
- Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Flood Hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa - Bastien Dieppois, Coventry University
- 15:05 - 15:20 (UTC)What is next for GloFAS and GFM
Peter Salamon, Joint Research Centre
- 15:20 - 15:25 (UTC)Closing of the meeting and transfer to Gather.Town
Peter Salamon, Joint Research Centre
- 15:25 - 16:00 (UTC)Join us in Gather.Town!
Poster session and open space for a lively discussion.
Practical information
- When
- Tuesday 5 March 2024, 13:00 - Wednesday 6 March 2024, 16:00 (UTC)
- Where
- Online only
- Who should attend
- Researchers and students, international humanitarian aid organisations, national and regional water and emergency management authorities, insurance companies, civil protection and first line responders
- Languages
- English
- Organisers
- Copernicus Emergency Management Service | Joint Research Centre
Description
The format of the event will be highly interactive, including ignite and keynote talks from GloFAS and GFM users, a poster session, and an open space for lively conversations. Participants will have the opportunity to connect with people from the GloFAS and GFM communities to discuss their work and expand their network.
Did you miss the previous Annual Meetings? The summary and the presentations of the previous annual meetings are available here: https://www.globalfloods.eu/get-involved/events/.
For questions or technical difficulties in the registration process, please send us a message through https://www.globalfloods.eu/contact-us/.
We look forward to welcoming you to the 3rd CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Annual Meeting!
Contacts
General contact
- Organisation
- Copernicus Emergency Management Service
- Website
- https://www.globalfloods.eu/