The 6-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-6) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 6-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for medium-term impacts, for example reduced stream flow and reservoir stor...

The 9-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-9) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 9-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for medium-term impacts, for example reduced stream flow and reservoir stor...

The 12-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-12) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 12-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for medium-term impacts, for example reduced stream flow and reservoir s...

The 24-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-24) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 24-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for long-term impacts, for example, reduced reservoir and groundwater re...

The 48-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-48) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 48-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for long-term impacts, for example, reduced reservoir and groundwater re...

The 3-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-3) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 3-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for immediate impacts of droughts, such as reduced soil moisture, snowpack,...

Activation date: 2023-12-21 Event type: Flood Activation reason: In the wake of Storm Ciarán's destructive path across Western Europe from late October to early November 2023, the region of Tuscany in central Italy faced catastrophic flood...

Activation date: 2023-12-20 Event type: Flood Activation reason: In September 2023, Thessaly Region, Greece, was hit by extended floods due to heavy rainfall. After three months, an area north, north-west of Karla lake is still flooded. The On-demand...

Activation date: 2023-11-23 Event type: Other Activation reason: Wildfires are one of the main environmental hazards that regularly threaten the Iberian Peninsula. On 8 September at 13h55 a fire broke out in the Sierra de Los Guájares Granada provinc...

Activation date: 2023-11-14 Event type: Humanitarian Activation reason: This activation (a continuation and update of EMSN120 for 2023) focuses on several villages situated on both sides of the Panj River in the Tajik/Afghan border region, at an alti...

The FAPAR Anomaly indicator that is implemented in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO) is used to detect and monitor the impacts on vegetation growth and productivity of environmental stress factors, especially plant water stress due to drought. Th...

The FAPAR indicator used in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO) is the satellite-measured biophysical variable Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR, sometimes written as fAPAR or FPAR), composited for 10-day intervals, fr...

The FAPAR Anomaly indicator that is implemented in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO) is used to detect and monitor the impacts on vegetation growth and productivity of environmental stress factors, especially plant water stress due to drought. Th...

The FAPAR indicator used in the Copernicus Europeran Drought Observatory (EDO) is the satellite-measured biophysical variable Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR, sometimes written as fAPAR or FPAR), composited for 10-day intervals,...

The FAPAR Anomaly indicator that is implemented in the Copernicus European Drought Observatory (EDO) is used to detect and monitor the impacts on vegetation growth and productivity of environmental stress factors, especially plant water stress due to drought. ...

Activation date: 2023-10-10 Event type: Wind storm Activation reason: On Monday 7 August 2023, Latvia experienced a severe storm characterised by large hailstones, thunderstorms, heavy precipitation, and intense winds. This event resulted in signific...

Activation date: 2023-10-09 Event type: Flood Activation reason: On 10 September 2023, storm Daniel reached its peak in north-eastern Libya, causing much damage and major destruction. One of the worst affected cities was Derna, at the time of the eve...

Activation date: 2023-09-17 Event type: Mass movement Activation reason: The landslides in Eastern Slovenia caused by heavy rainfalls on 17 May 2023 were object to investigate, geolocate and quantify using post event data of CEMS’s Aerial compo...

Activation date: 2023-08-24 Event type: Forest fire, wild fire Activation reason: This CEMS Risk and Recovery Mapping (RRM) activation has been requested to provide damage delineation and grading product over the Parnitha Mountain, in the region of A...