Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) based on SPI, soil moisture and fAPAR, to identify areas with potential to suffer agricultural drought, areas where the vegetation is already affected by drought conditions, and areas in the recovery process to normal condition...

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 1-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-1) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 1-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for immediate impacts of droughts such as reduced soil moisture, snowpack, ...

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 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 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 rec...

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,...

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 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 rec...

Activation date: 2020-07-24 Event type: Humanitarian Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated by the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations - European Emergency Response Coor...

Activation date: 2014-06-16 Event type: Other Activation reason: This non-rush activation touches reconstruction and recovery topics as well as urban change detection in 5 areas in the Port-au-Prince area

Activation date: 2014-04-14 Event type: Other Activation reason: Preparedness, disaster risk assessment and disaster risk reduction covering districts of: Kathmandu/Bhaktapur, Dhanusa, Siraha and Mahottari

Activation date: 2016-03-15 Event type: Other Activation reason: Contribution to national risk assessment

Activation date: 2018-03-30 Event type: Other Activation reason: The purpose of the requested mapping is to generate comprehensive knowledge through performing pre-disaster situation analysis, concerning a potential eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano...

Activation date: 2015-09-25 Event type: Other Activation reason: Risk assessment products such as exposure, vulnerability and risk maps in order support the mitigation and preparedness efforts needed to minimize casualties and economic impact by sett...

Activation date: 2020-02-28 Event type: Wind storm Activation reason: Between 22 and 23 January 2020, the Mediterranean storm "Gloria" hit Southern France. Possible effects and damages were flooding, damage to forest, soil instability, resu...

Activation date: 2014-09-24 Event type: Other Activation reason: The northern territories of Bolivia are regularly affected by massive flooding during the rainy season, which runs from October to April. Departments El Beni and La Paz (northern part) ...

Activation date: 2020-04-20 Event type: Other Activation reason: The current activation addressed the forest fire that took place on 6 August 2015, in the municipality of Acebo, Cáceres, Spain, and burned approximately 8,160 ha of pine trees a...