CHH: Health community accessing environmental information from the Copernicus Programme

Abstract

Abstract Copernicus is the Earth observation component of the European Union's Space programme, looking at our planet and its environment to benefit all European citizens. The Copernicus services transform wealth of satellite and ground-based measurements into value-added information by processing and analysing the products. All the information is provided with an open and free data policy to help public national and European authorities, policy makers, international organisations and service providers to improve European citizens’ quality of life. There are six operational Copernicus Services covering the whole Earth System including ocean, land, atmosphere and more horizontal domains such as climate change, emergency and security. To facilitate the use of these information by the different user communities, some Thematic Hubs have been created and are under development. One of the first hubs is the Copernicus Health Hub (CHH) and it is focusing on the health community. The CHH collects and provides all the Copernicus environmental information that are pertinent to Health, following WHO definition: Physical, Mental and Well-being. The health Hub is also supporting the users in better exploiting and uptake Copernicus data and products (via documentation, access to catalogues, inspirational use case stories, ...). In addition, the CHH should collect new requirements for the evolution of the Copernicus programme. In this presentation, the CHH will be introduced in more details, the different types of environmental information will be presented accompanied by some use cases to inspire further developments and new applications for the health community. Key messages • The Copernicus Health Hub is a facilitator between the Health community and the Earth Observation and environmental science community. • The Copernicus Health Hub provide all environmental data at Globale and European scale.