Abstract
Abstract. Crisis mapping is a widely used tool for the digital representation of a disaster situation. It provides stakeholders with spatial information of the crisis describing type and severity of damages, impact on the area and its population. The quality of crisis maps is of a great importance, since the disaster response depends on the provided information. In some cases, in order to deliver a map on time, its quality can be lower than expected. The evaluation of a big sample of rapid maps produced between 2013 and 2017 and collected from open source Copernicus service have been performed. The quality check has been performed by visual analysis, observing around 36 parameters defined in the validation protocol designed at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. Overall conclusion is that crisis maps produced during the observed period have shown good level of the quality, that can satisfy the need of user. Still, there are some parameters that could be delivered with more details and precision. The results are analysed in details and remarks are presented.
Highlights
Rapid Mapping has a great role during a crisis event, because it provides in a short time geospatial and thematic information related to the situation, which will be used for supporting emergency management activities
The analysis focuses on Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS), which is implemented by the European Commission (EC) and which provides crisis and reference maps and preand post-disaster situation maps to entities and organisations working for emergency management
A quality check of crisis maps produced from 2013 to 2017 has been performed examining a representative sample of 760 maps produced by Copernicus Emergency Management service (EMS)
Summary
Rapid Mapping has a great role during a crisis event, because it provides in a short time (within the first 24-72 hours) geospatial and thematic information related to the situation, which will be used for supporting emergency management activities. Time is crucial for Emergency Management (EM), to minimize the time required for post-event map production, Rapid Mapping should be based on consolidated operational workflows. Even though all previously presented Rapid Mapping providers are independent services, they collaborate in a partnership with each other and with other agencies and organisations of interest, in order to deliver good quality products in time. A full validation of the maps has not been performed, because it would have required the availability of ground truth or, more in general, reference data, for a very large number of events. The target of the evaluation was to explore the crisis maps data quality, overviewing a large number of crisis maps over five years period, applying cost and time effective approach instead of in-depth approach
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