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The E2mC project is co-funded by the European Commission / H2020 Programme Grant Agreement No.730082”.

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The E2mC projectE2mC projects aims at demonstrating the

technical and operational feasibility of the

integration of social media analysis and crowd-

sourced information within both the Mapping

and Early Warning Components of Copernicus

Emergency Management Service.

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

(COPERNICUS SERVICE) • EARTH OBSERVATION

/ SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS •

CROWDSOURCING • SOCIAL MEDIA •

COPERNICUS • EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

SERVICE • SATELLITE EMERGENCY MAPPING •

COPERNICUS WITNESS • GEO SOCIAL DATA • CIVIL PROTECTION • HUMANITARIAN

AID • SOCIAL CRISIS MAP

AbstractE2mC (Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services) aims at demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility

of the integration of social media analysis and crowd-sourced information within both the Mapping and Early

Warning Components of Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS).

The Project will develop a prototype

of a new EMS Service Component

(Copernicus Witness), designed

to exploit social media analysis

and crowdsourcing capabilities to

generate a new Product of the EMS

Portfolio.

The purpose of the new Copernicus

Witness Service Component is

to improve the timeliness and

accuracy of geo-spatial information

provided to Civil Protection

authorities, on a 24/7 basis, during

the overall crisis management

cycle and, particularly, in the fi rst

hours immediately aft er the event.

This will result in an early confi r-

mation of alerts from running Early

Warning Systems as well as fi rst

rapid impact assessment from the

fi eld.

The technological enabler of the

Copernicus Witness is the innovative

and scalable Social&Crowd (S&C)

Platform, developed by E2mC.

Heterogeneous social media

data streams (Twitter, Facebook,

Instagram, and diff erent data: text,

image, video, ) will be analysed and

sparse crowdsourcing communities

will be federated (crisis specifi c as

Tomnod, HOT, SBTF and generic as

Crowdcraft ing, EpiCollect.).

Two demonstration loops

will validate the usefulness of

Copernicus Witness and the S&C

Platform suitability to allow EC to

evaluate possible Copernicus EMS

evolution options.

The involvement of social media

and crowdsourcing communities

will foster the engagement of

a large number of people in

supporting crisis management;

many more citizens will become

aware of Copernicus.

Emergency Management Service

ProfessionalEmergencyResponders

user as ‘a User’

user as ‘a Sensor’

Volunteers,Citizens

social & crowd platform

Copernicus Witness Service component

EarlyWarning

Satellitetasking

Map productionand delivery

E2mC Objectives • Design and develop a prototype of the innovative and scalable S&C Platform, technological enabler of

the new Copernicus Witness Service Component

• Demonstrate the operational usefulness of the Copernicus Witness, the new Copernicus EMS

Component

• Demonstrate the tangible benefi ts of the S&C platform to the Copernicus EMS within realistic and

operational scenarios

• Assess the quality and credibility of the information generated through the analysis of social media

data or gathered through crowdsourcing mechanisms

• Defi ne a roadmap for the full uptake of the Copernicus Witness within the Copernicus EMS