Copernicus Emergency Management Service

What you can build

• Chase purchase orders inside a mapped disaster

  When a new Flood, Storm, or Wildfire activation's extent covers a supplier's location, the operator lists the open orders from that supplier and proposes a delay review and a chase message.

  With Inbound Delay, PO Chase

• Flag a vendor site inside an activation

  The operator matches each activation's AOI extents to vendor addresses and proposes an outage watch with the reportLink and grading product attached.

  With Vendor Outage

• Order inspections from the grading map

  For properties inside a Grading product's extent, the operator reads the damage layers from the S3 bucket and proposes an inspection list ordered by mapped damage.

  With Inspection Scheduling

• Brief the board on a regional event

  The operator drafts a slide from the activation's stats, such as event extent, built-up area, and roads affected, with the map product and the Copernicus citation.

  With Board Pack

Requirements

• A polygon per site or supplier region to test against each activation's extent and AOI extents, which arrive as WKT
• Paging through the activations list with limit and offset; the documented sample pages by 20
• The activation code to fetch Rapid Mapping details, AOIs, and products for that event
• A GIS or tile reader for vector tiles, GeoJSON, COG, and the SLD style files stored under aws_bucket
• The Copernicus source citation on anything you distribute, as the terms and conditions require

Authentication

No key or account. The activations API and the Rapid Mapping public-activations endpoint answer plain GET requests; only records flagged sensitive are restricted.

Limits

• Activations happen only when an Authorised User requests one; the service is on demand, not continuous monitoring
• Products can be delayed or not produced: statusCode W means waiting for data, N not produced, and feasible false records an unproduced product
• Data flagged sensitive is restricted under article 53 of Regulation (EU) 2021/696 and needs registration
• Data are provided as is; the terms note that errors, omissions, and frequent changes without prior notice can occur

Questions and answers

Who can trigger a Copernicus EMS activation?

Only Authorised Users: National Focal Points in EU Member States and in countries of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, European Commission services, the EEAS Situation Room, and EU delegations. Other public authorities channel a request through an Authorised User. Products, once made, are public unless flagged sensitive.

What product types does Rapid Mapping deliver?

Per AOI: FEP First Estimate, REF Reference, DEL Delineation, and GRA Grading, plus monitoring versions. Each product carries a version statusCode of W waiting for data, I for a product being produced, F production finished, or N not produced, a deliveryTime, and a downloadPath zip.

Under what terms can I reuse the maps and data?

Free, full, and open access without warranty: reproduction, distribution, communication to the public, and adaptation are allowed. You must inform recipients of the source using the Copernicus citation guidelines. Data flagged sensitive is restricted and requires registration.