Visualizing complex risks for informed action

The links between environmental change, climate stress, conflict and the vulnerability of populations are complex, and access to data on these subjects is not straightforward. The result of a collaboration between Earth Blox, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the University of Edinburgh, Strata brings together data from a variety of sources to see and locate 'hotspots' - those areas most at risk.

🟢 Free access

Identify and visualize agricultural wasteland

The Izifriche solution is a comprehensive support service for the identification and visualization of agricultural wasteland, aimed at local players wishing to act for the resilience of their territory.

Developed as part of the SCO FrichesAgricoles project, the method for automated identification of wasteland is based on the use of geographical and satellite data analyzed by the WaSaBI ©CNES software's Artificial Intelligence, at the scale of the entire Occitanie region (France). The parcel data from the regional inventory of wasteland is used in a web interface equipped with numerous geographic databases, providing a global vision of the issues at stake at different territorial scales (commune, inter-commune, département).

🔵 Service marketed by Safer Occitanie from June 2024.

Global flood alert

A Franco-American cooperation between CNES and NASA to design a digital twin of the Earth system based on the water cycle, FloodDam-DT has delivered an automated service to reliably detect, monitor and forecast floods on a global scale, including an estimate of the associated socio-economic risks.

🟢 All products from the treatment chain at the two study sites (Garonne in France and Ohio in the USA) are available on the open platform hydroweb.next (enter FloodDAM in the search box).

🟢 The FloodML tool generating flood mapping from satellite data is open source on the CNES github.

Estimating coastal flooding

Created by CLS to help coastal areas reduce their vulnerability to rising sea levels, the interactive LITTOSCOPE interface allows users to visualise several scenarios of rising sea levels, with or without a ten-year storm.

The tool also offers an assessment of the impacts (human, economic, heritage, environmental) generated.

🔵 A commercial service, access to Littoscope requires an account and password.

Monitoring cyclonic impacts in the Indian Ocean

Cimopolée is an interactive web mapping service for monitoring the impact of cyclones in the south-west Indian Ocean. Clear and intuitive, the tool displays the presence and trajectory of a cyclone in the OI zone in real time and provides more comprehensive information on the major cyclones of the last ten years. The data and associated background information can be downloaded for more detailed analysis using GIS or statistical software.

🟢 Free access

Forecasting cyclonic coastal flooding

Tested in the Bengal delta, the Band-SOS demonstrator is a pre-operational service for a coastal flood forecasting platform based on multispectral satellite images (Copernicus Sentinel-2). In operation since January 2023, the tool is used daily by the Bangladesh Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC).

Band-SOS provides a real-time forecast of the risk of flooding when a tropical cyclone strikes the coastline, coupled with a map of the vulnerability of populations at risk.

🟢 Free access

Hydrometeorological monitoring and forecasting

Operational in French Guiana since June 2023, the SAGUI platform offers a hydrological forecasting service based on space altimetry data to monitor river conditions in real time and help with navigability.

In this interface, the fruit of the OpHySE project, the results are displayed on a global map with a coloured representation of the state of the rivers (flows and flow anomalies - i.e. deviations from normal), and several navigation tabs provide differentiated views of the hydro-meteorological indicators flow, rain and air quality.

🟢 Free access

Managing hydrometeorological crises in real time

Developed in the Republic of Haiti, the GadeLapli system can be used anywhere in the world. Fed in real time with data from the COSPARIN programme, the 2D/3D platform displays rainfall estimates by analyzing satellite images and potentially flood-prone areas. Real-time support for the civil protection authorities, with the system complemented by the sending of e-mail or SMS alerts and indicators for monitoring the development of extreme hydrometeorological events.

🔵 Service marketed by Predict Services

Assessing the vulnerability of coastal populations and economic activities

Developed for the city of St Louis in Senegal and replicable for other coastal areas, the SCO St Louis interface combines all types of data to estimate the socio-economic vulnerability of coastal cities to the effects of climate change and raise awareness among local players.

The mapping platform can be used to select and combine several layers of information, including historical floods, land use and essential infrastructure, as well as simulations of marine and river flooding according to different IPCC scenarios.

🟢 Free access

Improving resilience to extreme hydro-meteorological events

Developed as part of the FLAude project, FORO uses satellite observation to improve the resilience of areas to the risks of flooding caused by intense run-off.

A genuine decision-making tool, FORO offers interactive maps to pinpoint problem areas and the levers for action. FORO is gradually being rolled out across the 23 departments of the Mediterranean Arc.

🟢 Free access to results for the Aude department