OR/15/061 Introduction
| Grebby, S, Jordan, C J, and Dijkstra, T. 2015. Risk information services for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in the Caribbean - Service utility document. British Geological Survey Technical Note, OR/15/061. |
|
|
Scope of the document
This document describes the assessment of the Earth Observation (EO) information products/services delivered by the British Geological Survey (BGS) via the framework of the European Space Agency (ESA) eoworld2 initiative. The products/services were delivered to the Caribbean region and the World Bank (WB) primarily via the ‘Caribbean Handbook on Risk Information Management’ project (CHARIM) which is financed by the EU-funded ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Program, managed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, led by the WB team, and implemented with the University of Twente, ITC and the local users from various Government Ministries in the Caribbean region.
This document includes:
- descriptions of the EO products deliver under the three services;
- a summary of the results of the EO product assessment by the WB and local users;
- recommendations for future service improvement and relevance of services/EO information products within wider WB operations
A note on copyright: there are a significant number of figures that were derived from satellite imagery within this report. For reference, the satellite image has been identified and the copyright attribution appears here:
Copyright notices for the satellite imagery used in the project are as follows:
- Products derived from Pleiades satellite imagery — includes material © CNES 2014, Distribution Airbus DS/SPOT Image S.A. France, all rights reserved.
- Products derived from RapidEye satellite imagery — includes material © 2014 BlackBridge, all rights reserved.
- Products derived from ASTER satellite data — ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA.
- Products derived from SPOT satellite data — includes material © CNES 2014, Distribution Astrium Services/SPOT Image S.A., France, all rights reserved.
Acronyms and abbreviations
| AOI | Area of Interest |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer |
| BGS | British Geological Survey |
| CAPRA | Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment |
| CHARIM | Caribbean Handbook on Risk Information Management |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
| EO | Earth Observation |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| EU | European Union |
| FP | Final Products |
| FR | Final Report |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GMES | Global Monitoring of Environment and Security |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| KO | Project Kick-Off |
| LiDAR | Light Detection and Ranging |
| MDB | Multi-Lateral Development Bank |
| MMU | Minimum Mapping Unit |
| NEMO | National Emergency Management Organisation |
| OD | Operational Documentation |
| PM | Progress Meeting |
| SOW | Statement of Work |
| SRD | Service Readiness Document |
| SRR | Service Readiness Review |
| SRTM | Shuttle Radar Topography Mission |
| SUR | Service Utility Review |
| SUD | Service Utility Document |
| TPM | Third Party Mission |
| TTL | Task Team Leader |
| VP | Validation Protocol |
| WB | World Bank |
|
|
