e2mc – Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services

Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services (E2mC)

H2020 Project – 2016-2019

website https://www.e2mc-project.eu/

Partners: e-GEOS SPA , PARIS-LODRON UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG, TERRANEA UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRANKT) GMBH , UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG, POLITECNICO DI MILANO, PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION EUROPE FORUM AISBL, SYSTEMES D’INFORMATION A REFERENCE SPATIALE – SIRS, FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, KAJO SRO, AUTONOOM PROVINCIEBEDRIJF CAMPUS VESTA, GAF AG, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA

E2mC aims at demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of the integration of social media analysis and crowdsourced 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 first hours immediately after the event. This will result in an early confirmation of alerts from running Early Warning Systems as well as first rapid impact assessment from the field. 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 different data: text, image, video, …) will be analysed and sparse crowdsourcing communities will be federated (crisis specific as Tomnod, HOT, SBTF and generic as Crowdcrafting, 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. E2mC will perform demonstrations within realistic and operational scenarios designed by the Users involved within the Project (Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid operators, including their volunteer teams) and by the current Copernicus EMS Operational Service Providers that are part of the E2mC Consortium. 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.

Publications

Journals

  • Andrea Autelitano, Barbara Pernici, Gabriele Scalia, Spatio-temporal mining of keywords for social media cross-social crawling of emergency events, Geoinformatica, Springer, link
  • Clemens Havas, Bernd Resch, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pernici, Gabriele Scalia, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Tim Van Achte, Gunter Zeug, Rosy Mondardini, Domenico Grandoni, Birgit Kirsch, Milan Kalas, Valerio Lorini, Stefan Rüping, E2mC: Improving Emergency Management Service Practice through Social Media and Crowdsourcing Analysis in Near Real Time, Sensors, 17(12), 2017 link

International Conferences and Workshops

  • Spasenovic, K., Carrion, D., Migliaccio, F., and Pernici, B.: fast insight about the severity of hurricane impact with spatial analysis of Twitter posts, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-4/W14, 221–225, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W14-221-2019
  • Ravi Shankar, J. L. Fernandez-Marquez, B. Pernici, G. Scalia, M. R. Mondardini, and G. Serugendo, CROWD4EMS: A crowdsourcing platform for gathering and geolocating social media content in disaster response, GI4DM, Geoinformation for disaster management, Prague, Sept. 2019
  • Sara Barozzi, Amudha Ravi Shankar, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Barbara Pernici, Filtering Images Extracted from Social Media in the Response Phase of Emergency Events, accepted as Work in Progress Paper (WiPe) at ISCRAM 2019, Valencia, May 2019
  • Andrea Autelitano, Barbara Pernici and Gabriele Scalia, Spatio-temporal mining of keywords for cross-social crawling of emergency events, MATES Workshop @ VLDB 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 2018
  • Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pernici, Gabriele Scalia, Gunter Zeug, Talking about places: Considering context in geolocation of images extracted from tweets, Short paper, GI-Forum, Salzburg, July 2018
  • Xuesong Peng, Barbara Pernici, Monica Vitali, Virtual Machine Profiling for Analyzing Resource Usage of Applications. SCC 2018: 103-118
  • Barbara Pernici, Chiara Francalanci, Gabriele Scalia, Marco Corsi, Domenico Grandoni and Mariano A. Biscardi, Geolocating social media posts for emergency mapping, demo paper, SWDM 2018, Los Angeles, Feb. 2018 link.
  • E 2 mC: Improving Rapid Mapping with Social Network Information Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez, Chiara Francalanci, Sharada Mohanty, Rosy Mondardini, Barbara Pernici, Gabriele Scalia, itAIS, Milan, Oct. 2017
  • Barbara Pernici, Chiara Francalanci, Gabriele Scalia, Exploratory spatio-temporal queries in evolving information, MATES VLDB Workshop, Munich, Sept. 2017 (link)

Abstracts, Posters, Exhibitions

  • Amudha Ravi Shankar, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Rosy Mondardini, Marco Corsi, Domenico Grandoni, Priyanka Chaudhary, Jan Dirk Wegner, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, and Barbara Pernici, Social Media and Crowdsourcing in Flood level Monitoring, PICO presentation, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2019
  • Marco Corsi, Domenico Grandoni, Mariano Alfonso Biscardi, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pernici, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, and Amudha Rathinam, Pre-operational use of Social Media analysis and Crowdsourcing for improving rapid mapping, Oral presentation, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2019
  • Pernici B., Francalanci C., Ravanelli P., Havas C., Resch B., Fernandez-Marquez J. L., Ravi Shankar A., Van Achte T., Meesters K., Zeug G., Whitmore C., D’Eer Y., Rüping S., Kirsch B., Bonnamour M. C., Experience using social media for rapid mapping in the E2mC project, Living Planet 2019, poster session C2.05: Next Generation Land Monitoring, Milan, Italy, May 2019, https://lps19.esa.int/NikalWebsitePortal/living-planet-symposium-2019/lps19/Speaker
  • Grandoni D., Francalanci C., Pernici B., Biscardi M., Corsi M., Fernandez J. L., Resch B., Benatia F., Zeug G., Kirsch B., Kalas M., Van Achte T., The E2mC Project: Pre-operational Results Combining Social Media and Crowdsourcing for Rapid Mapping, Living Planet 2019, poster session C7.03: Satellite and Citizen Observations, Milan, Italy, May 2019, https://lps19.esa.int/NikalWebsitePortal/living-planet-symposium-2019/lps19/Speaker
  • Francalanci, C., Pernici, B., Evolution of Emergency Copernicus Services, E2mC poster and video at the 12th Triennale Di Milano, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, Milan, Italy, March – September, 2019, http://www.brokennature.org
  • Grandoni, Domenico; Corsi, Marco; Biscardi Mariano; Francalanci, Chiara; Pernici, Barbara; Scalia, Gabriele, Ravanelli, Paolo; Fernandez-Marquez, Jose Luis; Mondardini, Rosy; Allenbach, Bernard; Benatia, Fahd; Resch, Bernd; Zeug, Gunter; Kirsch, Birgit; Kalas, Milan; Van Achte, Tim, E2mC Project: pre-operational results combining Social Media and Crowdsourcing for Rapid Mapping, 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management, Venice, 27-30 November 2018
  • Grandoni, L. De Vendictis, C. Francalanci, B. Pernici, G. Scalia, J.L. Fernandez, R. Mondardini, “The E2mC Project: An Innovative Approach to Combine Social Media and Crowdsourcing for Rapid Mapping”, accepted for presentation at “Citizen Science” session, Earth Observation Open Science 2017 Conference (ESRIN, Frascati, 25-28 September 2017)