The recent fire of Biebrza National Park has been one of the biggest challenge for rescue services and crisis managements units in Poland for years. More than 5,5 hectares were burnt. During fire service action there were used special planes and helicopters because of hard-to-reach peat and swamp areas. UAVs were used for situation assessment and place of incident documentation.

Experts from the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences used the satellite data to determine the extent of fire in the Biebrza National Park. Observations have shown that the fire area increased eightfold between 20 and 22 April reaching almost 4200 hectares.

Wishing you lots of health, beautiful time with your familiy and nothing but smiles, sunshine and optimism. Happy Easter 2020 !

We present below the overview of the most interesting web maps dedicated to COVID-19 monitoring in Poland.

We present a list of the most interesting web maps monitoring the development of the to COVID-19 pandemic in the world.

We are looking for ideas of devices, methods, actions or processes using in the fight against COVID-19 pandemia. Take a look at the challenges and take part in Covid Challenge.

Specialists from Crisis Information Centre, Space Research Centre of Polisch Academy of Sciences will take part in the project: Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems (HERoS). The overall objective of HERoS is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the response to the Covid-19 outbreak. The project is funded by EU (H2020 project under the H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020 funding scheme).

On 18-20 February 2020 the DRIVER+ Advanced Crisis Management Conference was held in Brussels. The main aim of the conference was to summarize DRIVER+ project’s achievements. More than 300 crisis management specialists, scientists, providers of advanced solutions and the European Comission and EU countries representatives took part in the event.

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the data of Forum is postoponed. Probable new data: autum 2020.

For over two years the Mobile Satellite Data Analysing and Development Centre (MCS) has been operating in Crisis Information Centre Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences. MCS offers operational support in geoinformation for crisis management institutions.

The second year of “Operating system for gathering, sharing and promotion of digital information about the environment - Sat4Envi” is over. It was a year full of the new experiences. In the meantime we would like to remind the most important events in 2019 for Sat4Envi.

Union Civil Protection Mechanism is the highest Crisis Management coordination body in the European Union. The primary aim of the UCPM is to strengthen cooperation between Participating States – Members States and others affiliated in the UCPM – in the field of civil protection, in order to respond to disasters as effectively and synergistically as possible. It demands a tremendous coordination effort and it was the main topic of Final Demonstration organised by Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences and the Main School of Fire Service under DRIVER+ Project.

On 16-17 December 2019 Crisis Information Centre SRC PAS team conducted training on Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing for inspectors from Inspectorate for Environmental Protection.

The first Centre of Expertise DRIVER+ (CoE) wil come into being in Poland. CoE is an organisation operating in the domain of Crisis Management and Disaster Risk Reduction that acts as the primary contact point for practitioner organisations at the national or regional level, supporting their capability development and innovation management.

Between 19th – 20th of November was the second Sat4Envi conference on Satellite data in monitoring the natural environment of Poland. The event was dedicated to representatives of the scientific community and the public administration.