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CEMS Risk and Recovery Mapping Portal

Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping activation catalogue covering flood and other hazard analyses with areas of interest, products and downloadable geospatial outputs, exposed via a JSON API.

riskandrecovery.emergency.copernicus.eu

At a glance

Region
EU (Global)
Coverage
Global activations
Access
Free
Category
International
Last updated
2026

What's inside

  • flood risk
  • recovery map
  • hazard activation
  • geospatial

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Hazard maps

    Map flood-prone areas and who and what is exposed.

    Because it has: flood risk

  2. 02

    Model validation

    Check flood models against observed events.

  3. 03

    Response planning

    Support evacuation, relief and insurance decisions.

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Flood extent from SAR

    Segment flooded areas in radar imagery, even through cloud.

  2. 02

    Depth estimates

    Learn flood depth from terrain, rainfall and past events.

  3. 03

    Early warning

    Turn forecast ensembles into simple, local alerts.

Machine access and documentation

Open API

Activations available as a JSON API with downloadable OpenAPI specification; filterable by category (e.g. Flood).

Licence: Open data

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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