Climate emergency management in Vietnam: MASE and e-GEOS sign international cooperation agreement

The Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (MASE), in the context of its international cooperation work, has co-financed the construction of a climate emergency response centre in Vietnam, which will be implemented by e-GEOS (ASI 20%, Telespazio 80%) with local industrial partners, under the coordination of the National Remote Sensing Department (NRDC) of the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE). The total value of the project is 3.5 million, financed with a three million euro contribution from Italy and the rest from within Vietnam.

Working with Vietnamese partners, e-GEOS will develop a Centre of Operations (GIC - Geo Information Centre), a system capable of supplying pre- and post-event information and analysis in a matter of hours through integration of the technological capabilities of the COSMO-SkyMed radar satellite constellation (of the Italian Space Agency and Ministry of Defence) and e-GEOS application platforms for maritime surveillance, infrastructure monitoring and emergency support.

The initiative supports strategy for adaptation to the effects of climate change in particularly vulnerable parts of Southeast Asia, included in the "Set up and implementation of a Geo-Information System for Climate Change Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Environment Monitoring for Vietnam based on Remote Sensing Technology" cooperation project which the Italian Ministry has set up in partnership with the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

In this project, e-GEOS provides MASE and Vietnam with its expertise in the processing and exploitation of analyses based on radar, optical and other sensor data, interferometry, hydraulic models, artificial intelligence and emergency and climate change response.