activation of the international charter for major disasters through the universal access
- Paper number
IAC-21,B1,6,7,x62869
- Author
Mr. Pierric Ferrier, France, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- Coauthor
Dr. Claire Tinel, France, CNES
- Year
2021
- Abstract
The International Charter for Majors Disasters has been founded in 1999 by the French, European and Canadian space agencies (Cnes, ESA and CSA). It started its operation in 2000. Its action is focused on the immediate response when a disaster occurs, making possible the delivery of value added maps within one or two days after the Charter has been activated. The end user (a management disaster Authority) gets this precious information free of charge and is therefore in a position to organize the relief operations. Even though the Charter members rapidly extended from 3 to 17 members, it became obvious that something had to be done to spread the benefit of the Charter over countries/organizations outside the limited circle of the Charter Membership. This initiative, called the Universal Access, has been put in place in 2012. It allows any national disaster management authority to become an Authorized User (AU). Once the conditions are met and the training properly done, the new AU has the privilege to activate the Charter when a major disaster strikes. In parallel, the Charter partnered with UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER, UNITAR/UNOSAT, Sentinel Asia in order to enlarge worldwide the possibilities to activate the Charter. This Universal Access initiative has been successful since its inception. As of November 2020, there are more than 80 AU in 72 countries (this figure is constantly evolving) which have been granted the AU status. This presentation will provide information about the Universal Access initiative and how to become a Charter AU.
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