– The Copernicus Emergency Management Service
– How to access Copernicus data, download and use them in QGIS
– GeoNode introduction and data publishing
– The modern technologies, Vector Tiles with a demo

Participants are required to bring their own laptop with the following software installed: a browser, the QGIS desktop GIS software, and a text editor (e.g. Notepad++ for Windows users).

The speakers

Simone Dalmasso works at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) as technical coordinator of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service – Rapid Mapping, which provides geospatial information in support of emergency management activities immediately following a disaster at a global scale. Simone has a Ph.D. in Geomatics with focus on Geospatial Open Source Software development and he’s a core developer of GeoNode. https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonedalmasso/?originalSubdomain=it

Simone Balbo holds a Master’s degree in Territorial and Environmental Engineering (Politecnico di Torino, 2008) and a PhD in Environmental Protection and Management (Politecnico di Torino, 2012). He is specialized in the domain of geoinformatics with particular focus on applications related to emergency management: GIS map production, geospatial data processing, satellite remotely sensed data analysis and web mapping development.Currently he acts as coordinator of ITHACA production site for the Copernicus Emergency Management Service – Rapid Mapping module and as tool developer in the same service.He also works on: i) GeoNode (geonode.org) based projects as developer (examples are www.masdap.mw and haitidata.org) since 2012; ii) the Copernicus In-Situ component (www.insitu.copernicus.eu) as consultant to the European Environment Agency on geospatial reference data since 2016.