The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre.

About Google Earth

The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre.

The European Commission Joint Research Centre's Support to External Security Unit analyzes real-time scientific natural hazard data to derive potential humanitarian impact using geographical information systems, satellite imagery and open source information.

Updates

Updates are automatically available, because Google connects through a "network link" to the JRC computers who provide updated content. It is possible to actively refresh the content of a "network link": right-click on the title and choose "Refresh".

For more information or assistance, please contact tom.de-groeve@jrc.it.

About JRC

The Support to External Security Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission provides scientific and technical support to Commission Directorates General with responsibilities in the implementation and monitoring of EU policies related to EU external relations policies and external aspects of internal security.

This support takes more often than not the form of geospatial data. In order to maximize the impact, we make use of the 3D Google Earth viewer to present SES systems including Digital Map Archive, Global Atlas, Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System and the European Media Monitor.

See More Google Earth content from JRC.

Installation

1. Install Google Earth
   Make sure you have installed Google Earth on your computer. If not, download and install it from http://earth.google.com.
    
2. Get GDACS content
   Click on the following link to open Google Earth and download the JRC file:
   • http://www.gdacs.org/xml/install_gdacs.kml.
   
   If this fails, download the file (right click, save as) and open it locally.
   
   A new network link will appear in your "Temporary Places".
   
   
    
3. Save GDACS content in Google Earth
   Right-click and select "Save to My  Places" to store the network link. Now you will always have access to the up to date content provided by GDACS.
   
   

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