ICT for the Environment

• Long term objective:

To contribute to environmental policies from definition to monitoring

To help achieve world-class environment administration in the EU by enhancing their efficiency, openness and accountability

To help creating a EU market for ICT applications and services

History of the action

• FP5 Exploratory action in environmental applications– Broad scope: air, water, soil, noise, natural

disasters– Mixed results and a few outstanding

projects:• APNEE, HEAVEN, EDEN-IW, I-MARQ, DISMAR,

HARMONOISE, SEWING, EGERIS, FORMIDABLE, EOLES

• FP6 Focus on disaster management– Good intermediate results: ORCHESTRA

OASIS, MITRA• FP7 Focus on sustainability

FP6 ICT for environmental risk management

• To contribute to the deployment of an eINFRASTRUCTURE for risk management in Europe

• To promote the development of cost-effective ICT services for disaster mitigation– System integration – solution driven– Specific technological developments when needed– Market & user needs driven

• Focus on generic solutions• Re-usable software components• Open source software• Interoperability, scalability

– Based on state-of-the-art risk and environment science

FP6 objectives

ICT for environmental risk management

The strategic approach 1.1. to cover the whole risk management

cycle.Risk assessment, preparedness, early

warning, alert, response, recovery, lessons learnt etc.

2. to cover all environmental hazards, including systemic risks / cascading risks

3. to focus on system architecture rather than specific applicationsTo decrease the development and

maintenance cost whilst improving reliability, scalability and interoperability

ICT for environmental risk management

4. To support large scale pilot test with end-users

5. To foster pre-standardisation activities as an integral part of RTD

6. To promote open source as a mean to improve the uptake of RTD results

7. To contribute to the relevant EU policies and actions:INSPIRE, GMES, GEOSS

Strategic approach 2

Post Disaster•Lessons learnt •Scenario update•Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment•Spatial re-planning Response

•Emergency telecommunication•Command control coordination•Situational awareness, crisis maps•Information communication•Dispatching of resources

FP6 Environmental risk management

Prevention and Mitigation•Hazard prediction and modeling•Risk assessment and mapping•Regional/city Planning•Structural non structural measures•Public Awareness & Education..

Preparedness •Scenarios development•Emergency Planning maps•Training

Recovery•Early damage assessment•Re-establishing life-lines transport &communication infrastructure

Alert•Real time monitoring & forecasting•Early warning•Scenario identification •all media alarm • Secure &dependable telecom

ICT for environmental risk management

• Structuring projects : IPs• Innovative projects : STREPs• Call 2 (42 M€)

– eINFRASTRUCTURE for risk management• Interoperability of geo-spatial data • Service architecture

– Improved emergency management• Command control coordination• Full situational awareness• In a multi-lingual/cultural environment

Strategy implementation

FP6 ICT for environmental risk management

Call 5 (46 M€)– Sensor network architecture– Public safety communications ( alert)– Take-up actions to support the risk

management architectures• Call 6 (5 M€)

– Tsunami early warning and alert system• Integration of the whole risk management chain• All hazard all media alert systems• Significant international cooperation, IOC,NOAA …• Contribution to GEOSS

Strategy implementation

Call 6

• Toward an integrated tsunami early warning and alert system.( STREP + SSA) funding 5 M€– enabling strong collaboration and interoperability across the

whole disaster-reduction cycle.– based on the integration of advanced ICT systems and

services to meet the needs of local, regional and basin wide TEWS

– Alert communications making use of all media broadcasting & telecoms.

– Validation environments for testing prototype integrated systems and services

– SSAs CAs to support technology transfer and sharing best practices

FP7: ICT for Sustainable development

1. Continue risk management activities• vulnerability management

• regional and city planning• critical infrastructure ( non ICT )

• humanitarian crisis2. Environment and health

• air pollution indoor and outdoor, • water and soil pollution, waste

management, • linking environment and health IS, • disease control

3. Renewable resources management• managed biodiversity, eco-accounting

4. ICT for energy efficiency

Technical development

• Integration of observing systems in service oriented architecture, workflow management (eInfrastructure)

• Multi-resolution, multi-topology data management

• Data archiving and data legacy• Techniques for highly distributed processing and

modelling ( eco-systems simulation)• Information systems for planning, decision

support under uncertainty, • Semantic based engines for environmental data

browsing and analysis in a highly distributed environment

• 4D visualization techniques• Data traceability , quality standards for data

production and transformation• Autonomous intelligent sensors for early warning

systems

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