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Call 5 meetingCall 5 meetingJune 2, 2005June 2, 2005

ICT for Environmental Risk ManagementInformation Society & Media DGEuropean Commission, BrusselsGuy WeetsDeputy head of unit

Call 5

• The R&D context

• The overall FP6 strategy in disater mitigation

• Situation after call 2

• Call 5 priorities

Disaster management issues

• Risk management is not yet a well organized discipline -> lack of unifying concept

• Unclear organizational responsibility for information generation – lack of quality reporting -> lack of historical data

• Incompatible information systems -> access to relevant data is not easy

• Risks are handled in isolation • No clear methodology to handle inter-related risks • ………etc….

Disasters in the EU policy context

• EU’s 6th Environmental Action Programme & EU Sustainable Development Strategy

• Civil Protection Community Action Program- flood, fire, earthquake, landslides, marine pollution…- early warning, alerting the population, crisis management, emergency communication

• Development & Humanitarian aid, solidarity & cohesion funds, Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)

• Initiatives: INSPIRE, GMES, GEOSS …

Evolving disaster reduction paradigm

1. Comprehensive emergency management• Focus on response

2. Disaster resistant communities– Focus on prevention

3. Resilient communities– Focus on rapid recovery

4. Sustainable disaster mitigation– Focus on the process linking environment,

development and disaster – Vulnerability management – people, infrastructure, environment

Post Disaster•Lessons learnt •Scenario update•Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment

Response•Emergency telecommunication•Situational awareness, crisis maps•Command control coordination•Information communication•Dispatching of resources•Early damage assessment….

Disaster Management Cycle

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

Reconstruction•Spatial planning•Re-establishing life-lines transport &communication infrastructure

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

The IST Approach

• To promote the development of cost-effective sustainable services– Technology integration – solution driven– Specific technological developments– Market & user needs driven

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

– Based on state-of-the-art scientific knowledge

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

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

maintenance cost Whilst improving the 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

ICT for environmental risk management

• Structuring projects : IPs• Innovative projects : STREPs• Past call

– Shared info-structure for risk management• Interoperability of geo-spatial data ( from

syntactic to semantic interoperability)

– Improved crisis management• Command control coordination• Full situational awareness

• On-going call

Strategy implementation

ICT for environmental risk management

• On-going call– Sensor network architecture– Public safety communications– Take-up actions to support the risk

management architectures• Future ( tentative) call

– Sustainable development for disaster prone communities

• Integration of the whole risk management chain• All hazard all media alert systems• Built for the most demanding hazard: tsunami

Strategy implementation

Applications enabling projects

Ongoing FP6 Integrated Projects:

• Risk information infrastructure and generic services:– Distributed computing, workflow management,

collaborative working, language issues, ground segment interface; open architecture, thematic applications support, web services, ontology, generic services (ORCHESTRA & WIN) www.eu-orchestra.org & www.win-eu.org

• Emergency management:– C3 systems, full situational awareness integrating

positioning with GIS info and emergency telecom. OASIS project:

• Coordinated by EADS - www.oasis-fp6.org• Command & control system to support response & rescue

operations in large scale emergencies

Situational awareness

Deployment

Fire front

Telecom prototype

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NATURAL DOMINO EMERGING

TECHNOLOGICAL

INSPIRE

DataProviders

ServiceProviders

PublicAdministrations

Civil protection units

Fire-application providers

Flood- application providers

Multi-risk application providers

Core services Ontologies

ORCHESTRA architecture

End users

Raw data

Informationproduct

OASIS technical aspects

• Communication network – Insure the interoperability of all involved

services (local, regional, national, trans-European)

• Information collect and exchange– Seamless digital information flow across all

levels of the hierarchy and between the different emergency actors

• Decision support systems– To propose tools in order to help crisis

managers in their decision process

Future Technologies

• Broadband telecom for PPDR• High altitude platforms for:

– monitoring oil spills– forest fires– flood– traffic– emergency telecom backhaul

• UltraWide band Radio for positioning and communication for emergency situation

• Smart sensors & sensor Web architecture

Aim of Call 5

IST Call 5: (SO 2.5.12): 17/05/05 – 21/09/05

To overcome the market fragmentation by developing systems & services relevant to risk & emergency management which are:

• Interoperable• Open• Evolutionary• Adaptive• Applicable to cross border operations

Approx. Budget 40 million €

Research Theme 1 – Call 5

1. In-situ monitoring (IP & STREPs): – Systems architecture and services ( no sensor

devlpt)– Smart sensors networks with communication

capability (terrestrial and remote sensing HAP )- measurement platforms -focus on generic sensor network architecture

accommodating a wide range of sensors (static and moving).

Based on:– Clear end-user requirements – State of Art and emerging technologies– Cost/benefit analysis

Research Theme 2 – Call 5

2. RTD on public safety communication (IP & STREPs): – robust, secure and computerised early warning

data collection and alert systems; – All media alert communication from the

authorities to the citizen and feedback to the authorities

– rapidly deployable emergency telecommunications systems.

– Using positioning systems Considering:– Safety needs of personnel in the front line; – Enhanced international response to major

disasters; – Communication and positioning also indoors

Research Theme 3 – Call 5

3. Support Actions (SSA/CA) to achieve full interoperability by:

- extending the work on the common information and services infrastructure to the broader scope of environmental stresses

- appropriate mechanisms to support early adoption of a common GMES information and service architecture;

- supporting the convergence effort in the field of public safety communication. ( public safety communication stakeholder forum)

Call 6 – in the making!

• IP - to develop, validate and demonstrate a distributed tsunami early warning and alert system, relevant to Europe & Indian Ocean. – enabling strong collaboration and interoperability across the

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

services, including: data exchange & fusion technologies, computational scenario-building, real-time forecasting, advanced detection through GRID-enabled computing & GEANT-type collaborative networking, interfacing with DSS, and all media broadcasting & telecoms.

– Validation environments need to be established for testing prototype integrated systems and services

• TEWS Workshop – Brussels 12th May 2005

Thank You for your Attention !