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NCP
Call 5 meeting
June 2, 2005
ICT for Environmental Risk Management
Information Society & Media DG
European Commission, Brussels
Guy Weets
Deputy 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
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
Alert
Reconstruction
•Spatial planning
•Re-establishing life-lines
transport &communication
infrastructure
Post Disaster
•Lessons learnt
•Scenario update
•Socio-economic and environmental
impact assessment
•Real time monitoring
& forecasting
•Early warning
•Secure &dependable telecom
•Scenario identification
• all media alarm
Response
•Emergency telecommunication
•Situational awareness, crisis maps
•Command control coordination
•Information communication
•Dispatching of resources
•Early damage assessment….
The IST Approach
• To promote the development of cost-effective
sustainable services
– Technology integration – solution driven
– Specific technological developments
– Market & user needs driven
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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 applications
To decrease the development and maintenance
cost
Whilst improving the reliability scalability and
interoperability
ICT for environmental risk management
Strategic approach 2
4. To support large scale pilot test with endusers
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
ICT for environmental risk management
Strategy implementation
• 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
ICT for environmental risk management
Strategy implementation
• 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
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
Fire front
Deployment
Telecom prototype
ORCHESTRA architecture
Information
product
End users
Public
Administrations
Civil protection
units
System users
Flood- application
providers
Fire-application
providers
Data
Providers
Core services
Service
Providers
Ontologies
NATURAL
DOMINO
TECHNOLOGICAL
Raw data
Multi-risk
application providers
INSPIRE
EMERGING
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 !