Transcript EU-Project „IDIRA“ and CAP Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop 2012 1st – 3rd May 2012, Montréal, Canada Marcel Heckel Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure.

EU-Project „IDIRA“ and CAP
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop 2012
1st – 3rd May 2012, Montréal, Canada
Marcel Heckel
Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (IVI)
Germany
Project Overview
 Project full title: Interoperability of data and procedures in large-scale
multinational disaster response actions
 Project start date: May 1st, 2011
 Project duration: 48 months
 Project budget: EUR 10.925.164,35
 Consortium: 18 organization from 7 countries
European situation
 Large scale disaster
happened repeatedly
 Floods
 Large fires
© Ralf Roletschek
 Earth quakes
 Multinational help was needed
 How to manage of efforts from
different countries effectively!?
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Existing barriers
 Administrative level
 Structures
 Legal background/mandates
 Resource management
 Command and control level
 Procedures
 Information handling
 Field operations level
 Language
 Communication systems
 Equipment
Overcome barriers
 Usage of official standards for information exchange
 Definition of standards → long process
 Usage of excising standards!
 CAP, EDXL-SitRep, RSS/ATOM, EDXL-RM, TSO, …
 Combine data of different standards
RSS/ATOM
CAP
EDXL-RM
TSO
EDXL-SitRep
Combined
information
CAP?
 Support for user defined codes
 E.g. Canadian Profile
 No profile for any European country
 TSO (Tactical Situation Object)
 Contains a catalog of term for events and resources
 /GND/EQK – Earth quake
 /FLD/FLS – Flash flood
Overcome barriers
 23 official languages inside the EU
 Machine translation is unreliable
 Structured Communication for text messages
 Semantic text block
 Translated in advance
 Parameters
CAP?
 Create messages in different languages
 standardized catalogue of event code doesn’t have to be big
 Event described as text!
 No standardization of semantic text blocks needed
 Easy extendable
 Recipients need not to know about any codes
Questions?
 Contact: [email protected]
Fraunhofer IVI
Zeunerstraße 38
01069 Dresden
Germany
MobiKAT
 Lightweight (mobile) geographic information system for emergency
organizations
 Tactical planning
 Decision support
 Operational picture/map
 www.mobikat.net