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

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 applications To 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) & Emergency management: –C3 systems, full situational awareness integrating positioning with GIS info and emergency telecom. OASIS project: Coordinated by EADS - Command & control system to support response & rescue operations in large scale emergencies

Situational awareness Deployment Fire front Telecom prototype

System users NATURALDOMINOEMERGING TECHNOLOGICAL INSPIRE Data Providers Service Providers Public Administrations Civil protection units Fire-application providers Flood- application providers Multi-risk application providers Core services Ontologies ORCHESTRA architecture End users Raw data Information product

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 ): 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

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