The following projects have investigated the emergency domain over the past years. Other examples of projects can be found in the project database available on this website.
Respond
Respond is an alliance of European and International organisations working with the humanitarian community to improve access to maps, satellite imagery and geographic information.
Respond provides:
- Guaranteed access to global mapping for crisis hotspots
- Access to an archive of detailed base mapping and thematic mapping
- Access to rapid assessment maps for major crisis
Respond has been funded by the European Space Agency.
For more information, please visit the Respond website
RISK-EOS
RISK-EOS is a network of European service providers delivering geo-information services to support the management of flood, fire and other risk throughout all phases (Prevention, Early warning, Crisis, Post crisis). The service portfolio includes:
- Assets mapping
- Flood risk analysis
- Flash flood early warning
- Flood rapid mapping
- Fire rapid mapping
- Regional fire monitoring
- Burn scar mapping
- Flood risk analysis
RISK-EOS has been funded by the European Space Agency.
For more information, please visit the RISK-EOS website
PREVIEW
In addition to horizontal assets mapping and rapid mapping services, PREVIEW has developed thematic services for risk management in order to face the following hazards:
- Floods (long/medium/short/very short range plain forecasting, northern flood forecasting)
- Forest fires (fuel parameters, fire danger indexes, fire meteo indices, fire monitoring, fire propagator, fire damage assessment)
- Windstorms (windstorm hazard mapping, windstorm forecasting)
- Earthquakes and volcanoes (monitoring, damage evaluation),
- Landslides (prediction of shallow rapid slope movements, monitoring of slow moving landslides)
- Man-made risks (dispersion forecasting of hazardous substances).
PREVIEW has been co-funded by the European Commission.
For more information, please visit the PREVIEW website
ORCHESTRA
ORCHESTRA is designing and implementing the specifications for a service oriented spatial data infrastructure for improved interoperability among risk management authorities in Europe.
The ORCHESTRA Architecture is open and based on standards. Its specifications are contained in a document called the Reference Model–ORCHESTRA Architecture (RM-OA) which is open and free of charge, and can be downloaded from the project website.
ORCHESTRA has been co-funded by the European Commission.
For more information, please visit the ORCHESTRA website
OSIRIS
OSIRIS addresses the monitoring, preparation and response phases of environmental risk and crisis management.
OSIRIS provides a Service Oriented Architecture based on standards and delivering functions ranging from in-situ earth observation to user services. The project covers four key areas of major environmental risk:
- Forest fires
- Industrial risks
- Unexpected fresh water pollution
- Air pollution in urban areas
OSIRIS has been co-funded by the European Commission.
For more information, please visit the OSIRIS website