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Integrated Technological and Information Platform for wildfire Management

Project description

Climate resilient forest management platform to prevent and suppress forest fire

With forest fires becoming more dangerous and frequent, the EU-funded SILVANUS project will offer a new solution to improve preparedness. TThe key project output is the release of a climate resilient forest management platform to prevent and limit the spread of forest fire. SILVANUS relies on environmental, technical and social sciences experts to support regional and national authorities responsible for wildfire management. The project will develop intelligent fire ignition models using climate and weather data, as well as a stakeholder engagement programme in forest regions to assess fire risk indicators. SILVANUS will also create a training methodology for firefighters, featuring VR and AR training toolkits to simulate real-world environments and life-saving scenarios.

Objective

SILVANUS envisages to deliver an environmentally sustainable and climate resilient forest management platform through innovative capabilities to prevent and combat against the ignition and spread of forest fires. The platform will cater to the demands of efficient resource utilisation and provide protection against threats of wildfires encountered globally. The project will establish synergies between (i) environmental; (ii) technology and (iii) social science experts for enhancing the ability of regional and national authorities to monitor forest resources, evaluate biodiversity, generate more accurate fire risk indicators and promote safety regulations among citizens through awareness campaigns. The novelty of SILVANUS lies in the development and integration of advanced semantic technologies to systematically formalise the knowledge of forest administration and resource utilisation. Additionally, the platform will integrate a big-data processing framework capable of analysing heterogeneous data sources including earth observation resources, climate models and weather data, continuous on-board computation of multi-spectral video streams. Also, the project integrates a series of sensor and actuator technologies using innovative wireless communication infrastructure through the coordination of aerial vehicles and ground robots.
The technological platform will be complemented with the integration of resilience models, and the results of environmental and ecological studies carried out for the assessment of fire risk indicators based on continuous surveys of forest regions. The surveys are designed to take into consideration the expertise and experience of frontline fire fighter organisations who collectively provide support for 47,504x104 sq. meters of forest area within Europe and across international communities. The project innovation will be validated through 11 pilot demonstrations across Europe and internationally using a two sprint cycle.

Call for proposal

H2020-LC-GD-2020

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Sub call

H2020-LC-GD-2020-3

Coordinator

UNIVERSITA TELEMATICA PEGASO S.R.L.
Net EU contribution
€ 446 384,91
Address
CENTRO DIREZIONALE ISOLA F2 SNC
80143 NAPOLI
Italy

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Region
Sud Campania Napoli
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 637 692,73

Participants (54)