Objective
In EU and Australia, every year thousands of square miles of forests and other lands burn due to wildfires. These fires cause important economic and ecological losses, and often, human casualties. Both EU and Australian governments are aware of how crucial it is to improve wildfires’ management and containment . Scientists from different specialties, both in EU and Australia, have already developed methods and models in order to improve the management and decision process pertaining to preparedness and response phases in case of bushfire. The present project, named Geospatial based Environment for Optimisation Systems Addressing Fire Emergencies (GEO SAFE), aims at creating a network enabling the two regions to exchange knowledge, ideas and experience , thus boosting the progress of wildfires knowledge and the related development of innovative methods for dealing efficiently with such fires.
More precisely, the GEO SAFE project will focus on developing the tools enabling to set up an integrated decision support system optimizing the resources during the response phase, through:
• Developing a dynamic risk cartography of a region with regard to the possibility of a wildfire. The task will involve data collection (satellite and remote sensors), risk analysis and development of a tool enabling to forecast fire extension i, and in particular to predict fire and risk evolution during the response phase
• Designing and testing a resource allocation tool for the response phase using the dynamic risk cartography. One of the problems to consider will be the resource allocation for securing key places (schools, hospitals, ….) given time dependent constraints. Problems will be identified through connections with final users, and the proposed solutions will be tested on simulated data.
• Developing analyses of relevant management processes as well as training tools in order to facilitate the implementation of such solutionto be completed
Fields of science
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographycartography
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networks
- social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical model
Programme(s)
Coordinator
SE10 9LS London
United Kingdom
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Participants (16)
67100 L Aquila
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7522 NB Enschede
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20600 Furiani
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13120 Gardanne
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75794 Paris
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08552 Taradell
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
28040 Madrid
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1211 Geneve
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06123 Perugia
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63000 Clermont Ferrand
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60203 Compiegne Cedex
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75775 Paris
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76600 LE HAVRE
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41071 Sevilla
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10129 Torino
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00184 Rome
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Partners (3)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
3001 Melbourne
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
3002 East Melbourne
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
3010 Melbourne
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