ICT for the Environment

1. ICT for the Environment • Long term objective: To contribute to environmental policies from definition to monitoring To help achieve world-class environment administration in the EU by enhancing their efficiency, openness and accountability To help creating a EU market for ICT applications and services

2. History of the action • FP5 Exploratory action in environmental applications • Broad scope: air, water, soil, noise, natural disasters • Mixed results and a few outstanding projects: • APNEE, HEAVEN, EDEN-IW, I-MARQ, DISMAR, HARMONOISE, SEWING, EGERIS, FORMIDABLE, EOLES • FP6 Focus on disaster management • Good intermediate results: ORCHESTRA OASIS, MITRA • FP7 Focus on sustainability

3. FP6 ICT for environmental risk management FP6 objectives • To contribute to the deployment of an eINFRASTRUCTURE for risk management in Europe • To promote the development of cost-effective ICT services for disaster mitigation • System integration – solution driven • Specific technological developments when needed • Market & user needs driven • Focus on generic solutions • Re-usable software components • Open source software • Interoperability, scalability • Based on state-of-the-art risk and environment science

4. ICT for environmental risk management The strategic approach 1. • to cover the whole risk management cycle. Risk assessment, preparedness, early warning, alert, response, recovery, lessons learnt etc. • to cover all environmental hazards, including systemic risks / cascading risks • to focus on system architecture rather than specific applications To decrease the development and maintenance cost whilst improving reliability, scalability and interoperability

5. ICT for environmental risk management Strategic approach 2 • To support large scale pilot test with end-users • To foster pre-standardisation activities as an integral part of RTD • To promote open source as a mean to improve the uptake of RTD results • To contribute to the relevant EU policies and actions: INSPIRE, GMES, GEOSS

6. FP6 Environmental risk management • 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 • Alert • Real time monitoring • & forecasting • Early warning • Scenario identification • all media alarm • Secure &dependable telecom • Post Disaster • Lessons learnt • Scenario update • Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment • Spatial re-planning • Response • Emergency telecommunication • Command control coordination • Situational awareness, crisis maps • Information communication • Dispatching of resources • Recovery • Early damage assessment • Re-establishing life-lines transport &communication infrastructure

7. ICT for environmental risk management Strategy implementation • Structuring projects : IPs • Innovative projects : STREPs • Call 2 (42 M€) • eINFRASTRUCTURE for risk management • Interoperability of geo-spatial data • Service architecture • Improved emergency management • Command control coordination • Full situational awareness • In a multi-lingual/cultural environment

8. FP6 ICT for environmental risk management Strategy implementation Call 5 (46 M€) • Sensor network architecture • Public safety communications ( alert) • Take-up actions to support the risk management architectures • Call 6 (5 M€) • Tsunami early warning and alert system • Integration of the whole risk management chain • All hazard all media alert systems • Significant international cooperation, IOC,NOAA … • Contribution to GEOSS

9. Call 6 • Toward an integrated tsunami early warning and alert system.( STREP + SSA) funding 5 M€ • enabling strong collaboration and interoperability across the whole disaster-reduction cycle. • based on the integration of advanced ICT systems and services to meet the needs of local, regional and basin wide TEWS • Alert communications making use of all media broadcasting & telecoms. • Validation environments for testing prototype integrated systems and services • SSAs CAs to support technology transfer and sharing best practices

10. FP7: ICT for Sustainable development • Continue risk management activities • vulnerability management • regional and city planning • critical infrastructure ( non ICT ) • humanitarian crisis • Environment and health • air pollution indoor and outdoor, • water and soil pollution, waste management, • linking environment and health IS, • disease control • Renewable resources management • managed biodiversity, eco-accounting • ICT for energy efficiency

11. Technical development • Integration of observing systems in service oriented architecture, workflow management (eInfrastructure) • Multi-resolution, multi-topology data management • Data archiving and data legacy • Techniques for highly distributed processing and modelling ( eco-systems simulation) • Information systems for planning, decision support under uncertainty, • Semantic based engines for environmental data browsing and analysis in a highly distributed environment • 4D visualization techniques • Data traceability , quality standards for data production and transformation • Autonomous intelligent sensors for early warning systems

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