Prevention, Information and Early Warning pre-operational services to support the management of risks (PREVIEW)

Projects

European FP5, FP6, FP7 FP6

Partners: Ministère de l’Intérieur (Direction de la Défense et de la Sécurité Civiles), DDSC, France., Meteo France, MF, France., Telespazio, TPZ, Italy., Swedish Rescue Services Agency, SRSA, Sweden., Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri – Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, DPC, Italy., Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, Sweden., Met Office, METO, United Kingdom., European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecast, ECMWF, United Kingdom., Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Italy., Università degli Studi di Firenze (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra), UNIFI, Italy., Joint Research Centre, JRC, Italy., • IPSC: Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizens, • IES: Institute of Environment and Sustainability, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, CNES, France., Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales, S.A., INSA, Spain., Infoterra GmbH, ITD, Germany., Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR, Italy., • IRPI: Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica,, • IMAA: Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale,, • IREA: Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente, Advanced Computer Systems, ACS, Italy., Agenzia regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente dell’Emilia Romagna, ARPA-SIM, Italy., Agenzia regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente Ligure, ARPAL CMIRL, Italy., Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, BFG, Germany., Bayerisches Landesamt für Wasserwirtschaft, BLFW, Germany., Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario in Monitoraggio Ambientale, CIMA, Italy., Critical Software, SA, CSW, Portugal., Stichting Waterloopkundig Laboratorium, WL-Delft, Netherlands., DEIMOS Engenharia, DPT, Portugal., EADS Defence and Security Systems SA, EADS DS SA, France., DEUTSCHER WETTER DIENST, DWD, Germany., European mediterranean Seismological Centre, EMSC, Europe., Finnish Meteorological Institute, FMI, Finland., Universidad de Valladolid (Remote Sensing Laboratory), FUNGE UVA, Spain., GEOAPIKONISIS Ltd, GEOAP, Greece., GEOMER GmbH, GMER, Germany., GMV SA, GMV, Spain., GEOSCIENCES CONSULTANTS Sarl, GSC, France., Universität Karlsruhe (TH), IMK, Germany., Leibnitz-Institut für Oekologische Raumentwicklung e.V, IÖR, Germany., Universität Stuttgart (Institut für Wasserbau / Lehrstuhl für Hydrologie und Geohydrologie), USTUTT, Germany., BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY (Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute), KOERI, Turkey., Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 (Laboratoire d’étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement), LTHE, France., Meteoswiss (Federal office of meteorology and climatology), Switzerland., LANTMAETERIET, METRIA, Sweden., METEOROLOGISK INSTITUTT, MET-NO, Norway., National Observatory of Athens, NOA, Greece., • IERSD: Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, • IG: Institute of Geodynamics, NOVELTIS, NOV, France., PLANETEK ITALIA SRL, PLK, Italy., REGIONE LOMBARDIA (Direzione Generale Territorio e Urbanistica), SG-LOMB, France., Université Louis Pasteur (Service Régional de Traitement d’Images et de Télédétection), ULP SERTIT, France., SWEDISH GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE, SGI, Sweden., REGIONE LOMBARDIA ( Direzione Generale Agricoltura), SOSA-LOMB, Italy., TECNOSYLVA, SL, TSYL, Spain., University of Alcala de Henares (Department of Geography), UAH, Spain., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, UCM, Spain., VITUKI (Environmental Protection and Water Management Research Institute), VITUKI, Hungary., Agenzia regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Piemonte, ARPA Piemonte, Italy., United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS/UNOSAT), UNOPS, Switzerland., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Laboratoire d’Energétique de Mécanique Théorique et Appliquée), CNRS LEMTA, France.

Project website: http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/84627_en.html

Project email: paola.reichenbach (at) irpi.cnr.it

01/04/2005 - 31/12/2008

Involved offices: Perugia, Padova

Internal contact person: Paola Reichenbach

Email: paola.reichenbach@cnr.it

Background

PREVIEW is an integrated project by the European Commission 6th Framework Programme, led by the EURORISK Consortium, a multi-disciplinary European Team of committing Actors of the domain: Civil Protections and Environmental Bodies; Scientific communities and Service operators, at national and regional level, for Meteorology, Hydrology, Seismology, Volcanology and GIS services based on Space data; and Industry. The project was organized around a core team of partners coming from 6 countries and from European organizations, leading all the project activities according to a common methodology and performing the necessary transverse actions to ensure the harmonization, the standardization and the global and long term view of the resulting services. PREVIEW address the definition, the development and the validation in pre-operational conditions of information services to support the management in all phases (Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery) of: Windstorms, Forest fires, Plain floods and Flash floods, Earthquake & Volcanic risks, Landslides and Industrial accidents. Based on the review of the operational needs and of the existing research assets, a Portfolio of Services was defined in close cooperation with end-users. Research developments were performed to transfer the most promising available results and blocks to operational use. The information services were developed, tested and validated at European scale with operational users on pilot test sites.

Purpose

PREVIEW developed, at the European scale, new or enhanced information services for risk management in support of European Civil Protection Units and local or regional authorities, making the best use of the most advanced research and technology outcomes in Earth Observation. Services will be validated under pre-operational conditions.

Methods

Different methods have been exploited and applied for the natural and man-made hazard evaluation and management.

Results

A comprehensive service portfolio for natural and man-made hazard management. The aim of the EC-funded Preview project was the development of information services necessary for the management of not only natural disasters, but also man-made hazards like industrial accidents. These information services include vulnerability mapping, risk assessment, early warning and damage assessment.

Products

A series of handbooks developed within the project for the following information services: the ‘Windstorms’, ‘Forest fires’, ‘Landslides’, ‘Floods’, ‘Earthquakes and volcanoes’, ‘Man-made risks’ and ‘Rapid mapping and asset mapping’ service. These new or enhanced information services for risk forecasting and management as well as damage assessment aim to provide support to European civil protection units, local and regional authorities.

Conclusions

The handbooks developed within the project, provide a comprehensive presentation of each service (concept and end-user requirements, expected benefits, scope of use). The exportability of all services across Europe is studied, as well as the drivers at local, regional, national or European level that could lever their deployment.

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