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Floods and fire risk assessment and management (FLIRE)
Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,
Background
Floods and forest fires can be among the most devastating natural disasters, causing severe socioeconomic impacts, including loss of life, the destruction of private and public property and the disruption of economic activities and cultural heritage.
Floods and fires also contribute to the degradation of Europe's ecosystem services. This ecolo ...
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Mediterranean fuel maps geodatabase for wildland & forest fire safety (ArcFUEL)
Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,
Background
Effective forest fire (FF) management requires knowledge of Fuel Classification Maps (FCMs), which are not widely available in Mediterranean countries for the following reasons:
They are produced only at local or regional scale, without any regular updates and no standardised methodology;
They are not produced according to a standard structur ...
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Emergency Support System (ESS)
Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,
"The Emergency Support System (ESS) is a suite of real-time data-centric technologies which will provide actionable information to crisis managers during abnormal events. This information will enable improved control and management, resulting in real time synchronization between forces on the ground (police, rescue, firefighters) and out-of-theater command and control centers (C&C). The approach g ...
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Increasing EU citizen Security by utilizing innovAtive intelligent signal processing systems For Euro-coin validation and metal quality testing (SafeMetal)
Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
Euro coinage has been steadily subject to increasing outlawed counterfeiting activities. The most recent figures bring to 14 the number of illegal mints discovered to date, accompanied with a significant cumulative total of counterfeit coins detected or confiscated. Over 80 classes of counterfeit coins and corresponding tooling and working methods are identified, which by European Technical and Sc ...
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Open Source Modelling and Hardware Software Codesign of Embedded Systems (OSMOSIS)
Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,
"Europe has a strong leadership in the domains of intelligent communications, multimedia, and automotive systems. However, the exponential increase in complexity threatens the European competitiveness. Current challenges when designing mixed HW/SW embedded systems are (1) mastering the complexity of the integration between the HW and the SW parts, (2) shortening time-to-market, and (3) reducing de ...
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Scenarios for hazard emergencies management (SCHEMA)
Start date: Aug 1, 2007, End date: Jul 31, 2010,
A consortium of 11 organisations proposes a research project involving international cooperation: they aim at using earth observation data to develop a generic methodology able to help experts build vulnerability and hazard impact maps associated with tsunamis. Involving Morocco and Bulgaria, GEOSCIENCES will coordinate the design and development of this vulnerability map creation technique which ...
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