eu-project „idira“ and cap emergency alerting policy workshop 2012 1 st – 3 rd may 2012,...
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EU-Project „IDIRA“ and CAP
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop 2012
1st – 3rd May 2012, Montréal, Canada
Marcel HeckelFraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (IVI) Germany
Project Overview
Project full title: Interoperability of data and procedures in large-scale multinational disaster response actions
Project start date: May 1st, 2011
Project duration: 48 months
Project budget: EUR 10.925.164,35
Consortium: 18 organization from 7 countries
European situation
Large scale disaster happened repeatedly
Floods
Large fires
Earth quakes
Multinational help was needed
How to manage of efforts from different countries effectively!?
© Ralf Roletschek
© enpasedecentrale
Administrative level Structures Legal background/mandates Resource management
Command and control level Procedures Information handling
Field operations level Language Communication systems Equipment
Existing barriers
RSS/ATOM
TSO
Overcome barriers
Usage of official standards for information exchange
Definition of standards → long process
Usage of excising standards!
CAP, EDXL-SitRep, RSS/ATOM, EDXL-RM, TSO, …
Combine data of different standards
EDXL-SitRep
CAPEDXL-RM
Combined information
CAP?
Support for user defined codes
E.g. Canadian Profile
No profile for any European country
TSO (Tactical Situation Object)
Contains a catalog of term for events and resources
/GND/EQK – Earth quake
/FLD/FLS – Flash flood
Overcome barriers
23 official languages inside the EU
Machine translation is unreliable
Structured Communication for text messages
Semantic text block
Translated in advance
Parameters
CAP?
Create messages in different languages
standardized catalogue of event code doesn’t have to be big
Event described as text!
No standardization of semantic text blocks needed
Easy extendable
Recipients need not to know about any codes
MobiKAT
Lightweight (mobile) geographic information system for emergency organizations
Tactical planning
Decision support
Operational picture/map
www.mobikat.net