EUProject IDIRA and CAP Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop

EU-Project „IDIRA“ and CAP Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop 2012 1 st – 3 rd May 2012, Montréal, Canada Marcel Heckel Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (IVI) Germany

Project Overview n Project full title: Interoperability of data and procedures in large-scale multinational disaster response actions n Project start date: May 1 st, 2011 n Project duration: 48 months n Project budget: EUR 10. 925. 164, 35 n Consortium: 18 organization from 7 countries

European situation n Large scale disaster happened repeatedly n Floods n Large fires © Ralf Roletschek n Earth quakes n Multinational help was needed n How to manage of efforts from different countries effectively!? © enpasedecentrale

Existing barriers n Administrative level n Structures n Legal background/mandates n Resource management n Command control level n Procedures n Information handling n Field operations level n Language n Communication systems n Equipment

Overcome barriers n Usage of official standards for information exchange n Definition of standards → long process n Usage of excising standards! n CAP, EDXL-Sit. Rep, RSS/ATOM, EDXL-RM, TSO, … n Combine data of different standards RSS/ATOM CAP EDXL-RM TSO EDXL-Sit. Rep Combined information

CAP? n Support for user defined codes n E. g. Canadian Profile n No profile for any European country n TSO (Tactical Situation Object) n Contains a catalog of term for events and resources n /GND/EQK – Earth quake n /FLD/FLS – Flash flood

Overcome barriers n 23 official languages inside the EU n Machine translation is unreliable n Structured Communication for text messages n Semantic text block n Translated in advance n Parameters

CAP? n Create messages in different languages n standardized catalogue of event code doesn’t have to be big n Event described as text! n No standardization of semantic text blocks needed n Easy extendable n Recipients need not to know about any codes

Questions? n Contact: marcel. heckel@ivi. fraunhofer. de Fraunhofer IVI Zeunerstraße 38 01069 Dresden Germany

Mobi. KAT n Lightweight (mobile) geographic information system for emergency organizations n Tactical planning n Decision support n Operational picture/map n www. mobikat. net