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Alpine Safety, Security And Information Services and Technologies (ASSIST)

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ASSIST aimed at improving the capabilities of risk warning and risk management in the Alpine region by implementing an integrated pre-operational service based on existing precursor services and related infrastructure. Some 30% of the EU territory consist of 30 million inhabitants encompassing numerous mountain ranges or chains. The overall objective of the project was to specify, design, implement and validate a generic solution for the production and exchange of data products used for risk prevention and risk event management. The project focused on risks typical to mountainous areas e.g. avalanches, landslides, debris flows, floods, etc. The backbone of the overall concept are so-called Service Nodes. These nodes are autonomously operated by organisations responsible for risk management. The Service Nodes are capable to request and ingest raw input data, process the input data into products suitable for risk prevention/crisis management, distribute the products within the User Network (fixed/mobile regional risk management centres and - if required - to the mobile staff), exchange products with other Service Nodes operated by different organisations (e.g. police, hospitals, air resc ue, fire fighters). These Service Nodes were mapped to support a) day-to-day monitoring and predictions of risk mitigation scenarios b) operation during concrete crisis situations. The Assist project proposed a flexible information service which combines data from satellites with ground observations with airborne and meteorological data to help improve services delivered by risk management centres. In, particular, newly developed algorithms have shown the benefits obtained from the combined use of all-weather synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and high resolution optical data. Main findings can be found in the project final report.

Project information

Lead

VCS Aktiengesellschaft

Partners

SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE * TELE+ITALIA S.N.C * JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGES.M.B.H. * GAMMA REMOTE SENSING RESEARCH AND CONSULTING * TELEMATICA E.K.* ALPINE SAFETY AND INFORMATION CENTRE

Source of funding

FP6

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Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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