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2005-2006 Work Programme
2.5.12 ICT for Environmental Risk Management
Objectives
This Strategic Objective covers ICT aspects of services for GMES (Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security1) end-users and those aspects that are relevant to the monitoring, the preparation and the response phases of environmental risk/crisis management co-ordinated at European level.
Focus
The work will focus on risks leading to emergencies and/or environmental crises such as natural hazards or industrial accidents.
- GMES in-situ monitoring systems, in particular based on self-organising, self-healing, ad-hoc networking of sensors using state-of-the-art and/or emerging technology. Terrestrial and aircraft-based sensor networks (possibly complemented by work on Medium- and High-Altitude Platforms) for both (a) sensor platforms in general and (b) communications backhaul during crisis/emergency operations. GMES related work should address specific in-situ measurement as well as measurement needed to validate remote sensing data. The provision of ICT-based in-situ monitoring infrastructure and services should be based on clear end-user requirements; the technological choices should be based on a longer term cost/benefit analysis.
Instruments: IPs, STREPs
- RTD on public safety communication will include work on the integration of (i) alert systems, (ii) communication to and from the citizen and (iii) rapidly deployable emergency telecommunications systems. The safety needs of local personnel in the front line as well as the specific need to enhance international response to major disasters must be considered. Further development of communication and localisation systems usable also inside buildings (including spectrum allocation and interference issues) should also be considered.
Instruments: IPs, STREPs
- Actions to support the early adoption of common open architectures and other convergence efforts to achieve full interoperability:
- By extending on-going work on environmental risk and emergency management to the broader scope of environmental degradation
- By implementing appropriate mechanisms to support early adoption og GMES information and service architecture
- By supporting the convergence effort in the field of public safety communication.
Those actions shall build on existing European initiatives2.
Instruments: CAs, SSAs, STREPs
- Instruments:
- see above, taking into account that research and development impacting on systems architecture standards and large-scale demonstrators such as GMES initial services and IT infrastructures is better implemented through IPs.
- Indicative budget:
- IPs: 60% STREPs, CAs, SSAs: 40%
- Call information:
- IST Call 5
1http://www.gmes.info/
2These include not only IST projects but also other relevant projects under priorities 4 and 6, ESA and Member States projects