Objective The project will provide a delivery vehicle and an information service to support the emergency planning and management functions of the Civil Protection Agencies. Civil Protection Agencies such as the Police, Fire, Ambulance and Local Authorities are responsible for the control of incidents such as floods, major fires, pollution incidents, air crashes and similar events. Such situations routinely involve the co-ordination and control of disparate resources operating in scattered but related geographical locations. The incident managers require detailed and timely information about a wide range of geographically located objects. The increasing complexity of the users task, together with the scale of information requirement indicates that active decision support mechanisms are becoming increasingly necessary. Decision errors in this environment have high potential public and private costs in terms of increased risk to life and failure to moderate disaster losses. This requirement exists at all levels in all countries although the complexity of the problem is greatest in populated industrialised communities. Most agencies still use paper based geographic information supplemented with simple text based information files in either computers or conventional systems. Much of the data requirement is currently in disparate and non standardised formats. The project will integrate a number ;of existing systems and meld them into a new product and related service targeted at the Civil Protection Agencies. The product will be a major incident decision support system. It will comprise of an object oriented geographical database system which has the capability of storing information and images about real world and temporal objects which are spatially related. The system will have active decision support capabilities. The delivery system consists of Small World, an object oriented geographic facility which acts as the core of the system. It's current display capabilities will be supplemented with the ability to store fractally based images. The total package includes the seamless integration of field data collection and delivery capabilities using standardised interfaces. The project aims to assist in the current moves at standardising the description of objects in this domain area. The project team includes technical and subject experts in the database, GIS, image, data collection and user subject areas. The prototype will be tested in two user areas. The major incident element in Scotland and the Post earthquake planning in Greece. The implementation phase will culminate in the production of concrete commercial products of a delivery facility, a database population service, application expertise and technical support service. Programme(s) IS-IMPACT 2 - Programme (EEC) for the establishment of an internal information services market, 1991-1995 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Frax Ltd EU contribution No data Address South Backburn Netherley Stonehaven United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Grampian Regional Council United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Westburn Road AB9 2LU Aberdeen See on map Total cost No data Organ for Planning Environment Protection of Athens Greece EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data SYSTEMA INFORMATICS LTD Greece EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Smallworld Systems Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data