The TREEADS project addresses several major challenges that wildfires pose, including current technological and infrastructural restrictions and severe environmental, societal, and economic consequences. The TREEADS fire management ecosystem will include various innovative technologies and systems covering all time-interconnected stages of wildfires (before, during, and after). Over 26 different technologies are optimized, developed, and validated in the implementation of TREEADS, including coordinated novel pilotless aircraft (multi-rotor and fixed wing) and satellite systems, an advanced analytical and modeling framework for fire prevention, detection, and response, forest and landscape restoration and an emerging set of fire protection and suppression technologies. Expected results are, among others, the minimization of the significant impacts caused by extreme fires and experience strengthening for end-users within a rich set of realistic scenarios via the project’s training programme. In TREEADS, we focus our research, development, and integration efforts on delivering systems of high relevance and benefit to the relevant end-users and the forestry market while providing them, in turn, with an excellent opportunity to understand potential weaknesses or limitations of current technologies. The TREEADS tools and solutions are demonstrated and validated under actual operating conditions in eight complex pilot implementations in Taiwan and seven European countries: Austria, Norway, Spain, Italy, Romania, Greece, and Germany. The project is also carrying out a disciplined assessment of the impact of the developed technologies based on methods that consider both social and financial aspects (e.g. Social Return on Investment (S-ROI)).
We have the specific objectives listed below.
Objective 1: "Improving the efficiency of current fire-fighting operations", (Addressed in WP2-WP8).
Objective 2: "Advancing operational reaction and mitigation algorithms", (Addressed in WP4).
Objective 3: "Deploying, validating, and testing the solution in realistic live demonstrations over 8 different climate scenarios, biogeographical/socio-economic contexts",(Addressed in WP4, WP5, WP6, and WP8).
Objective 4: "Protecting human lives, the environment and the property",(Addressed in WP4, and WP5).
