Project description
Integrated satellite systems for first responders’ support
Natural disasters like hurricanes, fires, floods, and earthquakes pose serious threats to global society. Space assets and drones play a critical role in emergency response and disaster management by offering rapid surveillance and precise mapping to locate people and assets. In this context, the EU-funded EUSATFINDER project will deliver an integrated, scalable solution to support first responders and enhance citizens’ well-being by using satellite systems during emergencies. The project will demonstrate the effectiveness of three major European space programmes (GOVSATCOM, Copernicus, and Galileo). It will use three GOVSATCOM resources and explore interfacing with the GOVSATCOM HUB, enabling stakeholders to access a shared pool of SATCOM resources for improved crisis management.
Objective
Natural disasters - intended as hurricanes, landslides, fires, avalanches, flooding, earthquakes, industrial accidents, terroristic attacks, eruptions, pollution, etc… - have been seriously threatening the well-being of the global society. Over the past 50 years, more than 11,000 disasters have been attributed to weather, climate and water-related hazards, involving 2 million deaths.
In this context Space assets and remotely piloted aircraft (drones) play a crucial role in emergency response and disaster management. First responders ask for a quick to deploy in-situ solution based on resilient and robust infrastructure to perform accurate mapping and extended surveillance for people and assets localisation.
Accordingly, EUSATfinder is about demonstrating the effectiveness of a synergic use of three main European space programs, namely GOVSATCOM, Copernicus and Galileo in such critical situations. Three (3) GOVSATCOM resources will be used, namely ATHENA FIDUS Italina and French payload and VHTS Konnect from Eutelsat. Interfacing versus GOVSATCOM HUB will be also studied so that stakeholders may benefit of common pool of SATCOM resources (capacity and services) to face a situation crisis management.
The purpose of the EUSATfinder is to provide an innovative integrated and scalable solution to support first responders in real-life during different operational phases and improving citizens wellbeing. In particular, in the tactical phase, EUSATfinder aims at improving the intervention capability and reducing the reaction time using shared capacities from different governmental and private satellite systems interoperable with terrestrial communication services.
The above introduced objectives confer to the EUSATfinder project a worldwide dimension, having European public authorities, industries and research centres with the clear role to bring innovation and know-how to allow an effective crisis area management in emergency situations worldwide.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsdrones
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
00198 ROMA
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.