Project description ICT for environmental services and climate change adaptation Show the project objective Hide the project objective More than two thirds of European cities are regularly confronted with climate change induced disasters. Early Warning Systems (EWS) play a crucial role in mitigating the effects of such disasters by detecting conditions which forecast the onset of a catastrophe and to compute its impact. EWSs provide alarming, decision support and information services to governments, companies and the general public.The UrbanFlood project creates an internet based hosting platform for EWSs. The EWS platform is run as an Internet service and connects via the Internet to sensor networks, to online sources of information and other EWSs. The platform is able to host multiple EWSs, corresponding to various hazards and belonging to different organizations. Through the Internet, additional computer resources required by the EWS platform are made available on demand. Artificial intelligence technologies detect alarming conditions in the objects monitored. In an alarming situation, a decision support system, making use of computational models of the physical environmental, informs stakeholders about the developing catastrophe. The core of the EWS hosting platform is a Common Information Space (CIS). The CIS is run as an online service, supports web service technologies and connects via the internet with other CISs. The EWS is also able to process simulated (data), turning the EWS into a simulator with which disaster mitigation scenarios can be developed and personnel can be trained.UrbanFlood validates the EWS framework in the context of dike failures and ensued flooding in an urban environment. Dikes are equipped with sensor systems and the EWS service is built up from a series of dike failure and flooding specific modules, including 3D/pseudo 4D dike evolution and flood-spreading models. Soon after the start of the project dikes in major European cities will be monitored.UrbanFlood investigates to which extent it is feasible to remotely monitor dikes and floods from other countries and continents. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorssmart sensorssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commercenatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2009.6.4 - ICT for environmental services and climate change adaptation Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2009-4 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO Address Anna van buerenplein 1 2595 DA Den haag Netherlands See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Elly Van den Akker-Blaazer (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 962 125,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all STICHTING TOEGEPAST ONDERZOEK WATERBEHEER Netherlands EU contribution € 261 273,00 Address Arthur van schendelstraat 3503 RD Utrecht See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Ludolph Wentholt (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Netherlands EU contribution € 396 275,00 Address Spui 21 1012WX Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Vanessa Wolters (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE Poland EU contribution € 289 560,00 Address Al adama mickiewicza 30 30-059 Krakow See on map Region Makroregion południowy Małopolskie Miasto Kraków Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Witold Marton-Domeyko (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window SIEMENS OOO Russia EU contribution € 335 561,00 Address Bolshaya tatarskaya 115184 Moskva See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Bernhard Lang (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window HR WALLINGFORD LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 745 750,00 Address Howbery park OX10 8BA Wallingford See on map Region South East (England) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Oxfordshire Administrative Contact Tracey Williamson (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
