Objective PREFER aims at responding to major fire prevention needs in Southern Europe. All reports on the state of Europe’s forests indicate that the broad Mediterranean area is systematically affected by uncontrolled forest fires with large impact on ecosystems, soil erosion, slope instability, desertification trends, and local economies as a whole, whit a negative mid-to-long term prospect because of Climate Change. In this scenario, the need to improve the information and the intelligence support to forest fire prevention is widely recognized to be relevant. Fire prevention is still the most cost-effective strategy when compared to firefighting and extinguishing that are costly, local, and triggered only in response to already ongoing crises. PREFER intends to contribute to responding to such a pragmatic need of Southern Europe’s forests by : 1) providing timely multi-scale and multi-payload information products based on exploitation of all available spaceborne sensors within the project time frame (the next 3 years) ; 2) offering a portfolio of EO products focused both on Pre-crisis and Post-crisis forest fire emergency cycle in the EU Mediterranean area; 3) preparing the exploitation of new spaceborne sensors available by 2020 (e.g. : Sentinels) and 4) contributing to the definition of User requirements for the new EO missions. PREFER capitalizes on the experience gained in the last decade by the Partners, in the frame of European and national applied research programs focusing on the management of forest fire hazards with spaceborne observation means. It will set up a regional service, able to process and distribute the information to end users, developed and maintained by a regional R&D cluster of core users, industries and research institutes. Through the exploitation of the synoptic character of spaceborne EO data, the regional service is intended to stimulate further the coordination between countries on forest fires prevention in the EU Mediterranean region. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Programme(s) FP7-SPACE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space Topic(s) SPA.2012.1.1-04 - Support to emergency response management Call for proposal FP7-SPACE-2012-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA Address Piazzale aldo moro 5 00185 Roma Italy See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Giovanni Laneve (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all OHB ITALIA SPA Italy EU contribution € 327 512,88 Address Via gallarate 150 20151 Milano See on map Region Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Silvia Prodanova Hristova (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INTELLIGENCE FOR ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY - IES CONSULTING SRL Italy EU contribution € 226 400,00 Address Via di san valentino 34 00197 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Administrative Contact Barbara Hirn (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE SA Spain EU contribution € 277 180,00 Address Calle isaac newton parque tecnologico de madrid 28760 Tres cantos See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Javier Martínez Cendejas (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data SATWAYS-OLOKLIROMENES LYSEIS ASFALEIAS KAI AMYNAS-IDIOTIKI EPICHEIRISI PAROCHIS YPIRESION ASFALEIAS (IEPYA)-ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNIS Greece EU contribution € 220 720,00 Address Megalou konstantinou 15 141 22 Irakleio See on map Region Αττική Aττική Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Dimitris Diagourtas (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data KENTRO MELETON ASFALEIAS Greece EU contribution € 157 200,00 Address P kanellopoulou 4 st 10177 Athina See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Georgios Leventakis (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG France EU contribution € 206 200,00 Address Rue blaise pascal 4 67081 Strasbourg See on map Region Grand Est Alsace Bas-Rhin Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sandrine Schott-Carriere (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA Portugal EU contribution € 160 489,00 Address Paco das escolas 3004-531 Coimbra See on map Region Continente Centro (PT) Região de Coimbra Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Luciano Lourenço (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
