Objective The MEDIGRID proposal aims to create a distributed framework of multi-risk assessment for post-fire natural disasters. In order to achieve the above strategic objective several parallel tasks must be accomplished and a number of particular objectives to be addressed. The proposal will integrate in the above framework models of forest fire behaviour, soil erosion, vegetation regeneration, flash floods and landslides, developed or elaborated in frame of previous EC projects. These models will be upgraded to web applications in order to run remotely as web services over the internet. A distributed data warehouse with EO and other digital spatial data, combined with field measurements will be created by the project partners. Data sets will refer to countries that have suffered important forest fires during the last summer and where post fire disaster occurence is considered high for the next years. The data will be defined according to the requirements of the models that will be integrated and tested within MEDIGRID. The data structure and organization will be designed in order to comply with the concept of respective EC initiatives (INSPIRE, EU-MEDIN, ESPON) for data standardisation. These data will be also used by the individual models in the context of a models validation framework. The entire system of models and data will be shaped further as a multi-risk assessment and decision support information platform. A portal will be used as the access point to the risk assesment web services as well as to the data sets of the data warehouse. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographynatural disasters Keywords Natural disasters data warehouse debris flow distributed data flood forest fire multi-risk soil erosion validation web services Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-2004-3.IV.2.c - Natural disasters Call for proposal FP6-2003-GLOBAL-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator ALGOSYSTEMS Address 206, sygrou avenue Kalithea Greece See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ASSOCIACAO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA AERODINAMICA INDUSTRIAL Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rua pedro hispano, 12 Coimbra See on map Links Website Opens in new window ENTENTE INTERDEPARTEMENTALE EN VUE DE LA PROTECTION DE LA FORET ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT CONTRE L'INCENDIE' France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Domaine de valabre Gardanne See on map Links Website Opens in new window TECNOMA SA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Plaza del liceo, 3 Madrid See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 6 kensington terrace Newcastle upon tyne See on map Links Website Opens in new window USTAV INFORMATIKY, SLOVENSKA AKADEMIA VIED Slovakia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Dubravska cesta 9 84507 Bratislava See on map
