Calamities information system

Objective

The objective of CALIS (CALamity lnformation Siystem) is to integrate the tecnnology into the process of monitoring and assessing the damages caused by climatic disasters to agriculture (drought, flood, windstorm, frost, etc ...) in view of indemnifying the farmers who have suffered a prejudice. Besides the farmers, the two main actors of the play are the insurance companies and the public authorities.
CALIS is for all these reasons an user driven project. The basic innovation does not lie in the EO technology, but in the set-up of an end-to-end preoperational service, in the integration of a dedicated information system and the automation of a Process.
CALIS is clearly an EO dissemination and operationalisation project; some insurers (like GROUPAMA) already used some EO but never implemented an end-to-end information system capable of making best use of the experience accumulated; the insurers appear indeed as new users, widening the EO market. What are the expected project achievements? Following items have to be considered as the project endproducts:
- the methodology for using EO in the damage assessment life cycle, - the expertise data base accumulated during the project durations offeringthe absolutely necessary comparison with the incoming natural events, - the integrated CALIS information system implemented on 4 sites (France,Greece, Spain, Canada) with a central data server implemented in Spain. Which are the objectives in terms of system functionality?
CALIS implements an end-to-end system interfacing with existing data providers with two main functionalities:
- a continuously activable and or activated alert system which detects theanomalous trends,
- a damage assessment system taking profit of the expertise databaseaccumulated all along the system exploitation.
The project prerequisite technology is available at the consortium members. There is no risky development precedent. Moreover, the project is taklng full profit of too other ongoing projects:
- ISIS (ESPRIT 20255)
- GEO2DIS (ESPRIT 8017)

Fields of science

• social sciences › sociology › industrial relations › automation
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture

Programme(s)

• FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0303 - Centre for earth observation

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Matra Systèmes & Information

Address

31,avenue Des Comonautes
31402 Toulouse
France

Participants (6)

Auxiliar de Recursos y Energia SA

Spain

Address

38/1,san Fancisco De Soles
28003 Madrid

Direction des Exploitations de la Politique Sociale et de l'Emploi - Ministère de l'Agriculture, Pêche et Emploi

France

Address

78,rue De Varenne
75349 Paris

Geoapikonisis Ltd.

Greece

Address

90,themistokleous Street
106 81 Athens

Geosys SA

France

Address

3,rue Hermes
31526 Ramonville

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Greece

Address

1,theophrastou Street 1
413 35 Larisa

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

United Kingdom

Address

Darwin Building, King's Building, Mayfield Road
EH9 3JG Edinburgh