Multi-Hazard Cooperative Management Tool for Data Exchange, Response Planning and Scenario Building
HEIMDALL Overview
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Dear all,
We are giving you all a warm welcome to HEIMDALL! This current project will be ongoing for three years and with this first newsletter we would like to give you a briefing about what it is and what the project consists of. The project will last until October 2020 and in between we will keep you updated about the partner meetings, the new incomes, and in general, about the steps that we are taking towards HEIMDALL, an ambicious project that was tailored to the needs of practitioners and which we hope will respond to your needs. Here we go!
What is HEIMDALL?
It is a cooperative multi-hazard management tool which provides data exchange, scenario building and situation assessment functionalities for preparedness and response planning in relation to wildfires, floods and landslides.
What makes HEIMDALL so special?
Bearing in mind that climate change is amplifying natural disasters impacts, intensity and duration of extreme weather events in Europe and worldwide, we consider a need to build up a tool in order to foster knowledge and data exchange to cope with complex crisis situations which require participation, coordination and cooperation of multiple first-responder organizations and international aid.
What are HEIMDALL objectives?
Overall, Heimdall is focused on two main objectives:
Improving immediate cooperative situation assessment and strategic response planning activities
Improving long-term preparedness activities (e.g. strategies for DDR)
How does HEIMDALL work?
Knowing already the gaps and the objectives that we have previously outlined, we are able to solve the next points with the user´s interaction:
With a view to understand Heimdall´s functionality we must be aware about the current gaps and how solutions are being made to respond to the needs of people who are involved in the wildfire community:
In this case, we indentify the following as the most remarkable gaps:
High demand of cross-organizational communication and cooperation in response and preparedness phase
Reduced situation awareness and decision making capabilities through information overload and uncertainty in a crisis situation
Interoperability and semantic heterogeneity problems
Designing and implementing a multi-hazard integrated system to be used pre-operationally by emergency services
Creating, analysing and exchanging realistic multi-disciplinary disaster scenarios
Providing more, better, clear and validated data
Recording conditions, actual events and actions as the situation evolves
Analysing possible futures of a situation and potential consequences to assess the effectiveness of potential working strategies and identify options and contingencies
Evaluating and revising response plans based on lessons learnt from previous disasters
Cross-organizational communication and sharing of existing knowledge, situational information, disaster scenarios, strategies and response plans
Consistent usage of internationally recognized standards of data management, DDR, disaster management protocols and procedures and emergency message formats
Who are involved in this project?
Which is our Agenda?
This is all for now. Really soon we will provide you with more information about HEIMDALL. Hopefully, you have so far liked what you have seen. Until our next newsletter and wishing you all the best for 2019
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under the gran agreement No. 740689
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