Scenarios for Hazard-induced Emergencies Management, Progetto SCHEMA n. 030963

Progetto con 9 partners (durata 36 mesi a partire dall’1/08/2007). Il Prof.S.Tinti è responsabile dell'Unità di Ricerca dell'Università di Bologna. Project Summary A consortium of 9 organisations proposes a research project involving international cooperation around the Mediterranean basin: they aim at using earth observation data to develop a generic methodology able to help experts build vulnerability and hazard impact maps associated with earthquakes, tsunamis and floods. Involving Morocco and Bulgaria, GEOSCIENCES will coordinate the design and development of this vulnerability map creation technique which involves intrinsic vulnerability variables of systems facing a hazard (types of building, categories of inhabitants, …), secondary environment vulnerability variables (location of buildings in old areas, access conditions, …) and crisis organisations vulnerability variables which shape efficient rescue operations (enhance or inhibit actions near the impacted regions). The notion of hazard scenario will be revisited with end-users (including Turkey) and players in countries recently impacted by coupled earthquakes/tsunamis events. The Asian tsunami will be used for the extraction of relevant vulnerability, hazard and crisis management factors, including indicators from earth observation data. After a first tuning against data from Asia, the methodology will be deployed for 5 Euro-Mediterranean tests sites in Portugal, Morocco, France, Italy and Bulgaria. The results of the methodology will be presented within a Geographic Information System, to allow interrogation of a primary data base by different end users. Hence more realistic pictures of the spatial and temporal patterns of vulnerability can be obtained whatever the coastal area. The resulting work flow will be imbedded within existing hazard/ exposure analysis techniques to provide multi hazard risk evaluation. Results of the prototype processing will be put on line for 6 months, using the ORCHESTRA platform. Exploitation plans will be provided by the consortium in conjunction with the recommendations from EU and international civil security experts.