1. EU-Project „IDIRA“ and CAP Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop 2012 1 st – 3 rd May 2012, Montréal, Canada Marcel Heckel Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (IVI) Germany

2. Project Overview Project full title: Interoperability of data and procedures in large-scale multinational disaster response actions Project start date: May 1st, 2011 Project duration: 48 months Project budget: EUR 10.925.164,35 Consortium: 18 organization from 7 countries

3. European situation Large scale disaster happened repeatedly Floods Large fires Earth quakes Multinational help was needed How to manage of efforts from different countries effectively!? © Ralf Roletschek © enpasedecentrale

4. Administrative level Structures Legal background/mandates Resource management Command and control level Procedures Information handling Field operations level Language Communication systems Equipment Existing barriers

5. RSS/ATOM TSO Overcome barriers Usage of official standards for information exchange Definition of standards → long process Usage of excising standards! CAP, EDXL-SitRep, RSS/ATOM, EDXL-RM, TSO, … Combine data of different standards EDXL-SitRep CAP EDXL-RM Combined information

6. CAP? Support for user defined codes E.g. Canadian Profile No profile for any European country TSO (Tactical Situation Object) Contains a catalog of term for events and resources /GND/EQK – Earth quake /FLD/FLS – Flash flood

7. Overcome barriers 23 official languages inside the EU Machine translation is unreliable Structured Communication for text messages Semantic text block Translated in advance Parameters

8. CAP? Create messages in different languages standardized catalogue of event code doesn’t have to be big Event described as text! No standardization of semantic text blocks needed Easy extendable Recipients need not to know about any codes

9. Questions? Contact: marcel.heckel@ivi.fraunhofer.demarcel.heckel@ivi.fraunhofer.de Fraunhofer IVI Zeunerstraße 38 01069 Dresden Germany

11. MobiKAT Lightweight (mobile) geographic information system for emergency organizations Tactical planning Decision support Operational picture/map www.mobikat.net