1. KICK OFF MEETING Projects selected under 2012 Call for Proposals Prevention & Preparedness under the Civil Protection Financial Instrument Brussels, 17 January 2013 - 10.00 - 17.00 hrs PREPAREDNESS proiects: Observation and Detection Systems for Forest Fire Management (ODS3F) Giovanni Laneve DIAEE - Sapienza Università di Roma, ITALY Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels

2. INTRODUCTION Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels ODS3F - Observation and Detection Systems For Forest Fire management Project Duration: 2 years Consortium: 5 partners Total Cost: 634 KEuro ECHO Contribution: 476 KEuro Starting date: 1st January 2013.

3. COORDINATING BENEFICIARY AND ASSOCIATED BENEFICIARIES (1) Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels

4. COORDINATING BENEFICIARY AND ASSOCIATED BENEFICIARIES (2) ASSOCIATED BENEFICIARIES COORDINATING BENEFICIARY Uniroma1 (“La Sapienza”, Roma) is the biggest University in Europe with 145,000 students and 5,000 academic staff members. In 2010, the University has completed a program of reorganization of departments, bringing together professors from different departments and on this line the Department of Astronautics, Electrics and Energetic Engineering (DIAEE) has been established. Province of Rome, with the Civil Protection service, safeguards the physical integrity of people, protects their goods and the environment from risks, through the scheduling and planning instruments. Province of Rome recurs, thanks to specific agreements, to collaborations with all the institutional actors operating in the Civil Protection framework. Cesefor is a non-profit private foundation established since 2003. Its administrative body includes the Diputación Provincial de Soria, the University of Valladolid, and two private companies (Tableros Losán and 56 Puertas Norma). Its mission is to develop the forestry sector and the industry built upon the exploitation of forestry resources so they make a greater contribution to the sustainable development of their environment. The MATER Lab, UoWM constitutes the University’s platform that promotes ideas on innovation management and entrepreneurship within a regional and international environment and focuses its research and services. MATER Lab, UoWM works towards creating a technologically strong market place and developing economic development within the region of Western Macedonia and widely within Europe with emphasis to the South East part of the Continent. The French National Forestry Office (ONF) manages nearly 5 million hectares of public forests belonging to the French State or to local authorities and plays a major role in regional sustainable development. The ONF works for the protection of many different environments, from coastlines, dunes and marshes, to peat bogs, mountains, glaciers and grasslands. Fire is also an ever-present danger to forest. Therefore, the ONF designs and implements protection systems: risk prevention plans, trails, firebreaks, clearing of undergrowth, water supply points, etc... Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels

5. Spanish monitoring system Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels Background The whole system consists of 19 detection cameras and 15 communications towers. Thermal imageConventional image The Region of Castilla y Leon (Spain) has a total area of 9,422,543 hectares of which 51% is forest area. Currently 31% of the surface of the region is wooded and accounts for 15% of the national forest area. The province of Soria, has about 1,028,700 ha, of which 58% of its territory is forest and 42% is wooded. The traditional way of visual forest fire detection uses 33 towers. A new early detection System has been implemented since 2006: In remote areas, far from populated areas, where it´s difficult to detect small fires visually and rapidly.

6. Spanish monitoring system Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels This system consists of the following components: Infrared thermal camera. CCTV high-performance camera Georeferencing system. Weather station. Communication system. Hardware / software development The camera works on the top of 30 m. metal towers 24 hours a day. The images captured by cameras (2 and 4) are sent to Provincial Command Center by radio links (3 ) The system can be self-sufficient with solar panels, small wind turbine and gel batteries, or even methanol batteries. It is always better to have the energy supply of a general network to avoid interruptions. CESEFOR will install a multi-scale net of sensors for remotely monitoring the forest, developing an early-detection system based on the sensorization. These towers are located in the field, in upland areas of good visual coverage, working 24 hours a day, detecting any hot spot in a 8-10 km radius around their 360º rotational oscillation. Covering about 20.000 hectares each. Time detection limit is about 8 minutes.

7. French monitoring system Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels ONF has bought a remote visual system, already used in France in the dept. of Landes with 19 cameras) that will be installed next month in the dept. of Alpes de haute Provence This system will cover the Manosque basin, where are also towers with human detection Contribute to develop a common methodology for testing detection system: – creation/simulation of a calibrate source of ignition in terms of heat and smoke – choice of a range of different situations for the ignition point - topography, vegetation – choice of meteorological conditions (air humidity, with cloud or without, wind velocity...) – of the test distances between the ignition source and the detection system (5, 10 or 15 kms). – This protocol can be used to compare the efficiency of the different systems, and also the human detection one. Study a fire behaviour simulation model – ONF still use FARSITE model Adaptation of the usual behave models to the Mediterranean vegetation Integration of local wind effects

8. Greek monitoring system Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels … integrates various communications systems (PBXs, TETRA, VHF, Satcom) and mobile data terminals for call handling, notifications and resource alarming; …provides a GIS based Collaboration platform; …integrates efficiently various natural hazards simulation algorithms for mission planning and decision support. S.A.F.E.R. (Messenia) …a modular software system for Collaborative Natural Hazards Crisis Management, Decision Support and Mission Planning; …provides all the tools for Multi-agency incident and resource management by mapping the operations and hierarchical structure of each involved organization into the business workflow;

9. Italian monitoring system Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels Fig. 1 – Extraction of the areas of major interest at high risk, the background shows the fire risk map where the green color represents low risk and the red color delineates the high risk areas. The red polygons represent the ROI selected for carrying out the optimal positioning of the Ciclope cameras. Fig. 3 – Visibility analysis with a range of 25 km assuming the availability of 6 cameras. Violet areas = 1 camera, yellow = 2 cameras, green = 3 cameras, blue = 4 cameras. Fig, 3 - Comparison between the fire events given from Forest Corps and those detected by the Ciclope system within a range of 20 km. The area accessible from the cameras is given is in violet. In red are shown the fires not detected by Ciclope and in green the detected ones.

10. Italian monitoring system Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels Operating Modes Manual mode: control of the camera is taken by the operator. Cyclic mode: the acquisition devices operate independently in a cyclic manner along a given path. Automatic mode: the system operates by activating the automatic detection of fires. Presently the system comprises 2 points of observation but it is capable of supporting a theoretically infinite number of cameras. An analysis for the expansion of the CICLOPE system has been carried out by the DIAEE. The choice of the area for the installation of the new cameras is based on the data about the parameters of vulnerability, risk and difficulty in the wildfire and the viewshield analysis. High Resolution Camera The camera operates in the visible spectrum. It is mounted in containers motorized for the outdoor use. The algorithm is based on the change detection and it identifies the smoke during the day and the flames in the night.

11. Objective and expected results This project is devoted to the development of a common understanding of the capabilities of vision (optical or thermal) and detection systems on which a fire remote detection network can be based. The main objective of the project is the technical assessment and operational comparison among remote visual systems and detectors network devoted to monitor wooded areas or areas of particular environmental, touristic and/or cultural interest. In particular, this project aims at: - evaluating, through an agreed evaluation scheme, the performances of the monitoring systems based on visible or thermal camera already available in the countries of the project partners; - evaluating the performances of the sensor network based on wireless sensors capable to collect meteorological as well as fire related parameters (CO2, temperature, etc.); - comparing the results taking into account the different characteristics of the monitored area and the observation system; - assessing the possibility of complementing the monitoring network with a system capable to simulate the fire behaviour providing the most probable, time dependent, propagation conditions by taking into account the meteorological conditions, the orography and fuel (vegetation) type and status; - defining agreed criteria to guide the decision about the adoption of the situation reports based upon remote observation system, in terms of convenience and/or basic characteristics (visible or thermal camera). Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels

12. Objective and expected results As result of the technical and operational analysis that will be carried out on the information provided by the investigated technological systems, as well as the comparison of the performances and the final utilization of the available information will contribute in: the adoption of these technologies as common and shared good practices at EU level. The comparison of the systems can bring to:  define an optimized system,  a standardized set of information,  a common method of using the situational reports for enhancing the correct, effective and efficient utilization of the available data in facing emergencies (as wildfires are) and in reducing their consequences. A deliverable consisting in a guideline describing the elements to be taken into account for selecting the most suitable surveillance system for monitoring, protecting a given area of interest and for optimizing the exploitation of the produced information. Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels

13. Task TitleActions Scientific and technical Coordination & Project Management (M0 – M24) 1. Coordination and effective management of the project and consortium 2. Ensure the administrative and financial implementation of the Contract 3. Ensure the overall scientific and technical coordination of project activities 4. Ensure the achievement of overall technical and scientific objectives of the project Analysis and technical assessment of the observation/detection systems (M0 – M15) 1. Analysis of the automatic surveillance and monitoring system of forest fire using thermal cameras in the Region Castile and León (Spain); Evaluation of the performances 2. Analysis of the monitoring system in France, evaluation of the performances 3. Analysis of the monitoring system in Greece, evaluation of the performances 4. Analysis of the monitoring system in Italy, evaluation of the performances 5. Comparison of the monitoring/detection systems available within the consortium Definition of situational data set, utilization strategy & simulation of fire behaviour (M12 – M24) 1. Evaluation of the situational data set and assessment of a common data utilization strategy 2. Study of a fire behaviour simulation module 3. Assessment of the possible improvement of the system Good practices and experiences exchange (M12– M24) 1. Comparison of systems and good practices and experiences exchange; 2. Development of guide lines for the optimized utilization of the situational reports. Communication & Dissemination (M2– M24) 1. Design and creation of a website; 2. Dissemination plan and elaboration of brochures and presentations 3. Construction of a database and mailing list for the dissemination of information and events & establishment of a communication tool for the consortium Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels Project planning and structure

14. Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels Date and places of major events EventsWhere & whenReasons for travel Kick-off Bruxelles, 17th January 2013 Kick off meeting with the EC I Meeting with partners Rome – 2° week February 2013 Kick-off meeting among partners Progress Meeting Soria November 2013Progress meeting II EC Meeting Bruxelles Progress meeting Workshop Aix en ProvenceExperiences comparison,common data utilization strategy definition, best practices identification Final Event RomeFinal meeting

15. Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels Deliverables DeliverableDeadlineContent 1st version of Website on lineMarch 2013 (M0+3)Project description Progress report July 2013 (M0+6)Progress report on the results of the systems analysis and the performances evaluation 1st yearly Progress Report January 2014 (M0+12)Yearly progress report for the Commission Progress report July 2014 (M0+18)Progress report on the optimized set of situational data + good practices and experiences exchange Final report January 2015 (M0+24)Final Technical/Financial project report Final document January 2015 (M0+24)Guidelines for the implementation and optimized exploitation of monitoring systems

16. Thank you Kick Off Meeting, 17 January 2013, Brussels