"FireHub" - winner of the Best Service Challenge of the
Copernicus Masters 2014
The FireHub Winning Team (Photo: © Jan Kobel)
The National Observatory of Athens participated in the Best Service Challenge of the Copernicus-masters competition with the operational EO based fire management service, which was developed in the framework of the BEYOND project. The submitted service is entitled "FireHub: A Space Based Fire Management Hub", and has been elected as the winner of the Best Service Challenge of the Copernicus Masters 2014 by an experts committee. The Copernicus-masters competition is organised by Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen and aims to support the development of market-oriented applications that use data from the European Union's Copernicus programme (previously known as Global Monitoring of Environment and Security, or GMES).
"FireHub" is a service platform that consolidates a real-time fire detection and monitoring application, a large scale Burnt Scar Mapping during and after wildfires, and a fire smoke dispersion forecasting tool, based on the integration of space technologies with geospatial information and meteorological data. The service has been qualified in the framework of several EC, Copernicus/GMES & ESA projects, relying on fully scalable and transparent automatic processes allowing the transferability of the applications to other climatic and geographic zones in Europe.
The platform addresses real decision-makers' needs and has been deployed on an operational basis to several user stakeholders, including the Greek Forest Fire Management Center of the Fire Brigade, the Ministry of Environment Energy and Climate Change, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization and other local and regional authorities. The User base is rapidly expanding with more than 500 independent connections at a daily basis (institutional users) during the summer.
"FireHub" is integrated into the Global Fire Monitoring Center that belongs to the International Strategy of UN for Disaster Reduction.
For more information please visit the related website: http://ocean.space.noa.gr/FireHub
The BEYOND project aims at conducting cutting edge interdisciplinary research, by Building a Centre of Excellence for Earth Observation based monitoring of Natural Disasters in South-Eastern Europe. BEYOND foresees to increase its access range to the wider Mediterranean region through the integrated cooperation with twining organizations in Europe and USA. BEYOND Center of Excellence is hosted at the National Observatory of Athens. The BEYOND research portfolio covers a broad spectrum of natural disaster phenomena, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, extreme weather events, floods, fires, fire smoke and toxic gasses dispersion, emission concentrations, dust storms, air quality aspects and their impact to human health.
Furthermore the BEYOND activities are also incorporated in the update GEO workplan under the task DI-01 "Informing Risk Management and Disaster Reduction"- Section C1 Disaster Management Systems as a priority «To make information related to environmental risk and vulnerability easily accessible to a wide range of decision-makers through a virtual platform.
Contact Details:
Dr. Charalampos (Haris) Kontoes |
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" This publication was supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1), in the framework of the project BEYOND, under Grant Agreement No. 316210 (BEYOND - Building Capacity for a Centre of Excellence for EO-based monitoring of Natural Disasters) " |
FIREHUB PRESENTATION
FireHub Presentation - Copernicus Masters 2014 (HD)
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Radiocast 'Athens Today' on Athens 984 Radio (11/12/2014)
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Telecast 'Now' on SKAI TV (03/12/2014)
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Telecast 'Live U' on STAR TV with Popi Tsapanidou - (04/11/2014)
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Telecast 'eco News' on SKAI TV (04/11/2014)
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Radiocast 'The News' on Kanali Ena Radio (03/11/2014)
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Telecast 'the Good News of the Day' on SKAI TV (31/10/2014)
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Interview on SBC TV (30/10/2014)
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Telecast 'the Good News of the Day' on SKAI TV (28/10/2014)
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Photos: © Jan Kobel