Name:CROSS-Fire (GISELA)
Description:Collaborative Resources Online to Support Simulations on Forest Fires
Abstract:Civil Protection (CP) activities involve different and autonomous actors, from public bodies to research centres. CP applications require a strict integration of human and physical resources that must be shared in a coordinated and effective way, and available for the whole emergency procedure. Developments in information and communication science and technology enabled such integration, namely through Virtual Organizations (VO) in the emerging grid technologies: a VO should efficiently coordinate the sharing of these interconnected resources (computing, storage, communication, sensors and actuators) geographically scattered across national borders. Forest fires represent a typical CP emergency case that requires a fast and reliable risk management support system, with real-time or near real-time availability of critical geo-referenced data and settings-based forecasts for fire spreading. Control of forest fires is a relevant CP candidate to take advantage of grid services in Portugal, under EGEE platform and through an improved version of the FireStation desktop simulation tool, developed by proposal´s team members in the 90´s with severe computing limitations. The Collaborative Resources Online to Support Simulations on Forest FIREs: a Grid Platform to Integrate (CROSS-FIRE) proposal aims to complement national and EU projects, pursuing R&D in computer and computational sciences in the context of EU grid initiatives, demonstrating its potential through a CP activity application - decision support to control forest fires - and deploying interoperable grid applications and services among several independent organizations. To illustrate the effectiveness of the approach, FireStation will be ported and improved using grid technologies, together with data gathered remote sources, and with distributed visualization. The implementation will also address high computing and grid storage, interoperability problems, spatial data management, near-real-time requirements, QoS data policy and security (resource prioritizati

Created:2011-05-06
Last updated:2011-05-06