The Helmholtz Association’s Integrated Observation System (EOS) - A German Contribution to Disaster Management -

H. Mehl, S. Voigt, S. Plattner (DLR) B. Merz, D. Dransch, H. Kreibich, S. Haubrock (GFZ) The Helmholtz Association: Facts

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Helgoland SCHLESWIG- HOLSTEIN Greifswald HAMBURG MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN Geesthacht Bremerhaven 15 Centers

NIEDERSACHSEN Potsdam Braunschweig 2 4 Magdeburg Zeuthen 250 Institutes Wolfenbüttel- Niemegk Teltow Remlingen BRANDENBURG Sachsen-Anhalt NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN Göttingen Halle

Jülich 24.000 Employees Köln Bad Lauchstädt SACHSEN HESSEN Bonn THÜ RINGEN

RHEINLAND-PFALZ Annual Budget: Headquarters of Darmstadt a Helmholtz ~ 2 billion € SAARLAND Center Heidelberg Lampoldshausen Branches Karlsruhe BAYERN Stuttgart Helmholtz Association‘s http://www.helmholtz.de BADEN-W Ü RTTEMBERG Neuherberg Garching Head Office München Oberpfaffenhofen The Helmholtz Association: Research Fields

Earth and Environment Energy Health

Key Technologies Structure of Matter Transport and Space The Helmholtz Association: Research Fields

Geosystem: The Changing Earth

Atmosphere and

Marine, Coastal and Polar Earth and Environment Research Biogeosystems: Dynamics, Adaption and Adjustment

Sustainable Use of Landscapes

Sustainable Development and Technology The Helmholtz Association: Research Fields

Transport

Aeronautics

Space Transport and Space The Helmholtz Association: Research Fields

Integrated Earth Observation System Earth and Environment

Transport and Space The Helmholtz EOS Program: Facts

Goals: Monitoring the status and trends of the earth system by Joint work of scientists in different research fields by concentration of expertise Share infrastructure and data

Research Topics: Ice and Processes of the Land Surface Disaster Management upcoming: Atmosphere and Water Cycle The Helmholtz EOS Program: Disaster Management

Activities: Information management, simulation and early warning of disastrous floods Analysis and early warning of storm tides and ship accidents in coastal areas Disaster mitigation for megacities Monitoring fires and volcanoes Development of crisis information systems

EOS efforts in disaster management:

NaDiNe: networking and communication platform Joint research projects (e.g. DISFLOOD) EOS PhD program: megacities and natural disasters

More information: http://helmholtz-eos.dlr.de EOS PhD Program „Disaster Management“

Facts: Covers all Helmholtz EOS research fields 12 international PhD students Participants: AWI, DLR, GFZ, GKSS

PhD program focusses on „Megacities and Natural Disasters“ including the following subjects:

Analysis of flood risks due to "Alibeykoy" dam failure Vulnerability estimation for the Megacity of Istanbul (by means of remote sensing and GIS in case of an earthquake event) The Evaluation of seismic vulnerability of buildings (by means of remote sensing and GIS: e.g. „Development of a methodological framework and application to the Metropolitan Area of Istanbul“) EOS Research Projects: DISFLOOD

Disaster Information System for Large-scale Flood Events using Earth Observation (DISFLOOD) Participants: (DLR) GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) United Nations University (UNU)

Research subjects (PhD theses): Design and implementation of a flood information system including remote sensing Assessing and integration of social vulnerability indicators Contribution of remote sensing to flood management, rapid damage assessment, vulnerability, and risk analysis Estimation of damage influencing hydrological/hydraulic parameters NaDiNe: Natural Disasters Networking Platform

Objectives: Helmholtz-wide coordination of expertise and activities in the context of disaster management coordinated, effective action during a disaster situation within Helmholtz providing disaster relevant information for users ministries, federal and states administration Relief organisations media/public to assure interface to other existing information networks deNIS etc.

Project management: DLR, GFZ Participants: At first: EOS-Partners AWI, GKSS, DLR, GFZ later: open for all Helmholtz-Centers NaDiNe: Structure

Media Users

PORTAL

Public Research Partners NaDiNe Coordination Group Components: expert groups (earthquake, floods, storms, oil spills, tsunami) web-based information and communication platform users in the field of disaster managment research partners, media, public NaDiNe: Expert Groups

Speaker NaDiNe Coordination Group

NaDiNe Experts… … hold the expertise which is the fundament of the networking platform … are contact persons to users in a disaster event … provide data products, methods and models to users … provide up-to-date, crisis-related information to the media and public … present background information on natural hazards to the public NaDiNe: Web Portal (Features)

Communication for Experts: Forum (asynchronous communication) File-exchange (FTP) Video conference system Chat-area

Information: Documentation of crisis related Helmholtz activities Hazard related background information Expertise database Data products for disaster managment http://nadine.helmholtz-eos.de (available as of April 2006)