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Forest Roads for Civil Protection Working together to achieve common methodologies for emergencies in European forest roads www.forcip.eu January 2016 - June 2017 Forest Roads for Civil Protection, GA No. ECHO/SUB/2015/718661/PREP20 is a cooperation european project co-funded by the ECHO European Comission Unit Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations www.forcip.eu The Aristotle University (AUTH) Fundación Cesefor (CESEFOR) Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) Office National des Forêts (ONF) Contact: Prof. Petros Patias, FORCIP+ Project Coordinator. School of Rural & Surveying Engineering. The Aristotle University, Univ. Box 439, GR-541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece Phone: +30 2310 99 6116 | Fax: +30 2310 99 6128 | [email protected], [email protected] | perslab.topo.auth.gr Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) FORCIP+ FORCIP+
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Forest Roads for Civil ProtectionWorking together to achieve common
methodologies for emergencies in European forest roads
www.forcip.eu
January 2016 - June 2017
Forest Roads for Civil Protection, GA No. ECHO/SUB/2015/718661/PREP20 is a cooperation european project co-funded by the ECHO European Comission Unit
Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
www.forcip.eu
The Aristotle University (AUTH)
Fundación Cesefor(CESEFOR)
Slovenian Forestry Institute(SFI)
Office National des Forêts (ONF)
Contact: Prof. Petros Patias, FORCIP+ Project Coordinator.School of Rural & Surveying Engineering. The Aristotle University, Univ. Box 439, GR-541 24 Thessaloniki, GreecePhone: +30 2310 99 6116 | Fax: +30 2310 99 6128 | [email protected], [email protected] | perslab.topo.auth.gr
Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI)
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The project aims to improve the knowledge of rural network through its digital mapping. Through transnational cooperation and a wide range of initiatives different demands related with firefighting emergencies will be meet. From this mapping Information and Communication Technology (ICT) applications will be developed to improve the efficiency in case of emergency and establish classifications to ensure a common understanding of road and vehicles characteristics in different areas.
Forest fire fighting vehicles will be equipped with GNSS receivers in order to improve time response and increase fuel savings. Fire specialists will be able to use network analysis for resources planning, locating most suitable places for ground means waiting areas or identifying forest surfaces where it takes longer to access.
Model characterization data of the rural road network that meets the requirements for use by public emergencies, especially those related to firefighting.
Actual field inventory of a pilot area in the regions involved and its inclusion in a GIS.
GIS analysis of the obtained data and examples of improving the efficiency of emergency responses through network analyst tools.
Guide of good practices on construction and maintenance of rural road infrastructure.
Guide of project implementation in order to make it transferable to different areas.
ICT applications: GNSS/GPS system, ground means management app, data update system.
Project website including a cartographic viewer with
OGC services for data interoperability: public use information dissemination and road alerts system.
THE PROJECTTHE PROJECTTHE PROJECTTHE PROJECTTHE PROJECTTHE PROJECTThe Forest Roads for Civil Protection (FORCIP+) project -with EU’s financial support through the Directorate-General Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection- aims at improving the use of the rural road network in case of emergency, especially forest fires. FORCIP+ is an initiative developed in the field of Prevention and Preparedness in Civil Protection.
Ground roads are the main way of access to the forest, but the gradual loss of activity in rural environment has led to a decrease of knowledge of this network. The construction of forest roads lacks of common guidelines. Furthermore forest road are not subject of any classification considering firefighting aspects.
Their design and construction features are therefore highly variable. In many cases they are only accessible with specific vehicles like SUVs. This makes it an intricate network with wide areas unreachable by emergency means. The lack of this knowledge makes it difficult to implement technological advances to improve the effectiveness of the means in case of emergencies. Consequently the main objective of the project is to improve the use of the rural road network in case of emergency, especially forest fires.
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