International Conference on Forest Fire & WUI Fires

Forestfire2016-May 25-27th – Christophe Frerson

Improving situation awareness

with social media & aerial monitoring system

in WUI Fires

Ministry of the Interior

Homeland security

Defense and Civil

Security Department

& crisis management

Interministry

coordination center

COGIC

Zone Prefect

Zone headquarter

Zonal interagency

coordination center

Prefect

Fire Department

Department

coordination center

Mayor

Firestation

Local dispatcher

Emergency Operation Centers

Like operational data lift

50% of French crises occur in southern France.

We manage all kind of hazards except volcanoes.

3 regions, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (French Riviera)

Languedoc-Roussillon and Corsica,

21 departments (+2 during fire season).

We serve 10 Million inhabitants and several million of tourists

over a territory of 113,000 km². 900kms wide -15 staff 24/7

during fire season

Southern regional interagency

coordinator center named “COZ Sud”

Mission:

• Anticipation

• Coordination of national fleet of firefighter aircrafts

• Manage all search and rescue helicopters.

• Could dispatch resources with 35,000 firefighters,

professionals, volunteers, soldiers and civil protection military

force of 1,000 staff to reinforce fire departments.

• 24,000 policemen – 16,000 gendarmes (military policemen)

High urbanization and density of population

Large areas of wildland urban interface « WUI »

Extreme fires that require deployment of many resources,Flash floods & heavy rains

COZ

Southern regional interagency

coordinator center named “COZ Sud”

CORSICA

Southern France

Forest fire location in France

Extreme fires that require many resources:

Thousands of men on the field, hundreds of

vehicles

More than a dozen aircraft of different types

simultaneously (helicopters, scoopers, tankers)

Context

Improving situation awareness in WUI Fires

1 - Aerial – Monitoring System

2 - Social Media

AERIAL MONITORING SYSTEM

improving situational awareness

Features

Aerial monitoring Introduction

• Since 2006, 3 fire & rescue services have decided to

use aerial surveillance solution with live video for forest

fires in order to help manage these major incidents and

improve situation awareness.

• = reduce uncertainty – improve safety

• 180,000€ during 3 months and 60 flight hours,

subcontracting with CAE aviation company.

http://www.cae-aviation.com/

Aerial monitoring system features

Aerial monitoring system in Corsica

Wildfires

Implementation

Improve situation awareness :

– Real time video

– High quality pictures, movie and zoom

– Infrared sensors

– Tracking

– Measurement of distances and perimeters

Aerial monitoring system features

PLANE AND OPTRONICS SYSTEMS

Cessna C208 Caravan

• Flight range of over 7

hours

• Pilot, operator, and 1 or 2

firefighters on board

Optronics System

• Gyro-stabilized camera

• Color sensor

• Infrared sensor

• Video recorder

Aerial monitoring system features

Fire dept coordination center

Command car

Radio relay

120 kmsTactical mode

30 kms

Smartphone

Satellite data broadcasting

Regional interagency

coordination center

National coordination

center

Aerial monitoring system features

VIDEO AND DATA TRANSMISSION

Aerial monitoring system features

AIRCRAFT

ALTITUDE &

cap

NORTH

TIME – DATE

UTC 12h45

Fr = 14h45

AIRCRAFT

POSITION

TARGET

POSITION

DIGITAL INFORMATION

TARGET

ALTITUDE

AIRCRAFT –

TARGET

DISTANCE

Zoom X 1000 possibleVisible or IR

Aerial monitoring system features

Forest surveillance and fire detection

Forest surveillance and fire detection

Fire line

Fire propagation and rate of spread

Distance between the fire

and railroad threatened

Forest fire evaluation and monitoring

Forest surveillance and fire detection

Field action evaluation

AERIAL EVALUATION

AERIAL EVALUATION

Feu Solaro-Solenzara 15 août 2014

Picture or movie

From picture toward intelligence

Common operating picture - Solaro-Solenzara 2014 August 15th

Aerial monitoring System mapping

Wildfires

NTO

Sensitivity to operation

Situation awerness

Bubble – improve your picture

Decision making

Case study

Case study

Sari-Ghiso

Camping 600 peoples

Tree climbing game site

Houses & structures

Village

T + 22 minutes

T + 45 minutes

Evacuation by beach

Evacuation toward sea

bridge

Defend houses – strike team

Retardant drops

With Aircraft

Our command

Follow our decisions

Dash drop feu en ville

Tree climbing game site

Campingvillage

Retardant drops

Outcomes

No dead or injured, camping burned with 50 mobile homes, caravans & restaurant burned.

Tree Climbing Game Site burned. No house burned, 600 homeless

We think:

aerial monitoring system is added value for

decision maker in WUI Fires

#SMEM

Do social media can help crisis manager

and People on WUI Fires?

People = new behavior

People = new behavior

Lot of informations on web & social medias

• People get information before rescue services, real time, movies, pictures, text, comments,

maps

Transforming information into inteligence

Informing people

Asking people

FB – Feux de forêt – more than 17,000 followers

Tweet deck

monitoring

#

Menton

Fire 2015

Tag board – tweet deck

Call a @VOST

VOST are volunteer operation support teams, activated to perform specific digital

functions in support of participating organizations or agencies

through open-source data collection, aggregation, verification, and dissemination

What is a VOST?

» many agencies do not have the manpower to effectively leverage the social media spaceduring and after a disaster

» Each VOST has a Team Leader that reports directly to the affected organization

» Organization signed agreement with @VISOV which is a French VOST

@VOST

VOST - VISOV

Partnership with VOST

• Association of volunteers

• Gathering information

• Analysis & filter

• Assessment

• Validation

• Abstract

• Spacialisation

• Communication

• Providing collaborative

sheet

• Semantic research

tool

• Tag board / google alert

• Geolocated

informations research

tools

• Easy geo tweet

• Collaborative mapping

• Ushaïdi

• sharing tools

• Google drive sheet

Providing collaborative sheet

Added value of #SMEM in Operations

• Anticipation

• Monitoring weak signal (watcher)

• Improving situational awareness

• Real time interaction with people

• Beat of people

• Crowd mapping

• Crowd sourcing

• Geolocated information

• Communication with people

• People become actor of his own safety

• Early warning system with people

How to implement #SMEM ?

How to implement #SMEM ?

• Agreement – free contract with VOST

• Training our staff on #SMEM tools

• Guidelines

• Good link between authorities, Fire & Rescue service and other crisis cells and give same message = operational bubble

• Strategic position in crisis cell between ops & com

• Employ young people in #SMEM team

• Integrate communities on social medias

• Maintain energy & telecommunication providers

How to implement #SMEM in Crisis room ?

Position in crisis cell

Map & inteligence

location in crisis cellsdis83 exemple

Location in crisis cell

Exemple of

Southern

Regional

Interagency

Coordination

Center

In the future…Apps?

Apps - Example of project : CORSEinfo112

• Using social media to inform & alert people like an early warning system

• Receiving automatic short text when you go in dangerous area

• Getting on apps informations about natural and man made risks where you live

Prefect Laurent Prevost

Head of French general directorate of civil protection and crises management

Conclusion

“Fire suppression in the next decade will begin a

transformation process driven by technology,

requirements for greater mobility and agility, and

suppression strategies that will demand new levels of

flexibility and precision”

Source: Quadriennal Fire Review, 2009

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ForestFire2016 - May 25-27th –

christophe.frerson@gmail.com christophe.frerson@interieur.gouv.fr

Sources:

EMIZDS Sud, sdis2bG Martin Atrisc, A. Demontis Entente de Valabre, @visov1, sdis13, sdis30, sdis83,