Mission

Critech performs research in information technology, geospatial information science, physical and numerical modelling to create novel methods for crisis monitoring and more effective response.

Application areas

• Early warning and impact analysis of natural disasters
  
  • Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System: a multi-hazard alert system providing automated impact analysis (collaboration with the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs).
  • Tsunami alert system: global tsunami detection and wave-propagation system
  • Global Flood Detection System: a satellite-based global near-real time flood detection system (collaboration with the Dartmouth Flood Observatory)
• Monitoring of infectious diseases
  • Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases
• Information technology for international crisis response
  • Web-based systems for crisis response and management communities
  • Integration of scientific data, traditional media and social media
• International situation rooms
  • Information management
  • Crisis Room Model: testbed for information technology

Research areas

• Geospatial technology
  • Spatial data infrastructure for crisis management: web processing services
  • JRC Streetmap: a global map
  • Viewers for crisis management: integration of real-time open-source information with base maps
• Hydrodynamic modelling
  • Tsunami modelling
• Information systems for crisis response
• Epidemiological modelling