Mission

The Crisis Monitoring and Response Technologies (CRITECH) action 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).
- Collaborative Risk Analysis for Early Action: a platform for collaboration on risk analysis and early warning, focused on socio-political and health threats.
- 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
- European Crisis Management Laboratory (ECML)

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

Mission

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).
- Collaborative Risk Analysis for Early Action: a platform for collaboration on risk analysis and early warning, focused on socio-political and health threats.
- 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
- European Crisis Management Laboratory (ECML)

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