DISALP Disaster Information System of Alpine Regions

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DIS-ALPDisaster Information System of Alpine
Regions
DIS-ALP powered by Means of the European Regional
Development Fund (ERDF)
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General Information
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
Regions

• Interreg IIIB Project Duration 3 years
  (2003-2006)
• International as well as interdisciplinary
  project partners

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General Information
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
Regions

• Concentration of DIS-ALP is on information gaps
  and communication problems between different
  institutions within the documentation of disaster
  events.
• Emphasis was thus laid on
• Unified methodology
• Providing meta-information for databases
• Considerations about new and existing tools
• Instructions and tutorials
• Implementation

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Objectives
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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• DIS-ALP helps to improve the documentation
  process of natural hazards by sharing bilateral
  knowledge in order to achieve interdisciplinary
  results in following domains
• Near-term An intensive transnational information
  exchange by experts of different working fields
  was set-up (practitioners of spatial planning,
  risk prevention, civil protection, water and
  torrent management, forestry and information
  technology). Results are specifications for
  record documents regarding to natural hazards.
• Middle-term A public information-platform about
  natural hazards has been developed as portal. In
  the future it will bridge information gaps
  between practical users, concerned people and
  official planning institutions.
• Long-term Standardisation and homogenisation of
  natural hazard documentations for the whole
  alpine space will result in better comparable
  information basis and provide means for improved
  disaster management.

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Method of Resolution
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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WP Methodology
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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Concentrated on the methodology of systematic
documentation and storage of data, which is
important to make resulting data comparable and
usable over longer period of time. The
cornerstones of a documentation structure were
before not organised in an uniform way
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WP Methodology
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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The time between event and documentation is a
substantial factor for the quality of the event
data. Therefore the number of possible
documenters has to be increased by the admission
of new work areas, which improves "proximity" to
the processes and thus the quality of the data
however. Consideration of interdisciplinary
needs in the working-fields like spatial
planning, watershed management, avalanche and
torrent control. Guideline of a multilingual
uniform documentation system, including phenomena
catalogue and providing common interfaces between
local event databases.
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WP Methodology
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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Open standards were defined, including
definitions of hazardous processes and collecting
phenomena, which can be identified immediately
after disasters. To implement these data in a
cartographic environment, a clear definition of
features was determined as well as a generalized
legend.
Source BUWAL 2000
Source BUWAL 2000
One important task of this WP is to adapt the
results of DOMODIS project to practical
requirements.
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WP System Development
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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Common information platform based on GIS and
the existing national and regional information
sources as web-portal.
WWW.DIS-ALP.ORG All results All papers Link to
portal
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WP System Development
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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Develop standards and terminology as ontology
(which is queryable as a free knowledge servie
and functioning as translation module).
A meta database on existing information, allows
to serve as a single entry point to a wide range
of information sources. Information provision
for different user groups, including the broad
public for the improvement of risk awareness and
risk estimation.
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WP System Development
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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• DIS-ALP event information portal
• uses open standards
• Integrates existing data services without
  duplicating data
• Provides interface for knowledge base

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WP Tools
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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New tools were tested to support the field
documentation process and make it more efficient,
thus increasing the possible number of recorded
events as well as the quality of recording.
The resulting tools for surveying are able to
combine traditional techniques with up-to-date
technologies (e.g. GPS, mobile GIS and GPRS).
Laser-scanner surveys can be carried out in the
cases of events of particular severity, in order
to detect possible variations in the topography
due to erosion and deposition phenomena.
Source Trento, Progress Report,2004
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WP Instructions
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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• Persons involved in event documentation must
  carefully be instructed. A new field-guidebook
  for supporting event documentation praxis was
  developed
• Make the recording persons aware of the
  importance of their documentation work.
• Ensure that when documenting all relevant data
  are collected in a standardized way and data
  fulfill the requirements of the end-user.
• Tutorials can be used in instruction courses as
  well as directly in the field
• Instruction workshops were organised to check
  practicability of instruction materials

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WP Implementation
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
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In implementation work-package regional test beds
for the defined methodology and the tools and
systems developed were defined. It was used for
evaluation of procedures and feed-back to other
work-packages. Results include event databases
and GIS data from historical events archives in
Bavaria, South Tyrol, Salzburg and documentations
of recent events in the Tyrol.
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Contact Points
DIS-ALP Disaster InformationSystem of Alpine
Regions

• DIS-ALP produced formalised knowledge base on
  disaster events, related phenomena and
  documentation (ontology)
• DIS-ALP integrates experience of different
  institutions on best documentation practices.
• DIS-ALP provides technical and organisational
  knowledge for definition and improvement of
  disaster documentation
• DIS-ALP offers event database, integrated in
  GIS-based open web-portal
• Resuming information www.dis-alp.org

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