Earth science

When a flood is going to happen, decision makers have to decide what are the most appropriate reactions: evacuation of the population, reinforcement of dykes, etc. The ANFAS project (datA fusioN for Flood Analysis and decision Support, 2000-03) developed a support decision system for flood prevention and protection, integrating the most advanced techniques in data processing and management.

CROSSGRID project (Development of Grid Environment for Interactive Applications, 2002-05) developed, implemented and exploited new Grid components for interactive compute and data intensive applications like simulation and visualisation for surgical procedures, flooding crisis, team decision support systems, distributed data analysis in high-energy physics, air pollution combined with weather forecasting.

CrossGrid application win the “best demo award” at the EGEE conference Athens 2005.

MEDIGRID project (Mediterranean Grid of Multi-Risk Data and Models, 2004-2006) aims to create a distributed framework for multi-risk assessment of natural disasters. The project will integrate models of forest fire behaviour and effects, flash floods and landslides, developed in frame of previous EC projects. These models will be upgraded to web applications in order to be able to run remotely as web services over the internet.

DEGREE (Dissemination and Exploitation of GRids in Earth sciencE) is a Specific Support Action project which aims to promote GRID throughout a large and diverse Earth Science community, in order to increase the awareness and uptake of GRID technology and infrastructure by EU Earth Science Industry and Research communities. In order to ensure that ES requirements are taken into account in the next Grid generation, DEGREE will initiate different collaborations; at short, medium and long term via EU horizontal collaborations, specific collaboration with Grid projects and participation to the eInfrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG).