Abstract
Abstract. Regular international civil protection exercises are an important part of the European Civil Protection Mechanism. One such exercise, called IRONORE2019, took place in September 2019 in Eisenerz, Austria, with the aim of training international cooperation of relief teams in case of an earthquake. In parallel to this exercise, the European project DRIVER+ conduced a Trail in order to test novel solutions for civil protection. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) provided aerial imagery as well as derived map products to the project and the exercise, which were also made available to the Bavarian Red Cross, among others, as exercise participants. In this way, products developed using the latest scientific methods could be used and tested in practice. The valuable experiences from this operational use, which are explained in this article, serve the enhancement of the processes and products and will be implemented in the future in order to further support disaster management.
Highlights
Over the last years the occurrence of climate change-related events such as heavy rain falls, floods, thunderstorms or wildfires continuously increased in frequency and severity and poses an enormous challenge for the crisis management sector
The main aim of the project is the development and uptake of innovative solutions that are addressing the operational needs of practitioners dealing with crisis management (DRIVER+, 2020)
Organized by the Austrian Red Cross (ARC) and the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), the Trial was conducted as a multi-day field exercise and hold in parallel to the large scale European Civil Protection exercise IRONORE2019 in Eisenerz, Austria, from the 12th to the 14th of September 2019
Summary
Over the last years the occurrence of climate change-related events such as heavy rain falls, floods, thunderstorms or wildfires continuously increased in frequency and severity and poses an enormous challenge for the crisis management sector. The main aim of the project is the development and uptake of innovative solutions that are addressing the operational needs of practitioners dealing with crisis management (DRIVER+, 2020). The German Aerospace Center (DLR) was a partner of the DRIVER+ project and provided for the Trial Austria an innovative solution for the support of situational awareness during crisis. 2. REAL-TIME AERIAL IMAGE PRODUCTS FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT mapping mode. REAL-TIME AERIAL IMAGE PRODUCTS FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT mapping mode The difference between these modes are the image acquisition rate (1 Hz vs 0.25 Hz ) and the distance between flight strips (60% vs 10%) to increase on the one hand the overlap between the images for stable 3D generation and to lower on the other hand the data rate for downlink by lowering the overlap. We present the products that can be derived from the captured aerial images and show what kind of information we can automatically derive from the data
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