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QoAir: A blockchain-based system for heatwave management in urban areas

Every summer in big cities are reported death cases, discomforts or sicknesses, especially in eld...

Heatwaves

Buildings

FireAd (Fire Risk Monitor Advisor)

The risk of wildfires can be reduced through the application of prescribed burning practices. How...

FIRECAST

Societal exposure to large fires has been increasing in recent years. Our fire forecasting system...

Unified Fire Protection Units and System-UFPUS

Knowing that forest fires represent a constant threat to ecological systems, infrastructure, econ...

Wildfire Defense Platform

In Portugal we had another tragedy, the second this year (2017), ending in a 106 death toll due t...

Application Framework with Drone system

ICT System for early warning and monitoring composed by: on site sensors (e.g. along a river); an...

Flood Local Tool – Albania

Flash floods are characterized by the occurrence of their flood peaks within 3-6 hours after the ...

HAZ-I

A flood is the most common and the most damage inflicting natural disaster. Climate change causes...

Maptionnaire in Albania

In Albania there is scarcity of information and mobilization during Civil Emergencies, mostly flo...

My Flood Risk

In the EU many citizens are at risk of floods from rivers, seas and heavy rainfall. Reliable, sci...

Operational flood forecasting system including levee performance

Heavy rainfall and/or high discharges upstream cause rising water levels in rivers and streams. C...

Coastal areas Water management

InfoSequia

Timely and systematic generation of actionable warnings and risk indicators on the severity and e...

Raincast: A seasonal forecasting system for drought management

Raincast improves the making-decision process of agencies and companies in the water (basin autho...

Agriculture Energy Water management

Mole: An underground soil moisture sensor linked to the cloud

Soil moisture is an important factor in precision agriculture for enabling flexible and smart irr...

Hydroeconomic DSS tools for drought management

Finding and implementation of optimal operating rules on surface reservoirs and aquifers to effic...

IRRINET-IRRIFRAME

Irrigated agriculture is the most relevant water use sector, therefore highlighting the key role ...

PrHo

TIC solutions for better agriculture and crop management

AquaTag Remote

Affordable remote measurement of soil moisture, EC and temperature for horticulture and agricultu...

V.E.R.A. project

WATER: Improvement of water efficiency, management, and quality/quantity; CITY SUSTAINABILITY: Im...

FREEWAT

FREEWAT platform helps in increasing resilience to water related hazards, in particular drought, ...

Irriframe-Acquacampus

Maximizing irrigation efficiency is recognized as a key priority for optimizing water resources m...

ARIEL, soil moisture retrieval by microwave remote sensing

High-resolution monitoring of soil moisture at the land surface level

SkyDowser

Climate change is un undeniable fact to which we, as mankind, have to find ways to adapt. To a la...

ArboDroughtStress

Changes in climate and their impact on agricultural systems and rural economies are already evide...

AUDIMOD

AUDIMOD is a decision support tool that is designed to help investors and decision makers to simu...

Agriculture Financial

PAS-WATER

PAS-WATER is a comprehensive diagnosis and analysis framework aiming to facilitate an improved wa...

Financial Water management

3C for Cities

Urban growth combined with increasing rainfall intensities due to climate change may lead to a ra...

Disaster risk reduction Transport

A LAM model for regions with complex orography

The increase in planetary temperature has led to an increase in the thermal energy resources avai...

CENTAUR

Due to urban spread and more intense rainfall, water infrastructure is often unable to convey flo...

GM4W – GeoGuard Module for Water vapor monitoring

Monitoring the temporal and spatial variability of precipitable water vapour (PWV) at a local sca...

NEFOCAST

In spite of the variety of existing methods to measure precipitation, the retrieval of rainfall f...

SenZ2 wireless level radar transmitter

Monitoring water system infrastructures in real-time, and in high resolution, is very important t...

Smart Rainfall System

The climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and the hydr...

Urban flood hazard analysis

Climate change will lead to more extreme precipitation events for many cities in the world. In su...

Urban flood nowcasting system

Cities are becoming more vulnerable to flooding because of rapid urbanization and increasing rain...

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

URBRAIN

The traditional urban planning and stormwater management can no longer respond to high intensity ...

Transport Water management

WaterView – IR2

Today precipitation is monitored by combining terrestrial systems, weather radars and satellite i...

SCAN

A tool to evaluate and optimize water management and climate adaptation strategies at the scale o...

Expanded EM-DAT disaster database to the European level (eEM-DAT)

Development of an easy-to-use software tool for monitoring impact of climaterelated disasters

Education Models and tools

Toolkit Method

It is a GIS based expert system aimed at providing a synthetic general evaluation of the feasibil...

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Dike Profile Generator

Under the Dutch Water Act water managers are required to assess the flood probability of the prim...

My Water Level

Due to climate change river flood plains and coastal areas will more frequently face extreme low ...

All4Elevation

Flooding kills more than 6000 people every year, leaves millions of people homeless and causes mo...

Spatial Processes in HYdrology (SPHY)

Many hydrological models exist nowadays provide us with answers to questions focusing on the impa...

GIS-WRAP

Assessment and forecast of weather extreme events

MobiKat – Support for complex strategic and operative decision-making

Fraunhofer MobiKat has been designed to effectively support preparation and management of large-s...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Drone+LiDAR for emergency response

Updated, detailed information and data acquisition on the displacement and location of flood defe...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

ORF-4R Evaluation for Organic Regenerative Farming

Our activities focus on SE Spain, which covers more than 1.000.000 hectares of semiarid steppes. ...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools

AdapKIT

Climate Change Adaptation, even when recognized as a priority, is poorly developed and adaptation...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Albania Alert -EWS

The Albanian National Center for Forecast and Monitoring of Natural Risks (NCFMNR) is responsible...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Disaster Mitigation and Response Information System

This all-in-one solution is designed to cope with all the types of emergencies in focus of the BR...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

SIDS disaster Risk Reduction Portal

Many Small Island Developing States (SIDS) around the globe, face similar challenges concerning c...

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations Models and tools

MyFloodRisk (for business)

In the EU many businesses are at risk of floods. Although information is available such as the EU...

Education Governance and social innovations Models and tools

FlooDrought

In the last years, climate change has led to increasing disturbance of the water balance – mainly...

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Low cost meteorological stations

Meteorological data are very important for an accurate analysis of the exact cause of flood, that...

SAEx–L (Signal of Atmosphere Extreme Locally)

Alerting the population that lives or occasionally is situated in an urban area that is expected ...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

MyClimateServices.eu

Infrastructure projects imply considerable investment and have a lifetime of several decades. The...

Buildings Disaster risk reduction

Education Models and tools

I-REACT

Society as a whole is increasingly exposed and vulnerable to natural disasters because extreme we...