Free software to facilitate emergency rescue

The project, called "GEO-PICTURES ', is funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union, and will use this technology to quickly manage and satellite photographs, videos and any kind of information emitted from an area in emergency situations.

The Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) participates in a European project that aims to use space technology to free software to facilitate the rescue of persons who have been trapped behind some type of disaster occur.

The development of the project will last two years, and its ultimate goal is to facilitate the activities of rescue, saving lives and mitigating the environmental and material damage caused by disasters.

From the university point out that, in emergency situations, "is vital to communicate from the scene that occurs where the fastest and most accurate way possible." Today, they say that "the only existing communications infrastructure with global coverage is the network of telecommunications satellites in space."

So, the project works in the construction of a platform for managing photos, video, sensor data and reports data in real time and worldwide. This platform will be held in Oslo and will be a system that will be housed at the United Nations (UNITAR-UNOSAT) and in the facilities of CERN (Geneva).

Research teams with extensive experience in on-line mapping will produce maps of real time status information in combination with sensors and space and ground images. In this way, can be obtained quickly and at any place on earth, high-resolution photos, videos, sound and data as the local temperature, humidity or wind speed and direction.

To achieve its aims, the project combines the latest advances in satellite communication and observation, navigation systems and observation of the Earth's surface, based on a core technology to communications and image sensor data geolocated.

EQUIPMENT BASED ANDROID

As part of the project is also designed communications equipment, light and small, technology-based mobile and Android platform based on Linux. These teams will be an integrated tool for disaster management experts, so they can make quick decisions and advise emergency personnel.

Also is being considered, within the project, the design of small unmanned aircraft will observe the disaster areas and send information.

GEO-PICTURES, which will be useful throughout the world, and contributed in its pilot version leaner, in managing the emergency zones in Haiti after the earthquake of January. T

UAB DEPARTMENT OF THE RES

The contribution of the Autonomous University of Barcelona to the project will be interdisciplinary and will deal with different aspects for robust technologies for the management of global disasters.

In particular, three groups are involved research three different departments of the UAB. GICI group (Group for Interactive Image Coding), Department of Information Engineering and Communications, the research group Grumet (Group Methods and Applications in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems), Department of Geography and group research and Satellite Wireless Communications, Department of Telecommunication and Systems Engineering.

The project is led by the Norwegian company Ansur Technologies SA. In addition to UAB, this project involves research groups in Norway, Germany, Austria and Brazil, and user groups of the United Nations, the European plan of the EU Civil Protection and the Government of Amazonas (Brazil).

Source: EUROPAPRESS
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