AHEAD

Overview

Description

AHEAD builds on prior efforts to deliver a fully engineered information system for collecting and analysing post-disaster damage and loss data for Europe. The information system will permit to input geolocated data on damage to multiple sectors and to query the system to obtain data reporting and visualisation for different purposes. The latter include accounting for the Sendai indicators, requests to the Solidarity Fund, compensation either by state or insurance, improvement of risk analysis, evidence based early warning, forensic investigation to support disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation measures. 

The following will be the object of detailed data modelling and implementation as fields in the information system: damage to cultural heritage, waste and water systems, structural defences, and natural ecosystems. Stakeholders of the AHEAD hub will be invited first to co-create the relational data model and second to test the information system. 

Three main outcomes are expected: the integration of the fully engineered AHEAD information system, completed with the above-mentioned sectors in the Risk Data Hub of the JRC, and a list of requirements that can be used by developers of information system that are already in use by Member States and regions. 

Finally, a kit for training on the advantages and the needs of post disaster damage data collection and reporting will be built to support administrations at different levels.

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