SILVANUS

SILVANUS envisages to deliver an environmentally sustainable and climate resilient forest management platform through innovative capabilities to prevent and combat against the ignition and spread of forest fires. The platform will cater to the demands of efficient resource utilisation and provide protection against threats of wildfires encountered globally. The project will establish synergies between (i) environmental; (ii) technology and (iii) social science experts for enhancing the ability of regional and national authorities to monitor forest resources, evaluate biodiversity, generate more accurate fire risk indicators and promote safety regulations among citizens through awareness campaigns. The novelty of SILVANUS lies in the development and integration of advanced semantic technologies to systematically formalise the knowledge of forest administration and resource utilisation. Additionally, the platform will integrate a big-data processing framework capable of analysing heterogeneous data sources including earth observation resources, climate models and weather data, continuous on-board computation of multi-spectral video streams. Also, the project integrates a series of sensor and actuator technologies using innovative wireless communication infrastructure through the coordination of aerial vehicles and ground robots.

ITI is responsible for leading a task on social media sensing and concept extraction. The task will focus on the collection of citizen observations from social media, in particular Twitter, about possible fire incidents, in order to contribute to early-stage detection of wildfires. In addition, location-related concepts and visual concepts, such as smoke, flames, etc., will be extracted from the textual and visual content of the social media posts, to gain more insight on potential fire events.

Consortium

Università Telematica Pegaso, Italy
Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anaptyxis, Greece
Zanasi Alessandro Srl, Italy
INTRASOFT International SA, Luxembourg
Thales, France
Fincons SpA, Italy
Atos IT Solutions & Services Iberia SL, Spain
EMC Information Systems International, Ireland
Software Imagination & Vision SRL, Romania
CNET – Centre for New Energy Technologies SA, Portugal
Adp Valor – Serviços Ambientais, S.A., Portugal
Terraprima – Serviços Ambientais, Sociedade Unipessoal, Lda., Portugal
3Mon s.r.o., Slovakia
Catalink Limited, Cyprus
SYNTHESIS Center for Research and Education Limited, Cyprus
Expert.ai SpA, Italy
ITTI Sp. z o. o., Poland
Izquierdo/Piatrik GBR, Germany
Massive Dynamic Sweden AB, Sweden
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Italy
EXUS Software LTD, Greece
RiniGARD d.o.o. za usluge, Croatia
MICRO DIGITAL d.o.o. za informacijske tehnologije, Croatia
Politechnika Warszawska, Poland
Högskolan i Borås, Sweden
Geoponiko Panepistimion Athinon, Greece
Panepistimio Thessalias, Greece
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Veleučilište Velika Gorica, Croatia
Ústav informatiky, Slovenská Akadémia Vied, Slovakia
Pompiers de l’urgence international, France
The Main School of Fire Service, Poland
Agenzia Regionale Strategica per lo Sviluppo Ecosostenibile del Territorio, Italy
Lets Italia SRLS, Italy
Parco Naturale Regionale di Tepilora, Italy
Fundația pentru SMURD, Romania
Asociația Forestierilor din România ASFOR, Romania
Kentro Meleton Asfaleias, Greece
Elliniki Omada Diasosis Somateio, Greece
Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, Greece
Ospedale Israelitico, Italy
Perifereia Stereas Elladas, Greece
Hasičský záchranný sbor Moravskoslezského kraje, Czechia
Hrvatska vatrogasna zajednica, Croatia
Technická univerzita vo Zvolene, Slovakia
Občianske Združenie Plameň Badín, Slovakia
Yayasan AMIKOM Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil