eoPortal Directory - database of earth observation resources  
Information Presentation  
Project
Seismic Risk Evaluation
Type(s) Research project
European Union funded project
Owner Strategy and Systems for Space Applications Unit (SSSA)
Organisation Other EO projects
Abstract The purpose of the project is an integrated package of amultiple set of modules that incorporate the expertise of earthquake and structural engineers, seismologists, geologists and architects as knowledge bases for site risk evaluation, model selection, vulnerability and damage assessment.
This general framework will be split in different parts to suit different scales (regional, sub-regional and local) including the collection of new and available data, and the development and integration of software tools inside the same Geographical Information System (GIS), together with Decision Support System (DSS) modules.
At the regional scale will be analysed the Toscana area (Italy) producing both risk maps and risk scenarios. At the sub-regional level for the Garfagnana area (Italy) will be carried out, besides slope vulnerability analysis, also technological vulnerability assessment. Vulnerable technological elements might produce induced hazards during and after earthquakes that will be part of the final risk assessment and scenarios. At the local scale, Barcelona city (Spain), the same type analysis will be performed adding the influence of soil conditions on hazard. Furthermore, at this local level, will be assessed the consequences of some special buildings failure on the town functionalism.

Universitat Politecnica de Catalu?a, Barcelona, Spain
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano, Italy
STEC - Ingegneria e Architetti Srl, Roma, Italy
Universite de Geneve,Geneve, Switzerland
International Institute for AerospaceSurvey and Earth Sciences,Enschede, Netherlands
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain

 
Discipline(s) Natural hazards & disasters
Point of Contact
Name & Address Other EO projects
European Commission
Centre for Earth Observation
Italy
 
Phone 0039 332 78 5967
Fax 0039 332 78 5461
E-mail (#at# is @) ewse-helpdesk#at#jrc.it
Other Information
Spatial Coverage & Location(s) Lat: 45.32° - Lon: 8.73°
Italy
 
Temporal Coverage 01/03/1996
Language(s) of Resource English
Resources of same Organisation



Strategy and Systems for Space Applications Unit (SSSA)

 Event (26)

 Library (5)

 Project (251)

 Promotion (38)

 Service (13)

 Software/model (5)

Resources of same Type



Project>Research project

Project>European Union funded project

  Disclaimer         Contact eoPortal Last modified: 24-Jan-2008