An open service platform for multi-hazard in action - the PHAROS pilot demonstration

Natural and man-made disaster, whose impact has been increasing on the last years, present a series of common dynamics which can be exploited for a more ef®cient emergency management. Current disaster management systems focus on single types of emergencies and cannot be ̄exibly adapted to the respective situation. The presented approach developed during the PHAROS project describes an integrated service platform which offers tools for multi-hazard emergency management using a modular and ̄exible structure. The assets provided by PHAROS include:(i) data collecting and processing, (ii) communication and alerting means, (iii) risk and emergency detection and situation assessment, (iv) decision support. In addition to the system scope and description, the paper presents the PHAROS pilot demonstration used to validate the system. For this evaluation the system was developed for a forest ®re scenario and tested in Solsona, Spain in March 2016 during a real operational prescribed burn.