| Period |
Title |
Abstract |
More info |
My role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-1995 |
CARDIN |
CARDIN is a forest fire spread model
and a fire fighting simulation engine developed in the School of Forestry
of Madrid under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment. This model included
new features such as the application of Huygens principle to fire propagation
and the implementation of taxi-geometric solutions to the cellular automata. |
Theoretical designer, analyst and programmer |
|
| 1993-1996 |
SILVEX |
SILVEX is a simulation environment
for the forest management and 3D landscape visualisation. Developed in the
School of Forestry of Madrid, it was applied for academic purposes mainly. |
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Co-ordinator, theoretical designer, analyst
and programmer |
| 1994-1995 |
Environmental Infographics |
The School of Forestry in Madrid, the
Department of Silviculture, developed a programme for the integration of
GIS-based environmental management tools and 2D and 3D computer generated
images under Silicon Graphics platforms. |
Co-ordinator, system administrator, designer,
analyst and programmer |
|
| 1995-1996 |
Visual Simulation Lab -VSL |
I set-up VSL group mainly to carry
out inphographics projects applied to visual impact assessment in the design
and installation of electric power facilities, such as power lines and stations,
for the entity Red Eléctrica de España (REE). |
General manager, computer graphics responsible,
analyst and programmer |
|
| 1995-1996 |
DAC-1 |
Difusión Atmosférica
de Contaminantes (DAC) is a 3D computer model for the estimation of air
pollutants generation, transport and deposit in natural environment areas.
Developed in the School of Forestry of Madrid. |
Theoretical designer, analyst and programmer |
|
| 1996 |
Forest Fire Assessment Central - CVIF
|
The Regional Government of Madrid designed
and implemented the first centre for assessment and planning the forest
fire defence in the region. It integrated under GIS platforms dedicated information
systems, risk mapping, weather prediction, forces tracking and fire simulation. |
Co-ordinator, architecture designer,
analyst and programmer |
|
| 1997-1998 |
FOMFIS |
Forest Fire Management and Fire Prevention
System (ENV4-CT96-0335) is a research project co-funded by the European Commission
under the 4FP. The aim is to explore, design, develop and integrate a set
of planning tools for forest fire prevention. The resulting system contains
a fuel map service, a socio-economic risk model, a probabilistic fire scenario
generator, a fire simulation system, a fire fighting dispatching engine and
a cost-losses accounting system. |
Technical and scientific co-ordinator |
|
| 1999 |
ENINFO |
Environmental Venture Investment Information,
a project developed under the EC Ten-Telecom Programme. Market analysis and
validation for an integrated environmental management system addressed to
help SMEs in the chemical sector. The services and information offered are
related to environmental legislation, fiscal incentives, consulting companies
directory, certifications, waste exchange, BATs, etc. Once the prototype is
validated in Spain and for that particular sector, it will be possible to
develop a common trans-European trans-sectorial model. |
Main researcher |
|
| 2000 |
Geographical Documental Base on Forest
Fire Defence in Madrid, Spain - BADOC 2000 |
General co-ordinator |
||
| 2000-2002 |
FORFAIT |
Forest
Fire Risk Hazard Assessment: A Holistic Approach (IST-1999-10649).
The FORFAIT project sets out to develop a Decision Support
System (DSS) in order to assist planners, regulators and industries in optimising
the forest fire risks management. This system consists of three different
kinds of applications: • planning of fire prevention actions; • coordination of personnel training activities; • simulation of critical stages. FORFAIT is based on the integration of various information sources, such as satellite downlink, meteorological data, state-of-the-art predictive models, or involved professionals expertise and knowledge. Any decision process will be aided by a support system based on fuzzy logic to suggest the most appropriate course of action; also a probabilistic framework, which will take account of uncertainty in the parameters, will help. |
Main researcher |
|
| 2001 |
Master Plan of Forest Fire Defence
in Madrid - PECIF 2001 |
General co-ordinator |
||
| 2001 |
E-FIS |
Electronic On-line Decision Support
System for Forest Fires (C26789) under the Ten-Telecom Programme. E-FIS is
a user-friendly, on-line information system for forest fire risk management
in fire-prone areas of Europe. The system is accessible via Internet from
remote computers or from mobile Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) terminals
such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smartphones and communicators.
At present, the system primarily serves fire-fighting organisations on the
national and regional levels in the high-risk areas of Spain, Portugal, Greece,
Italy and France. E-FIS is also available to assist academic institutions
and private companies within these countries to develop their particular emergency
plans. |
E-FIS
Web site |
Technical and scientific co-ordinator |
| 2001 |
CLIFF |
CLuster Initiative for Flood and Fire
emergencies, a Concerted Action correspondent to the projects I+DT IST-1999-14104
and IST-1999-14104E |
CLIFF Web site at ESA |
Collaborator on forest fire domain |
| 2001-2004 |
WARM |
Wildland-Urban Area Fire Risk
Management (EVG1-CT-2001-00044). WARM project is concerned with the development
of a methodology and a Decision Support System (DSS) for the characterisation
and assessment on forest fire risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface and Rural
Areas (W-UI/RA) in Europe. To accomplish this objective a number of tasks
have been scheduled grouped in the following project phases: PHASE 1.- Project inception and data gathering (first year)· PHASE 2.- Study phase and experimentation (second year)· PHASE 3.- Computer tool development (second and third year)· PHASE 4.- Application to study cases and validation (third year) The different phases have been sequentially inter-related, thus experimentation is preceded by users needs identification, study areas selection, data gathering campaign and data base elaboration. Development of the tool is based on the outcome of experimentation activities and, finally, application to study cases and validation is subject to the development of WARM tool. |
General co-ordinator |
|
| 2002 |
Forest Fuel Characterisation in Tenerife
Island, Spain |
General co-ordinator |
||
| 2002-2004 |
AUTO-HAZARD PRO |
This project which title is Automated
Fire And Flood Hazard Protection System (EVG1-CT-2001-00057) |
AUTOHAZARD
Web site |
Main researcher |
| 2003 - |
EUFIRELAB |
Euro-Mediterranean Wildland Fire Laboratory
(EVR1-CT-2002-40028 ) . EUFIRELAB will enable large exchange of knowledge,
know-how, data, results and analysis for improving the level of the wildland
fire sciences and technologies in the Euro-Mediterranean area. Specifically,
a large database on existing publications and references and manin actors
in the forest fire research community is freely available in several languages. |
EUFIRELAB
Web site |
Co-ordination board member and responsible
of Unit 10 |
| 2004 - 2007 |
ORCHESTRA |
Open Architecture and Spatial Data Architecture
for Risk Management (FP6-511678). The overall goal of ORCHESTRA is to
design and implement an open service oriented software architecture that will
improve the interoperability among actors involved in Multi-Risk Management
in Europe. Special attention will be paid to providing a solution for the
combination of spatial and non-spatial data and services. The Orchestra architecture
will be a precursor of the INSPIRE and GMES infrastructure. |
ORCHESTRA Web site |
Main researcher and knowledge provider
on forest fires |
| 2004 - 2006 |
MEDIGRID |
Mediterranean Grid of Multi-Risk Data and Models ().The MEDIGRID project aims to create a distributed framework for multi-risk assessment of natural disasters. In order to achieve the above strategic objective several parallel tasks must be accomplished and a number of particular objectives to be addressed. The project will integrate in the above framework models of forest fire behaviour and effects, flash floods and landslides, developed in frame of previous EC projects. These models will be upgraded to web applications in order to be able to run remotely as web services over the internet. A distributed repository with EO data, combined with field measurements from countries that have suffered important forest fires during the last summer will be created by the project partners. Such data will be defined according to the requirements of the models that will be integrated and tested within MEDIGRID. The data structure and organization will be designed in order to comply with the concept of respective EC initiatives (INSPIRE, EU-MEDIN, ESPON) for data standardisation. The individual models in the context of a models validation framework will use these data. The entire system of models and data will be shaped further as a multi-risk assessment and decision support information platform. | Main researcher |