On November 3rd and 4th 2016, STORM, through the DGPC, attended the International Conference “Cultural Heritage: Disaster Prevention, Response and Recovery” that took place in Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and was organized in cooperation with the National Coach Museum. The Conference aimed to promote the debate and the sharing of experiences about the current situation regarding prevention policies for the protection …
STORM and Historic England met in London
On Monday April the 10th, the second meeting with Historic England took place in London. The main objective of the meeting was to inform Mrs Hannah Fluck about project progresses and to plan a possible participation to workshops where specific themes could be addressed. The first idea is to organise one of them in Mellor where involve all potential …
Prof. De Caro (ICCROM) interviewed by project team
Last March the 27th in Rome during the general assembly of H2020 STORM project, Prof. Stefano De Caro, managing director of ICCROM has been interviewed by the project team. He focused very important priorities in the training needs for people dealing with emergencies and also emphasised the added values new technologies could bring to disasters management. See the entire interview …
Testing a low cost UAV to check the situation of a wall after a storm
After a storm in Santa Severa (close to Rome in Italy), a test has been done to check how a low cost UAV (Dij Phantom3 standard), could provide an overall view of existing possible damages affecting the castle wall. The resolution used was not very high (HD), but results achieved are usable for a quick analysis to decide if apply deeper …
STORM team visited DiComaC (Main Direction for Coordination and Control of Earthquake Intervention)
Thanks to Claudio De Angelis and Stefano Marsella from CNVVF, the STORM project team had the chance to visit to coordination office where all the intervention in the earthquake crater are coordinated involving all agents from the fire fighters, civil protection, cultural heritage authorities and …
Weather data collection and visualization
Archaeological and historic sites all over Europe are vulnerable to damage and destruction from a number of natural and human actions. Sparta, University of Salford and Mellor Archaeological Trust deploy Weather Stations and Sensors based IoT (Internet of Things) technologies to monitor environmental changes and their impact on historic structures, chosen as a pilot site in United Kingdom for project STORM. After …
Second Scientific Seminar of the Knowledge Centre for Disaster Risk Management: Science for Policy and Operations
The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre is glad to announce that the registration to the DRMKC 2nd Annual Scientific Seminar is now open and will close on 18th February . The seminar will be hosted by the Italian Department of Civil Protection in Rome, from 9th to 10th of March: cover the progress made by the DRMKC since its launch in September 2015 gather early input to the upcoming 2018-2019 DRMKC Action Plan address challenges for policy and …
STORM has been invited to the European network of projects on cultural heritage
The STORM project will participate at the fourth networking session for EC projects (6 March 2017, Padova – Italy). The event, organised in cooperation with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, aims to make a plan and to define joint recommendations to be plugged into the programme of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018. …
STORM project met Historic England
On December 14th Mrs. Hannah Fluck, PhD, FSA (Historic Environment Intelligence Officer (Environmental Impacts), Historic Environment Intelligence Team, Strategic Planning and Management Department) has been interviewed by a representative of STORM project. The main purpose of the interview was to understand the current English situation in the cultural heritage at risk due to climate changes management. Mrs. Hannah Fluck provided …
Tróia Pilot Site Summary
Tróia Pilot Site Meeting was a huge success with almost 50 attendees, from the different organizations and countries listed in the project, Italy, United Kingdom, Turkey, Greece and also Germany (ex. University of Stuttgart), with a strong representation of the Portuguese partners, since it was held in Portugal. Besides all the partners, technical and pilot sites, there was also stakeholders …