International Conference on Forest Fire & WUI Fires
Forestfire2016-May 25-27th – Christophe Frerson
Improving situation awareness
with social media & aerial monitoring system
in WUI Fires
Ministry of the Interior
Homeland security
Defense and Civil
Security Department
& crisis management
Interministry
coordination center
COGIC
Zone Prefect
Zone headquarter
Zonal interagency
coordination center
Prefect
Fire Department
Department
coordination center
Mayor
Firestation
Local dispatcher
Emergency Operation Centers
Like operational data lift
50% of French crises occur in southern France.
We manage all kind of hazards except volcanoes.
3 regions, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (French Riviera)
Languedoc-Roussillon and Corsica,
21 departments (+2 during fire season).
We serve 10 Million inhabitants and several million of tourists
over a territory of 113,000 km². 900kms wide -15 staff 24/7
during fire season
Southern regional interagency
coordinator center named “COZ Sud”
Mission:
• Anticipation
• Coordination of national fleet of firefighter aircrafts
• Manage all search and rescue helicopters.
• Could dispatch resources with 35,000 firefighters,
professionals, volunteers, soldiers and civil protection military
force of 1,000 staff to reinforce fire departments.
• 24,000 policemen – 16,000 gendarmes (military policemen)
High urbanization and density of population
Large areas of wildland urban interface « WUI »
Extreme fires that require deployment of many resources,Flash floods & heavy rains
COZ
Southern regional interagency
coordinator center named “COZ Sud”
CORSICA
Southern France
Forest fire location in France
Extreme fires that require many resources:
Thousands of men on the field, hundreds of
vehicles
More than a dozen aircraft of different types
simultaneously (helicopters, scoopers, tankers)
Context
Improving situation awareness in WUI Fires
1 - Aerial – Monitoring System
2 - Social Media
AERIAL MONITORING SYSTEM
improving situational awareness
Features
Aerial monitoring Introduction
• Since 2006, 3 fire & rescue services have decided to
use aerial surveillance solution with live video for forest
fires in order to help manage these major incidents and
improve situation awareness.
• = reduce uncertainty – improve safety
• 180,000€ during 3 months and 60 flight hours,
subcontracting with CAE aviation company.
http://www.cae-aviation.com/
Aerial monitoring system features
Aerial monitoring system in Corsica
Wildfires
Implementation
Improve situation awareness :
– Real time video
– High quality pictures, movie and zoom
– Infrared sensors
– Tracking
– Measurement of distances and perimeters
Aerial monitoring system features
PLANE AND OPTRONICS SYSTEMS
Cessna C208 Caravan
• Flight range of over 7
hours
• Pilot, operator, and 1 or 2
firefighters on board
Optronics System
• Gyro-stabilized camera
• Color sensor
• Infrared sensor
• Video recorder
Aerial monitoring system features
Fire dept coordination center
Command car
Radio relay
120 kmsTactical mode
30 kms
Smartphone
Satellite data broadcasting
Regional interagency
coordination center
National coordination
center
Aerial monitoring system features
VIDEO AND DATA TRANSMISSION
Aerial monitoring system features
AIRCRAFT
ALTITUDE &
cap
NORTH
TIME – DATE
UTC 12h45
Fr = 14h45
AIRCRAFT
POSITION
TARGET
POSITION
DIGITAL INFORMATION
TARGET
ALTITUDE
AIRCRAFT –
TARGET
DISTANCE
Zoom X 1000 possibleVisible or IR
Aerial monitoring system features
Forest surveillance and fire detection
Forest surveillance and fire detection
Fire line
Fire propagation and rate of spread
Distance between the fire
and railroad threatened
Forest fire evaluation and monitoring
Forest surveillance and fire detection
Field action evaluation
AERIAL EVALUATION
AERIAL EVALUATION
Feu Solaro-Solenzara 15 août 2014
Picture or movie
From picture toward intelligence
Common operating picture - Solaro-Solenzara 2014 August 15th
Aerial monitoring System mapping
Wildfires
NTO
Sensitivity to operation
Situation awerness
Bubble – improve your picture
Decision making
Case study
Case study
Sari-Ghiso
Camping 600 peoples
Tree climbing game site
Houses & structures
Village
T + 22 minutes
T + 45 minutes
Evacuation by beach
Evacuation toward sea
bridge
Defend houses – strike team
Retardant drops
With Aircraft
Our command
Follow our decisions
Dash drop feu en ville
Tree climbing game site
Campingvillage
Retardant drops
Outcomes
No dead or injured, camping burned with 50 mobile homes, caravans & restaurant burned.
Tree Climbing Game Site burned. No house burned, 600 homeless
We think:
aerial monitoring system is added value for
decision maker in WUI Fires
#SMEM
Do social media can help crisis manager
and People on WUI Fires?
People = new behavior
People = new behavior
Lot of informations on web & social medias
• People get information before rescue services, real time, movies, pictures, text, comments,
maps
Transforming information into inteligence
Informing people
Asking people
FB – Feux de forêt – more than 17,000 followers
Tweet deck
monitoring
#
Menton
Fire 2015
Tag board – tweet deck
Call a @VOST
VOST are volunteer operation support teams, activated to perform specific digital
functions in support of participating organizations or agencies
through open-source data collection, aggregation, verification, and dissemination
What is a VOST?
» many agencies do not have the manpower to effectively leverage the social media spaceduring and after a disaster
» Each VOST has a Team Leader that reports directly to the affected organization
» Organization signed agreement with @VISOV which is a French VOST
@VOST
VOST - VISOV
Partnership with VOST
• Association of volunteers
• Gathering information
• Analysis & filter
• Assessment
• Validation
• Abstract
• Spacialisation
• Communication
• Providing collaborative
sheet
• Semantic research
tool
• Tag board / google alert
• Geolocated
informations research
tools
• Easy geo tweet
• Collaborative mapping
• Ushaïdi
• sharing tools
• Google drive sheet
Providing collaborative sheet
Added value of #SMEM in Operations
• Anticipation
• Monitoring weak signal (watcher)
• Improving situational awareness
• Real time interaction with people
• Beat of people
• Crowd mapping
• Crowd sourcing
• Geolocated information
• Communication with people
• People become actor of his own safety
• Early warning system with people
How to implement #SMEM ?
How to implement #SMEM ?
• Agreement – free contract with VOST
• Training our staff on #SMEM tools
• Guidelines
• Good link between authorities, Fire & Rescue service and other crisis cells and give same message = operational bubble
• Strategic position in crisis cell between ops & com
• Employ young people in #SMEM team
• Integrate communities on social medias
• Maintain energy & telecommunication providers
How to implement #SMEM in Crisis room ?
Position in crisis cell
Map & inteligence
location in crisis cellsdis83 exemple
Location in crisis cell
Exemple of
Southern
Regional
Interagency
Coordination
Center
In the future…Apps?
Apps - Example of project : CORSEinfo112
• Using social media to inform & alert people like an early warning system
• Receiving automatic short text when you go in dangerous area
• Getting on apps informations about natural and man made risks where you live
Prefect Laurent Prevost
Head of French general directorate of civil protection and crises management
Conclusion
“Fire suppression in the next decade will begin a
transformation process driven by technology,
requirements for greater mobility and agility, and
suppression strategies that will demand new levels of
flexibility and precision”
Source: Quadriennal Fire Review, 2009
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Sources:
EMIZDS Sud, sdis2bG Martin Atrisc, A. Demontis Entente de Valabre, @visov1, sdis13, sdis30, sdis83,