Within the EU project EPISECC (Establish Pan-European Information Space to Enhance Security of Citizens) the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is creating an Europe-wide inventory of events and disasters. This includes information about the actual events, the introduced support...

Floods, storms, extreme weathers, forest fires, earthquakes and technical disasters often affect wide areas of Europe. To optimize Europe-wide preparedness and to improve disaster relief actions the European Union is funding the project "Driving Innovation in Crisis Management...

The 4th Sino-German Symposium on Urban Road Traffic Safety co-organized by Tongji University and German Aerospace Center (DLR) with focus on Traffic Management and Safety during major events & disasters, for road planning and design and for operation of Tram took place at Tongji...

In the EU project SOCIETIES concepts for combining social Networks with sensor-based Pervasive Computing have been developed in between September 2010 and April 2014. The Results were demonstrated to a user group from the Disaster Management Community, among others, and the usage...