COPE
Common Operational Picture Exploitation
| Coordinatore | TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT
Organization address
address: TEKNIIKANTIE 4 A contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Finland [FI] |
| Sito del progetto | http://cope.vtt.fi/ |
| Totale costo | 3˙886˙574 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙535˙049 € |
| Programma | FP7-SECURITY
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Security |
| Code Call | FP7-SEC-2007-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-02-01 - 2011-01-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT
Organization address
address: TEKNIIKANTIE 4 A contact info |
FI (ESPOO) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
"Pelastusopisto, Emergency Services College"
Organization address
address: Hulkontie 83 contact info |
FI (Kuopio) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd
Organization address
address: Warwick House contact info |
UK (FARNBOROUGH) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
BAE Systems C-ITS
Organization address
address: Ostermalmsgatan 87 contact info |
SE (STOCKHOLM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
CESS GMBH CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGIES
Organization address
address: OSTERWALDSTRASSE 57 contact info |
DE (MUNCHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
GMVIS SKYSOFT SA
Organization address
city: LISBOA contact info |
PT (LISBOA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
Ministerul Internelor si Reformei Administrative
Organization address
address: Piata Revolutiei contact info |
RO (Bucharest) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
Organization address
address: College Green - contact info |
IE (DUBLIN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
UTI SYSTEMS S.A.
Organization address
address: Cernauti Street 27C contact info |
RO (Bucharest) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The Common Operational Picture Exploitation (COPE) project will integrate COTS solutions and novel technologies to achieve a step change in information flow both from and to the first responder in order to increase situational awareness across agencies and at all levels of the command chain. A user-driven approach will be taken to develop new technologies for supporting user information requirements at the scene of the event. First responders belong to a heterogeneous group in terms of crisis environments as well as roles, command structure, organisational and national differences. Therefore, the project will apply a wide range of human factors methods to better understand the processes of individual agencies to ensure that new systems both match requirements and can be integrated with legacy processes and technologies. COPE will use the skills and competencies of a strong team of research scientists both from industry and academia, of technology providers and systems integrators supported by end users. The project will develop use cases with end users to build a rich picture of the requirements and moreover the differences in requirements across agencies, organisations and nations. Supported by the end user community, the requirements will be mapped against the technologies developed to offer tailored solutions. The consortium has much experience from crisis management projects and understands the need to enhance information flow between the first responders and higher command structures for better situational awareness. The project will realise and trial mobile technologies to support first responders by giving them: - the ability to share ground truth with the COP -increased cognitive situational awareness to enhance decision making -support for multi-agency co-operation and communication -the ability to localise personnel, to navigate and to generate maps -the capability to monitor safety issues, tasking, as well as post crisis audit'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Achieving and increasing situational awareness throughout and across response agencies is vital in emergency management situations. An EU-funded project has developed a new system for improving the information flow both from and to the first responder.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
During an emergency such as a major chemical spill, the emergency services rely on a common operational picture (COP) to monitor, respond to and manage the situation. A COP is a description at the time of the emergency situation that supports the emergency responders both within and between different emergency services to react appropriately.
Achieving a better COP was the aim of the 'Common operational picture exploitation' (COPE) project, funded by the EU. The project set out to create technological solutions designed to enable improved emergency management by enhancing the command-and-control performance, and the reliability of technical support.
Initially, COPE members gained a thorough understanding of the first responder's work and reviewed the appropriate methods and technologies. They then mapped the user requirements to the technological possibilities, and designed and developed the technological solutions. Finally, these solutions were tested in several trials.
According to the judgement of the first responder, end users and external stakeholders, the system and its components worked well in all the trials. Some temporary failures and reductions in functionality were expected but did not detract from the project's detailed and overall results.
The technological innovations and specifications resulting from COPE project efforts will be integrated into rescue service procedures as and when appropriate. This integration requires additional planning and future research in order to adapt the project's solutions and fully exploit its technology.