The LAMPRE project aims to improve response to landslide hazards through new modeling and mapping techniques. The 24-month project involves 10 partners across 6 countries. Key objectives are to advance scientific understanding of landslides, establish standards for flexible landslide mapping products, and develop a pre-operational service to support decision-making across the disaster cycle. The project will test sites in vulnerable areas and engage stakeholders like civil protection agencies to communicate new tools addressing needs such as susceptibility mapping and post-event assessment. Results and best practices will be disseminated through workshops, publications, and by establishing collaboration networks.

1. COMMUNICATION WITH USERS AND STAKEHOLDERS IN
RESPONSE TO LANDSLIDE HAZARDS WITHIN THE CONTEXT
OF THE LAMPRE PROJECT
SUPERSITES COORDINATION WORKSHOP
Brussels, 10-11 June 2013
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2. PROJECT IN A NUTSHELL
LAndslide Modelling and tools for vulnerability assessment
Preparedness and REcovery management
FP7-SPA-2012-1.1-04: Support to emergency response
Prevention
Preparedness
Response
Recovery
 Started 1 Mar. 2013
 Duration: 24 months
 Total costs: 2.5 M€
 10 partners in 6 countries
 Coordinated by CNR (IT)
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3. CONSORTIUM
Research Organizations
End-users
Companies
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4. RATIONALE
The quality, accuracy and completeness of landslide
maps produced by GMES services are limited.
Little information is provided to users on the
propensity of a territory to generate landslides,
considering different triggers (e.g. rainfall,
earthquakes, snowmelt events).
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5. OBJECTIVES
Improve Civil Protection Authorities
response capacity for landslide
preparedness/mitigation &
recovery/reconstruction through products
Improve the ability to detect/map landslides,
assess/forecast the impact of landslides on
vulnerable elements (built-up areas and
transportation networks)
Improve the use of satellite imagery to prepare event,
seasonal and multi-temporal landslide maps exploiting
the ESA sentinel satellites within GMES services.
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6. ACTIVITIES…
Researching and developing new techniques and
products to dynamically integrate satellite/airborne
imagery
Designing and using intelligent image processing
techniques
Modelling landslide-infrastructure interactions
using advanced numerical modeling and ground
based thematic information
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7. … AND OUTCOMES
1. Advancing scientific knowledge about landslides
caused by different triggers.
2. Establishing standards and delivering general and
site specific flexible geo-processing products for
improved:
 landslide datasets and related frequency-size statistics
 landslide detection and mapping
 modelling of landslide susceptibility
 assessing vulnerability and impact
3. A blue-print for pre-operational service
supporting decision making for the landslide disaster
cycle
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8. TEST SITES
Highly vulnerable areas in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Central America
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9. COMMUNICATION WITH USERS
Landslide hazard assessment and management requires
synergies of communication between operational
and scientific users.
Information needs of operational users are:
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Landslide susceptibility maps
Landslide inventories
Long-term monitoring of areas at higher risk
Post-event motion and damage assessment
Landslide vulnerability assessment
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10. USERS AND NEEDS
Operational Users
 Products, tools and strategies for the
landslides disaster cycle
I. CPAs
II. Organizations that
 Similar to CPAs, but focus on managing
manage transportation
expectations of probabilities of landslides
networks
intersecting different types of transportation
networks.
III. Environmental,
agricultural and
forestry agencies
 Similar to CPAs, but focus on mapping and
assessing landslide probability, and impact
on blocked roads and rivers, including
contribution of landslides to sediment
changes in the system.
IV. Policy and decision  Standards and procedures for landslide
makers
hazard evaluation
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11. USERS AND NEEDS
Scientific Users
 Scientific knowledge advancements on
landslide phenomena.
V. Scientists
Other Users
VI. Citizens
 Awareness on the basics of landslides
events (where, when and to what extent the
ground may become unstable) and
procedures to follow if a landslide occurs.
VII. Geo-Spatial
Companies
 Products and tools combining and
integrating multiple types of data,
information and technologies for landslide
susceptibility and vulnerability modelling.
VIII. Non Geo-Spatial
companies
 Landslide hazard evaluation and risk
reduction in the areas they are operate.
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12. APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION
Based on five pillars:
1. Operational users need to be made aware
that GMES services:
• have the potential to improve their response
capacity to assess landslide hazard and mitigate
risk;
• can be easily integrated into their operational
processes.
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13. APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION
2. The focus of communication has to shift from
technology to the cost-benefit advantages and
public benefits of using GMES services:
 cost reductions and efficiency gains in risk
preparedness, mitigation, recovery and
reconstruction activities
 new business applications and job creation
 reduced loss of life caused by natural hazards
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14. APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION
3. Users need more facts on specific measures
and incentives for the adoption of GMES
services:
 Collaborative business models and market
mechanisms to facilitate market entry for new
collaborative services, and to generate
economies of scale;
 Best practices of cooperation and integration
between GMES services;
 Best practices of cooperation between CPAs
 Funding programs to facilitate collaboration at
different levels and products/service take-up
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15. APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION
4. Enhance European citizens’ involvement in
innovative user applications such as:
 Citizens observatories based on crowdsourcing
which allows voluntary geographic information
 Cloud-computing hubs exploiting open data and
applications
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16. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
Dissemination
levels
Users
Method/Channels
Events/Timeline
Awareness &
Education
I - VIII
-Brochures and leaflets
Newsletters/social/video
-FAQ and website
activities
-Presentations
-External conferences
(m. 1-24)
Understanding &
Knowledge
I - VIII
Commitment &
Uptake
I - IV
-Website activities
(video)
-Forum on website
-Publications (papers,
posters and
presentations)
-Deliverables
-External conferences
(m. 1-24)
-LAMPRE events:
- SUG Workshops
(m.18 m. 23)
- Final conference
(m.24)
Exploitation
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17. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
Four Dissemination Tasks
9.1 Web-site based activities
9.2 – Scientific publications and
participation in conferences
9.3 - Dissemination activities for
the Stakeholders and Users
Group (SUG)
9.4 – Public outreach and
education
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18. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
1
4
Features
1. Self-explanatory navigation
2. Visual
3. Jargon-free language
4. Responsive
3
2
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19. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
A Stakeholders and Users Group is being created to:
assess user needs;
advise on products & services specifications
during their development;
assess procedures & criteria regarding landslide
inventory maps and susceptibility models and
evaluate their applicability
evaluate the economic and technologic
sustainability of the prototype service,
contribute to deciding on appropriate take-up
activities
disseminate project results
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20. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
The SUG is provisionally comprised of individuals from (i)
CPAs in Europe, (ii) the Geological Surveys
of Italy, India, Israel, Spain and Taiwan, (iii) the Norwegian
Geotechnical Institute, (iv) the Taiwan Soil and Water
Conservation Bureau (SWCB), (v) the Istituto Italo – Latino
Americano (IILA), (vi) the European Space Agency (ESA),
(vii) the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and (viii) the
Emergency Response Core Services (ERCS).
SUG members fall into two groups
1: members with strong technical expertise
2: key stakeholder
Several members have already joined the SUG.
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21. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
9.3 - Dissemination activities for the SUG
Two workshops involving the SUG
 at mid-project to evaluate the interim project
results and provide feedback on products and
services
 at the end of the project to provide final
recommendations on take-up activities
A final conference on LAMPRE cooperation
with GMES projects will be organized
involving SUG and GEO members etc.
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22. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
Public outreach and education
 General Public (Citizens) interested in acquiring general
knowledge about landslide events
 High-school and university students interested in
acquiring a deeper understanding of landslide
phenomena.
Outcomes
 Brochures using non-scientific language on specific
themes (e.g., “what is a landslide event”, “remote
sensing of landslides”, “how landslide event inventory
maps are prepared”);
 Dedicated LAMPRE web pages to basic information
available on landslides and FAQ;
 Master-classes on landslides.
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23. CONTRIBUTION TO SUPERSITES
LAMPRE increases the operational capacity of GMES
services to cope with landslides caused by different triggers.
 Floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides
can occur simultaneously, or one or more of these hazards
can trigger one or more .
 LAMPRE techniques, products and services can be used
by other GMES projects dealing with volcanic and
earthquake hazards.
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24. CONTRIBUTION TO SUPERSITES
Creation of thematic or regional R&D clusters
based on the adoption of LAMPRE products and
other GMES (now Copernicus) downstream
services for Emergency Response
Management:
 New collaborative projects within the
Supersites Initiative
 LAMPRE data, products and tools as “addons” to Supersites projects
LAMPRE website will dedicate a section to
clustering and collaboration activities
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25. QUESTIONS
Thank you
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