Advanced disaster damage and loss data information system for enHancEd impAct-baseD knowledge

Scira Menoni

AHEAD builds on prior efforts to deliver a fully engineered information system (IS) for collecting and analysing post disaster damage and loss data for Europe. The IS will permit to input geolocated data on damage to multiple sectors and to query the system to obtain data reporting and visualization for different purposes. The latter include accounting for the Sendai indicators, requests to the Solidarity Fund, compensation either by state or insurance, improvement of risk analysis, evidence based early warning, forensic investigation to support DRR and climate adaptation measures. With respect to prior efforts that will be included in the AHEAD system, and which cover already a number of sectors, the following will be the object of detailed data modelling and implementation as fields in the IS: damage to cultural heritage, waste and water systems, structural defences, and natural ecosystems. Stakeholders of the AHEAD hub will be invited first to co-create the relational data model and second to test the IS. IS Development and testing will occur in parallel: starting with the sectors for which fields of the database and the input interface are already available whilst developing the new ones. The testing will be done by stakeholders willing to use their own data and in the testbeds of the project. The latter will provide the data on recent events which the consortium have direct access to. The testbeds will complement the knowledge shared by stakeholders with empirical evidence from three real cases. Three main outcomes are expected: the integration of the fully engineered AHEAD IS, completed with the above-mentioned sectors in the Risk Data Hub of the JRC, and a list of requirements that can be used by developers of IS that are already in use by Member States and Regions. Finally, a kit for training on the advantages and the needs of post disaster damage data collection and reporting will be built to support administrations at different levels.