Angeluccetti, Irene

Balbo, Simone

Disabato, Franca

Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia

Kiranoudis, Chris T.

Mazzoglio, Paola

Perez, Francesca

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Irene Angeluccetti

Franca Disabato

Francesca Perez

Simone Balbo

MAZZOGLIO, PAOLA

Iphigenia Keramitsoglou

Chris T. Kiranoudis

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05 August 2020POLITECNICO DI TORINORepository ISTITUZIONALETRIBUTE ‘TRIgger BUffers for inundaTion Events’: the importance of flood hazard and vulnerability assessment /Angeluccetti, Irene; Disabato, Franca; Perez, Francesca; Balbo, Simone; Mazzoglio, Paola; Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia;Kiranoudis, Chris T.. - In: GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH ABSTRACTS. - ISSN 1607-7962. - ELETTRONICO. - 20(2018),pp. 6497-6497. ((Intervento presentato al convegno EGU General Assembly 2018 tenutosi a Vienna, Austria nel 8-13April 2018.OriginalTRIBUTE ‘TRIgger BUffers for inundaTion Events’: the importance of flood hazard and vulnerabilityassessmentPublisher:PublishedDOI:Terms of use:openAccessPublisher copyright(Article begins on next page)This article is made available under terms and conditions as specified in the  corresponding bibliographic description inthe repositoryAvailability:This version is available at: 11583/2775598 since: 2019-12-21T14:24:47ZCopernicus GmbHGeophysical Research AbstractsVol. 20, EGU2018-6497, 2018EGU General Assembly 2018© Author(s) 2018. CC Attribution 4.0 license.TRIBUTE ‘TRIgger BUffers for inundaTion Events’: the importance offlood hazard and vulnerability assessmentIrene Angeluccetti (1), Franca Disabato (1), Francesca Perez (1), Simone Balbo (1), Paola Mazzoglio (1),Iphigenia Keramitsoglou (2), Chris T. Kiranoudis (2,3)(1) ITHACA - Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action, Torino, Italy, (2) Institute forAstronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece, (3)School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, GreeceThe recent socioeconomic and environmental impacts of extreme flood events occurred in Europe are testimonyto the disastrous consequences that such future hazards are likely to pose. Managing inundation risk requiresprevention measures in close cooperation with Civil Protection authorities. This topic underlies the TRIBUTE(TRIgger BUffers for inundaTion Events) project (ECHO/SUB/2016/742480/PREV08), whose aim is to helpEurope-wide national, regional and local CP authorities answer the following vital question in case of flooding:“Should I initiate an evacuation and how long do I have to evacuate safely?”.In the framework of the TRIBUTE project, the technique used for assessing the time that an evacuation shouldbe recommended is the so-called ‘trigger buffer’. An evacuation trigger buffer is a pre-established boundarythat circumscribes an area in such a way that when floodwaters coming from any direction cross the buffer, anevacuation is recommended. The final aim of the project will be to develop a web service and a mobile applicationallowing users to select desired sensible points and know related trigger buffers during a specific inundation event.The service will have pan-European coverage.For this purpose, the developed model will be fed, among others, with current estimates of inundation hazardsfrom satellites and information on the vulnerability and coping capacity for the threatened site.Two different activities are of particular interest to these tasks: i) the assessment and mapping of inunda-tion vulnerability indicators for risk evaluation purposes in sensitive areas, and ii) the exploitation of satellitedatasets for real-time detection of extreme rainfall events in these areas. The way in which these issues have beenaddressed will be presented and discussed in this contribution. In particular, the updated version of ITHACA’s(www.ithacaweb.org) Extreme Rainfall Detection System (ERDS), a service for the monitoring of exceptionalrainfall events, with a nearly global geographic coverage, is presented. This system is able to analyze near real-timerainfall amount for different lead times, with the aim to deliver hourly extreme rainfall alerts. The system uses, asbase data, the GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) mission IMERG (Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals)products. Additionally, flood vulnerability maps showing the spatial distribution of flood-prone elements, withparticular attention to the population and the built environment, are produced using a simplified methodologybased on open datasets available at European scale. In the proposed methodology, the population density, thelocation of vulnerable points of interest, and proper indicators of the complexity and density of the transportationnetwork that fall within the identified trigger buffers are taken into consideration, and, finally, they are combinedto create a final vulnerability map with European coverage.

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