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TEMA Open Demo Days: Emergency Practitioners Invited to Test Advanced Crisis Management Technologies

Fri, 15/05/2026 - 16:30

Emergency management practitioners across Europe are invited to participate in the TEMA Open Demo Days, taking place from 25 May to 07 June 2026. Organised within the Horizon Europe-funded project TEMA (Trusted Extremely Precise Mapping and Prediction for Emergency Management), the initiative offers civil protection professionals, first responders and crisis management stakeholders the opportunity to access and test advanced decision-support technologies through realistic operational scenarios.

Beyond Europe’s Digital Infrastructure: How A European Service-Oriented Architecture Approach Can Ensure That Europe’s Digital Infrastructure Delivers

Thu, 11/12/2025 - 15:40

A deep dive into how a European service-oriented architecture approach can ensure that Europe’s digital infrastructure delivers

Transforming Natural Disaster Management with Big Data, AI, and Multi-Source Analysis

Thu, 06/11/2025 - 15:07

Big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and the integration of multiple and heterogeneous data sources are revolutionizing natural disaster management (NDM) by enhancing prediction, response, and recovery. Projects like the TEMA represent this transformation, leveraging advanced technologies to save lives and mitigate damage for civil protection.

clusters computed by our model for the 2021 Ahr Valley flood in Germany.

Improving Disaster Management with Multimodal Information from Social Media

Thu, 30/10/2025 - 10:00

When a natural disaster occurs, the situation on-site can be quite chaotic and overwhelming, making it hard to understand for emergency responders. To react effectively, a detailed understanding of the situation on the ground is required, as it determines where resources and manpower are deployed. After events such as floods or earthquakes, traditional methods of information gathering and transportation are often hindered, e.g. by physical barriers or overwhelmed call centres.

Seeing Beyond the Flames: Latitudo 40’s Vision for Climate-Resilient Communities

Wed, 15/10/2025 - 10:28

Every year, more people, infrastructures, and ecosystems are exposed to climate-driven hazards. Since its foundation in 2017, Latitudo 40, an Italian company at the forefront of Earth Observation (EO) for urban and environmental resilience, has been analysing these dynamics to help communities prepare for and respond to climate risks.

Study area of northwest Europe, encompassing the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, northern France, and northwest Germany within the northern Atlantic biogeographical region above the 49th parallel. Locations of the fire hotspot clusters generated from VIIRS 375 m active fire product, derived from 326,935 hotspot detections from January 2012 through June 2022.

Characterizing the rate of spread of large wildfires in emerging fire environments of northwestern Europe using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite active fire data

Mon, 15/09/2025 - 13:45

This article investigates how large wildfires propagate in northwestern Europe, a region historically considered temperate and low-risk but which in recent years has experienced unusually large and destructive fires.

Generated Image using the prompt: “A fire in a forest with rising smoke as seen from a drone”

Enhancing Disaster Image Datasets with Diffusion Models and Attention Maps

Tue, 10/06/2025 - 13:00

Article about diffusion models used to generate realistic synthetic images of natural disasters. These models are capable of producing diverse and high-fidelity scenes based on simple text prompts like "flooded neighbourhood" or "forest fire with smoke".

Forest on Fire. Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/forest-on-fire-51951/

Concept Activation Vectors from a Statistical Learning Perspective

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 10:00

Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) provide a quantitative framework for interpreting deep neural networks by measuring the sensitivity of model predictions to high-level, human-defined concepts.

Towards a Resilient Europe: Implementing the EU Preparedness Union Strategy for Climate Disasters

Wed, 07/05/2025 - 14:00

The EU Preparedness Union Strategy enhances civil protection through institutional preparedness, strategic reserves, and innovation. This article examines its climate focus, highlighting the TEMA project’s role in advancing situational awareness, predictive modelling, and cross-border coordination.

EmoGRACE: Advancing Emotion Analysis for Social Media Data

Wed, 07/05/2025 - 13:00

In the discipline of Natural Language Processing (NLP), sentiment analysis has evolved from basic polarity classification (positive vs. negative) of entire texts or sentences to more nuanced aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), which identifies sentiments related to specific terms or phrases within a text.

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