Organization:
Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (Regional Agency)

Brief description of the Organization launching the Challenge:
The Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia is the official mapping agency for the government of Catalonia. With a staff of more than 250 technicians, it is in charge of providing key geoinformation, in terms of cartography, geodesy and geology, with special attention to generating products and services as decision support tools in front of risks and territorial challenges

Region:
Catalonia (Spain)

Description of the Challenge:
The transition area between forest and urban interfaces, the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), has become critical in the analysis of risk factors and the management of wildfire threats, and is one of the mandatory policies of the Catalan Government to establish surveillance methods for designing, defining, and monitoring policy implementation. Currently, a zone, henceforth referred to as the wild forest urban interface (WUI), is regulated within 25 meters of the urban limits and is expected to have low fuel loads.
A key challenge is how to develop productive methodologies suitable to analyse the morphology of the vegetation in the WUI, considering the first 25 meters, but adaptable to 50 or 100 m, as well as a set of different geoinformation outputs to configure a decision support tool for a policy implementation, to verify compliance and elaborate predictive models as key challenges on wildfire risk management. WUI becomes a critical infrastructure, as well as those related to mobility or water resources, when the role of Earth Observation data suits regional challenges in the new Artificial Intelligence scenario.

Your Challenge in just one question:
How can Earth Observation data provide decision support tools for the surveillance of critical infrastructures?

 Topics:

• Earth Observation (EO)
• AI & Data Analytics
• Natural Resources Management (Water, Soil, Forest...)
• Sustainable Mobility & Transport
• Precision Farming & Forestry
• Emergency & Disaster Management
• Civil Protection & Security
• Critical Infrastructures 

Expected role of Service Provider:

• R&D, Software & Tool Development
• Data Supply & Processing
• System Integration in the PA platforms
• Consultancy & Feasibility Study