RASOR and DRIHM platform combine to support modelling of the impact caused by Hurricane Matthew in the western part of Haiti.
The DRIHM platform was able to simulate the wind pattern from the Hurricane using Hi-res WRF Meteorological modelling simulation. The WRF model was run, using Grid and super computing computational resources that are easily accessible through the DRIHM portal. Wind fields, served in standardized format (NETCDF-CF) are then easily imported into the RASOR platform that allows to compute the impact caused by the wind gusts. Exposure was extracted from the Copernicus activation products and further characterised in the RASOR platform to be used for Vulnerability assessment.
The impact was computed for the different hit sites in Haiti. RASOR also allows the user to transform categorical damage available from EO analysis (in this case provided by Copernicus EMS) into economica damage. This allowed the comparison between the “observed” and “modelled” damage in Haiti.
For the western part of Haiti the match between the model estimate and the one derived from observation stays within 20 percent. This is an indication that the DRIHM-RASOR modelling framework can provide with 3 days lead time a reasonable estimate of damage that can be used in a preparedness framework.

RASOR Project will presented in a information Workshop next Thursday (9th June 2016) to the European Commission DGs and Programmes. The event will be held at Centre Borschette building (CCAB) – Room AB/3.04, with the aim to showcase the project outputs and the possible interest from the various DGs in the platform applications to support their actions and activities.

RASOR Contributions will be presented in a PICO (http://egu2016.eu/pico.html) session at EGU 2016 in Vien (22nd of April).
NH6.2 Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk studies supported by EO Data. Natural Hazards and Cultural Heritage: from satellite monitoring to hazard assessment, mitigation measures and management policies.

Conveners: Roberto Rudari , Daniele Spizzichino
Co-Conveners: Fifame Koudogbo , Alanna Leigh Simpson , Claudio Margottini
PICO / Fri, 22 Apr, 10:30–12:00 / PICO spot 2
Risk is materialising more and more following more complex and interconnected pathways due to different reasons: Climate Change, increased population density, increased social interconnection and fragility. In that way, fatalities and economic losses due to natural disasters have increased during the last years, not only due to the former reasons but also to the consequent concatenation of possible series of cascade events. As a specific situation of exposed elements, Cultural Heritage (CH) represents the identity of a given territory in a specific time. Natural Hazards and geomorphological process played a fundamental role for their build and conservation. In order to understand safety, stability and conservation conditions, one of the main pillars is provided by the monitoring, analysis, assessment and management. The assessment and mitigation of the impact of natural hazards and their connectivity is a very important scope of analysis. It is necessary to develop new studies to quantify the risks and the relationship between different hazards affecting a given area in order to understand their connections and to provide a better evaluation of the susceptibility and the vulnerability. Understanding risk in a holistic sense and with the help of new technologies is becoming a global priority in order to increase social resilience. The most advanced hazard and risk assessment model, low impact monitoring techniques and the

On the 2nd of March DPC (our Main Italian Supporting Partner) hosted the RASOR italian Validation Mission. the RASOR platform was presented and tested in front of people coming from the different offices and department of DPC and a numerous delegation of INGV that was not yet exposed to the RASOR Platform. the discussion on the use of RASOR for multi-hazard scenarios evaluation was lively and produced interesting outcomes and suggestions that will be taken into account for the final release of the Platform.

The RASOR team just concluded a very successful validation mission in Jakarta, Indonesia. The mission included a Validation session at BNPB on February 2nd hosted at BNPB headquarter, in collaboration with the Indonesia National Platform for Disaster Reduction/PLANAS, and a related one-day event at ITB in Bandung on February 4th, in collaboration with the Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL) initiative.
On the 3rd of February BPBD Jakarta hosted a second validation session.
All validation session concluded successfully.