Supporting Partners
The RASOR consortium is composed of 10 leading institutions from both the EO community, the DRR community and the ICT community with supportive contributions from CIMH (CARICOM), UWI (CARICOM), RCWC (Indonesia), DMEI (The Netherlands), Munich-Re (Germany), DPC (Italy), ARPA-SIMC (Italy), UNOSAT (IO), WB/GFDRR (IO), NASA (USA), ASI (Italy), RMS (UK), GEO Secretariat (IO), CEOS Disaster SBA Chair (IO), EARCS (Belgium), GEM (IO), UNISDR (IO) on an unfunded basis.
These unfunded contributions are however critical, as they support the definition of User Requirements, Data access to satellite repositories and in situ data and results evaluation. Specifically CIMH, UWI, RCWC, DMEI, DPC, ARPA-SIMC, and the General Secretariat of Civil Protection in Greece will collaborate to make the pilot implementations a success providing contributions that will be paid by other existing projects with complementary intents in these areas where one or more of the RASOR partners is actively involved, pursuing in this way the synergy of this project with other ongoing projects.
UNOSAT, WB and UNISDR will provide, with different level of commitment, unique insight on User Needs at global level for Prevention, Emergency management and reconstruction ad will help mainstream RASOR as a complementary contributions to other international initiatives in the field of DRR. NASA Pilots, CEOS and GEO will provide support for data access and contact with similar initiatives present Worldwide. Munich-Re and RMS will provide insight in to the Insurance and re- Insurance market form different perspective, being the first the leading re-insurance player in Natural Disasters worldwide and the second the leading catastrophic modeling company around the world.
GEM will provide outreach to a top-of-the-class network of private and public potential users of RASOR. EARCS will facilitate the outreach to SME in the EO business.
