August 1, 2006, to January 31, 2009
Executive summary
In the INDUS project, a new temporally resolved, internationally scalable severe weather and ca- tastrophe warning system was developed, enabling meteorologists to individually specify weather information.
INDUS – as a holistic severe weather and disaster information system – dealt with meteorological input regarding severe weather warnings, management, and distribution of these warnings to end users, in particular.
UBIMET developed a powerful and highly individual logistic engine in cooperation with Fraunhofer ISST. This specific engine allows warnings to be simultaneously sent via text message and e-mail to several thousand recipients in a variety of languages. INDUS can be used in both Middle Europe and Central Eastern Europe.
UBIMET’s role in this project involved further development of existing prediction methods and new methods for the forecast of storm trajectories.
Project partners
- Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Software Engineering (now FOKUS), Department of Location-based Services
- VRVis Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization Research GmbH
Project funding
The project was cofinanced by the Safe & Secure Vienna program, ZIT – Center for Innovation and Technology of the City of Vienna
Awards
INDUS was the winner of the Safe & Secure Vienna 2006 project-funding petition of ZIT in the area of research and development.
More information at: rnd@ubimet.com
