Jürgen Moßgraber

Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB | IOSB · Department of Information Management and Production Control (ILT)

Crisis management is a challenging and interdisciplinary task in which various information must be acquired and fused. In Germany, Civil Crisis Management is usually organized into two parts: the organizational‐administrative division and the operative‐tactical division, which are subordinate to the authorities (political) leadership. To organize a...

The crisis management cycle contains the step Preparedness, in which the development of disaster plans takes place. Run plans for fire fighters are a well-established means for enhancing preparedness in public buildings. A wide array of plans is available, serving to aid firefighters in swiftly orienting themselves during emergency situations on-si...

Protecting and preserving cultural heritage (CH) in view of global climate change is the main objective of the KERES project. For managing climate impact with proper measurements, including prevention and responsive actions, an ontology has been devised in the course of this project in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders of selected CH ass...

According to the final report of the European Union OMC expert group on strengthening cultural heritage resilience for anthropogenic climate change, the impacts of climate change, particularly extreme weather events, on cultural heritage in Europe have become increasingly evident in recent years and are progressing at an unprecedented speed and sca...

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications are being used more and more frequently. Data collected by various sensors can be used to provide innovative digital services supporting increasing efficiency or cost reduction. The implementation of such applications requires the integration and analysis of heterogeneous data coming from a broad va...

Recently, the usage of triplestores has increased in complex computer systems. Traditionally, they are used for representing static knowledge. In the last years, systems started using semantic triplestores in highly dynamic scenarios, e.g., in the context of civil protection. In these use cases, performance characteristics are more and more importa...

In many application domains sensor data contributes an important part to the situation awareness required for decision making. Examples range from environmental and climate change situations to industrial production processes. All these fields need to aggregate and fuse many data sources, the semantics of the data needs to be understood and the res...

Abstract—Environmental factors, worsened by the increasing climate change impact, represent significant threats to European Cultural Heritage (CH) assets. In Europe, the huge number and diversity of CH assets, together with the different climatological sub-regions aspects, as well as the different adaptation policies to climate change adopted (or t...

Ziel des Forschungsprojekts „Mehr Sicherheit im Fußball – Verbessern der Kommunikationsstrukturen und Optimieren des Fandialogs“ (SiKomFan) war die Verbesserung der Kommunikation aller Beteiligten eines Fußball-Events. Dadurch ergab sich für das Arbeitspaket Kommunikationstechnik (AP04) als Aufgabe die Erstellung einer Kommunikationsplattform, die...

In crisis management, it is crucial to have up-to-date data available to assess an ongoing situation correctly. This information originates from different sources, such as human observations, various sensors or simulation algorithms with heterogeneous geographic scope. The aggregation of such data is conducted by decision support systems to disburd...

In a natural disaster situation, it is crucial to orchestrate an efficient response, which prevents, or - at least - mitigates damages. Based on the assumption, that a well-informed decision maker can make the best decisions, s/he should have access to all available information. Thus, employing both internal and external data empowers decision make...

In every emergency, getting up-to-date information about the current situation is crucial to orchestrate an efficient response. Since the Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing with an estimated number of 30 billion sensor in 2020, it offers excellent potential to collect information and to improve situational awareness. Yet, the IoT brings se...

For emergency management agencies, information retrieval is of particular importance since it is crucial for decision-making and the gain of situational awareness during a crisis. Many different data sources are available for the usage in the context of crisis management like for example weather forecasts, sensor data, historical context informatio...

Understanding the current situation is critical in every natural disaster or crisis. Therefore, there is a need for accurate and up-to-date information about the scope, extent and impact of a disaster. The basis for this information is data that is available through a variety of sensors. Decision Support Systems (DSSs) support decision makers in di...

We propose a mobile application facilitating an ontology to support all participants of a climate-related crises. Semantic classification is achieved by involving the user and without requiring semantic analysis tools. Participants in the field can share and exchange information with the control centre. Using multimodal input and potent analysis mo...

During climate-related crises vast volumes of heterogeneous multimodal information are generated. Meaningfully processing and communicating this information for efficient decision support is a key challenge. The paper describes applying Semantic Web technologies for decision support during such crises. We are proposing the application of these tech...

Cultural Heritage (CH) (In the context of this paper, we consider cultural heritage built tangible cultural heritage, such as buildings or monuments.) is an important source of identity for humankind and needs to be conserved for future generations. Climate change (CC) will morph the environmental landscape, thus leading to climate stress imposed o...

Environmental factors, worsened by the increasing climate change impact, represent significant threats to European Cultural Heritage (CH) assets. In Europe, the huge number and diversity of CH assets, together with the different climatological sub-regions aspects, as well as the different adaptation policies to climate change adopted (or to be adop...

Climate conditions are expected to change worldwide. This includes an increase in intensity and frequency of (among others) extreme weather events. As a result, flooding, droughts, fires, etc. will become more common in the future. No matter the cause and kind, all major disasters require an immediate, comprehensive, and professional response. Majo...

In every disaster time is the enemy and getting accurate and helpful real-time information for supporting decision support is critical. Data sources for Risk Management Platforms are heterogeneous. This includes data coming from several resources: sensors, social media, the general public and first responders. All this data needs to be analyzed, ag...

Cultural Heritage (CH) assets are endangered by climate change (CC) and natural hazards. In Europe, their huge number and diversity, together with the different climatic sub-regions generate a complex scenario. Experts from many domains need to cooperate towards their conservation goals. Same scientific and technological terms with clear relationsh...

Almost 400 UNESCO cultural heritage (CH) sites are located in Europe in different Climatic European Regions. Environmental factors, worsened by the increasing climate change impact, represent significant threats to CH assets as monuments, historic structures and archaeological sites. An information and communication platform able to provide a timel...

that attract millions of tourists every year. The UNESCO sites in Europe are almost 400, located in different Climatic European Regions. This incalculable value and global assets have to be preserved for future generations. Environmental factors, worsened by the increasing climate change impact, represent significant threats to Cultural Heritage (C...

One of the most critical challenges faced by authorities during the management of a climate-related crisis is the overwhelming flow of heterogeneous information coming from humans and deployed sensors (e.g. cameras, temperature measurements, etc.), which has to be processed in order to filter meaningful items and provide crisis decision support. To...

In every disaster and crisis, incident time is the enemy, and getting accurate information about the scope, extent, and impact of the disaster is critical to creating and orchestrating an effective disaster response and recovery effort. Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for disaster and crisis situations need to solve the problem of facilitating the...

Understanding the current situation is critical in every natural disaster or crisis. Therefore, there is a need for accurate and up-to-date information about the scope, extent and impact of a disaster. The basis for this information is data that is available through a variety of sensors. Decision Support Systems (DSSs) support decision makers in di...

The security of drinking water is increasingly recognized as a major challenge for municipalities and water utilities. The safety and or security of drinking water can be threatened by natural disasters, accidents or malevolent attacks. The European FP7 project SAFEWATER (10/2013 - 12/2016) developed a comprehensive event detection and event manage...

Main Objective: HERACLES designs, validates and promotes responsive systems/solutions for effective resilience of Cultural Heritage (CH) against climate change effects. Modelling of the domain: • The central element in the ontology are the CH assets that need to be protected against effects produced by climate change. They are a subclass of CH. • P...

Frühwarnsysteme dienen zur möglichst frühzeitigen Information über eine sich anbahnende oder auftretende Gefahr, um Personen und Organisationen die Möglichkeit zu geben entsprechend darauf reagieren zu können. Die Konzeption eines Frühwarnsystems stellt komplexe Herausforderungen an die Systemarchitekten, hierzu liefert die vorliegende Arbeit ein R...

The security of drinking water is increasingly being recognized as a major challenge for municipalities and water utilities. In the event of a contamination, water spreads rapidly before the problem is detected. Contaminated drinking water can induce major epidemics, disrupt economic life and create mass panics. SAFEWATER is an EU-funded project th...

The security of drinking water supply is increasingly recognized as a major challenge for municipalities and water utilities. The safety and security of drinking water supply can be threatened by natural disasters, accidents or malevolent 10 attacks. The European FP7 project SAFEWATER aims at developing a comprehensive event detection and event man...

Football is the most famous sport in Germany. Therefore, football matches itself and incidents around the organization of football events are main topics in the media. The stakeholders involved in the organization (‘Organizers Group’) of football events like clubs, public transportation services, police authorities, private security services and to...

Advanced reporting obligations and stricter legal regulations increase the require-ments on modern environmental information systems. Specialized applications have to support new ways of analysis and representation of the collected data in order to gain new insights. The article presents the thematic application for groundwater management in Baden-...

The security of drinking water is increasingly being recognized as a major challenge for municipalities and water utilities. In the event of a contamination, water spreads rapidly before the problem is detected. Contaminated drinking water can induce major epidemics, disrupt economic life and create mass panics. SAFEWATER is an EU-funded project th...

The safety and or security of drinking water can be threatened by natural disasters, accidents or malevolent attacks. The European FP7 project SAFEWATER aims at developing a comprehensive event detection and event management solution for drinking water security management and mitigation against major deliberate, accidental or natural CBRN related c...

Each weekend, about 3000 federal police officers and additional forces of the state polices secure the fan traffic to and from the stadiums. Sometimes, small groups among the fans are violent and cause dangerous situations for fans and travellers. It is the first obligation of the security forces to detect violent acts and to withdraw offenders. Ho...

The security of drinking water is increasingly recognized as a major challenge for municipalities and water utilities. The safety and or security of drinking water can be threatened by natural disasters, accidents or malevolent attacks. In the event of a contamination water spreads rapidly and hence extensively before the problem is detected. Conta...

Safety and security in football events has been a heavily debated topic in the media for years. Especially communication processes between the police authorities, private security services, town councils, supporters and other spectators have often been neglected. Communication processes in the context of football matches can encounter technical lim...

Environmental and meteorological conditions are of utmost importance for the population, as they are strongly related to the quality of life. Citizens are increasingly aware of this importance. This awareness results in an increasing demand for environmental information tailored to their specific needs and background. We present an environmental in...

Safety and security at football events has been a heavily debated topic in the media for years. Research in this field, however, so far mostly concentrated on single locations or separate stakeholders. Especially communication processes between the police authorities, private security services, town councils, supporters and other spectators have of...

In this article, the video-surveillance system NEST is presented. The architecture is described in detail and the main benefits are highlighted. We especially address the integration of privacy-by-design principles by usage control capabilities. Due to the flexible architecture, the system can be adapted to special operation tasks. We will present...

Large amounts of environmental data are still hidden away in databases only accessible by domain experts. There is the need to make this data available to other experts for further data fusion. To implement standards like the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) huge efforts on the side of environmental agencies are required. At the same time, the pres...

Many kinds of environmental data are nowadays publicly available, but spread over the web. This paper discusses using the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a common interface for providing data from heterogeneous sources which can be integrated to a user tailored environmental information system. I...

The management of heterogeneous sensor networks is a complex task. Moreover, such networks often form an isolated system that needs to be connected to other network systems. Therefore, a system-of-systems approach is required. A sensor registry is the central part of a distributed sensor network. In this paper, we describe how to enhance sensor reg...

The TRIDEC project (Collaborative, Complex, and Critical Decision Processes in Evolving Crises) focuses on real-time intelligent information management in the Earth management domain and its long-term applications. It is funded under the European Union's seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The TRIDEC software framework is applied in two application...

In this paper, we describe the work on the system architecture that is being developed in the EU FP7 project TRIDEC on "Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises". One of the two decision support use cases in the project deals with Tsunami Early Warning. A modern warning system that follows a system-of-systems approach...

The presentation will describe work on the system-of-systems (SoS) architecture that is being developed in the EU FP7 project TRIDEC on "Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises". In this project we deal with two use-cases: Natural Crisis Management (e.g. Tsunami Early Warning) and Industrial Subsurface Development (e...

The TRIDEC system-of-systems establishes collaborative, large-scale concurrent and intelligent information management of natural crises focusing on the integration of task-oriented and proprietary systems, cooperatively interacting as a collective in an environment of heterogeneous and geographically distributed systems. Following the principles of...

Environmental data analysis and information provision are considered of great importance for people, since environmental conditions are strongly related to health issues and directly affect a variety of everyday activities. Nowadays, there are several free web-based services that provide environmental information in several formats with map images...

Extraction and analysis of environmental information is very important, since it strongly affects everyday life. Nowadays there are already many free services providing environmental information in several formats including multimedia (e.g. map images). Although such presentation formats might be very informative for humans, they complicate the aut...

Environmental and meteorological conditions are of utmost importance for the population, as they are strongly related to the quality of life. Citizens are increasingly aware of this importance. This awareness results in an increasing demand for environmental information tailored to their specific needs and background. We present an environmental in...

Analysis of environmental information is considered of utmost importance for humans, since environmental conditions are strongly related to health issues and to a variety of everyday activities. Despite the fact that there are already many free on-line services providing environmental information, there are several cases, in which the presentation...

An increasing number of information systems integrate semantic data stores for managing ontologies. To access these knowledge bases most of the available implementations provide application programming interfaces (APIs). The implementations of these APIs normally do not support any kind of network protocol or service interface. This works fine as l...

An increasing number of information systems integrate semantic data stores for managing ontologies. To access these knowledge bases most of the available implementations provide application programming interfaces (APIs). The implementations of these APIs normally do not support any kind of network protocol or service interface. This works fine as l...

Natural Language Generation (NLG) from knowledge bases (KBs) has repeatedly been subject of research. Howev-er, most proposals tend to have in common that they start from KBs of limited size that either already contain lin-guistically-oriented knowledge structures or to whose structures different ways of realization are explicitly assigned. To avoi...

Citizens are increasingly aware of the influence of environmental and meteorological conditions on the quality of their life. This results in an increasing demand for personalized environmental information, i.e., information that is tailored to citizens’ specific context and background. In this demonstration, we present an environmental information...

The EU FP7 TRIDEC project focuses on enabling real-time, intelligent, information management of collaborative, complex, critical decision processes for earth management. A key challenge is to promote a communication infrastructure to facilitate interoperable environment information services during environment events and crises such as tsunamis and...

The presentation will describe work on the system architecture that is being developed in the EU FP7 project TRIDEC on “Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises”. The challenges for a Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS) are manifold and the success of a system depends crucially on the system’s architecture. A modern w...

Citizens are increasingly aware of the influence of environmental and meteorological conditions on the quality of their life. This results in an increasing demand for personalized environmental information, i.e., information that is tailored to citizens’ specific context and background. In this work we describe the development of an environmental i...

Due to the increasing threat posed by crime, industrial espionage and even terrorism, video surveillance systems have become more important and powerful during the last years. While most commercially available surveillance systems have to be managed by human operators, who constantly monitor all video streams, several experimental systems from diff...

Citizens are increasingly aware of the influence of environmental and meteorological conditions on the quality of their life. The consequence of this awareness is the demand for personalized environmental information, i.e., information that is tailored to their specific context and background. The EU-funded project PESCaDO addresses this demand in...

Due to the increasing public crime, industrial espionage and terrorism the need for advanced surveillance technology for prevention and criminal investigation increases more and more. Today's surveillance systems mainly focus on passive monitoring and video storage with human operators facing a large number of monitors, over a long period of time a...

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