The European Geosciences Union (or EGU) is an interdisciplinary non-profit learned society open to individuals who are professionally engaged in or associated with geosciences, planetary and space sciences, and related studies.

This is a Call for Particpation in the session

NH5.7/ESSI1.7 "Architecture of Future Tsunami Warning Systems"

at the annual General Assembly in Vienna, April 22-27 2012.

The session addresses main achievements of and future challenges for the architecture of tsunami warning systems and is supported by the EU FP7 project TRIDEC.You are kindly invited to participate and to submit an abstract.

Relevant topics of the session include but are not limited to:
- Integration of heterogeneous sensor systems, e.g. seismic systems, tide gauges, or tsunami buoys
- Application of unconventional sensors for situation assessment and damage estimation, e.g. blogs, smartphone apps, and low cost mobile airborne sensors
- Process design of standard operational procedures in warning centres
- Integration of simulation systems for forecasting of tsunami wave propagation as well as systematic testing of warning systems
- Message-based coordination of activities of warning centres in a system-of-systems environment, e.g. based on the Common Alerting Protocol (OASIS)
- Concepts of and best practices for the operation of complex multinational warning systems, e.g. utilisation of service level agreements (SLA) and IT Infrastructure Library procedures (ITIL).

Session link: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9593
Deadline: 17 January 2012
(http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/deadlines_and_milestones.html)