RESITEK
iStock / MadamLead
Duration: 2024–2026
To cope with disasters, civil protection and disaster control need an accurate situational picture and effective communication channels. In the RESITEK project, DLR's Aeronautics, Space, Energy, Transport and Security departments are jointly developing tools and methods to monitor and assess such situations. These tools can be used both in the event of a disaster and preventively for resilience-enhancing measures.
RESITEK focuses on the following topics:
- Space weather: Potential impacts on people and energy infrastructure
- Resilience of power grids: Situation forecasting, protection and contingency planning
- Mobility in special situations: Relevance of electric vehicles for emergency power supply
- Remote guidance and mission planning: resource and communication planning
- Complex situation picture: Deriving relevant crisis information from aerial images
Together with the users – i.e. authorities and organizations with security tasks – we will design a real-time situation picture with interfaces to existing systems. During a live demonstration, we will show how the platform and various emergency vehicles work together.
The Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures examines various events, affected components of critical infrastructures and their failure probabilities. In particular, we are looking at two scenarios: Floods in rural areas and storms in urban areas. We focus on cascading effects, i.e. the consequences of direct damage, such as defects in electricity pylons or transformer stations. We investigate how these local failures influence the entire system and to what extent other infrastructures, such as surrounding hospitals, are affected. Together with regional and local operators of critical infrastructures, we determine the resilience of the individual infrastructures and deduce how their interaction affects the supply to the population in the event of a power outage.
PROJECT | RESITEK |
|---|---|
Duration | 2024–2026 |
Objective | Development of tools for effective disaster prevention and crisis management |
Contact
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Lichte