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Monitor|08 - Systems behind a safer environment
21st / 22nd February 2008, Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein (Styria, Austria)
Protection against natural disasters is an increasing challenge for society. In many areas the frequent occurrence of natural hazards like floods, landslides and forest fires as become a constant threat for the population and the environment.
The overall magnitude of damaging events in the last decade clearly shows the need for comprehensive and innovative risk management. It is absolutely necessary to implement control mechanisms for the protection of settlements, infrastructure and the natural environment. Appropriate monitoring methods for this purpose are indispensable...
Objective of the international conference "Monitor|08 -- Systems behind a safer environment" was to point out monitoring methods for different risk types, the interdisciplinary use of methods on transnational level as well as the combination of innovative methods and the implementation of correlating instruments (disaster preparedness, early warning systems, monitoring tools, simulation models).
On the first day, international representatives of the fields science, practice and policy presented, discussed and observed various Monitoring Methods against risks concerning endangered settlements, land-use areas and infrastructure.
Session I: Implementation of monitoring methods on trans-national scale
Comparison of the social, political and legal framework for monitoring hazards in Austria and in Switzerland
Austria: DI Maria Patek -- Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management; Head of the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control
Switzerland: Dr. sc.techn. Peter Greminger -- Federal Office for the Environment; Switzerland
Monitoring methods -- systems behind a safer environment
Dr. Alessandro Corsini -- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
Hazard mapping based on the new guideline in Slovenia
Univ.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franci Steinman -- University Ljubljana; Slovenia
Implementation of the "cost-benefit-analyses" in regional studies
DI Gerhard Volk, Mag. Renate Kocen -- GeoExpert Research and Planning; Austria
Indicators to evaluate endangered land use areas
Dr. Gerhard Markart, Mag. Klaus Klebinder -- Federal Forest Office; Austria
Session II: Technical background of hazard monitoring
Avalanche paths as monitoring sites for plant species richness and soil conditions -- viewpoint of nature protection and natural hazards
Dr. Andreas Bohner -- Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein; Austria
Weather information systems and application fields
Mag. Thomas Knabl, Mag. Lena Nilsson -- Meteomedia GmbH Austria
Methods for the protection of critical infrastructure
Bc Aneta Valouskova -- Section of Crisis Management and Defense, Region of South Moravia; Czech Republic
Rock fall monitoring
Mag. Michael Mölk -- Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control
Avalanche Radar "Multereck-avalanche Grimming"
DI Markus Mayerl -- Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control;
DI Klaus Lorentschitsch -- Graz University of Technology, Austria
Session III: Workshops
Workshop 1) How to put monitoring into practice; connections monitoring and land-use planning
Workshop 2) Complementing monitoring methods with simulation models
Workshop 3) Monitoring Methods for end-user
Within the following poster session, experts presented their experiences and know-how with different monitoring methods for various risk types to the audience.
During the overall conference, companies were able to demonstrate their monitoring instruments (hard- and software) on site at an accompanying exhibition.
Evening Programme:
Presentation of the region Donnersbach and the avalanche situation in February 2005
LAbg Bgm Karl Lackner, Mayor for Donnersbach, Member of the 'Landtag'
DI Markus Mayerl, Austrian Service of Torrent and Avalanche Control
The "Gschliefgraben" in Gmunden -- an example that the system of the Danger-Zone-Mapping is working
DI Wolfgang Gasperl, Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control
Impressions of the National Park Gesäuse, Test-bed of the EU-Project MONITOR
Excursion to the test-beds of the INTERREG IIIB Cadses Project MONITOR
On the second day an excursion led to different test-beds of the project partners.
First station was the massive Grimming Mountain, where the so-called "Multereck Avalanche" endangers an important traffic line, connecting Styria with Upper Austria and Salzburg.
In former times several avalanches came off the peak of the Multereck and caused serious destructions. On 16th February 1948 the Multereck Avalanche blocked up the Bundesstraße B145 (A-class-road). The snow covered a length of 100 metres of the road and was more than ten metres high. Another avalanche incident on 12th March 1988 blocked up the B145 with 200 metres. From this time on, an avalanche gallery should ensure protection.
However during the catastrophic winter in 1999 an avalanche backfilled the gravel pit, situated at the bottom of the Grimming. The earlier constructed avalanche gallery proved to be too short. Since the new construction of the B145, the extension of the avalanche gallery in 2007, and the extension of the gravel pit there is no more danger through wet-snow avalanches but a residual risk through powder avalanches still exists.
The installed warning system (= avalanche radar) simplifies to assess the danger and, if necessary, to stop the traffic by an automatic signal.
At the excursion the responsible offices, the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control and the Styrian Avalanche Commission, declared the functions of the radar.
Afterwards the participants went by a special train from Bad Aussee to Obertraun, through the impressive Koppen Valley, where the Austrian Federal Railways presented endangered areas and measures to reduce the hazards.
Ever since the railway line through the valley was constructed, it has been affected with natural hazards. As the tracks cross numerous torrential water sheds and gorges, mudflows and landslides as well as rock fall are potential hazards. However the most frequent problem are avalanches. The railway line was stricken by several avalanches in the past, causing considerable damage. It is of particular importance for the Austrian Railways to achieve maximum security and at the same time ensure the operation of trains.
Thus a constant monitoring of the slopes, with long-range laser scanners, is very important for the Railway Company. Furthermore special avalanche guards are used to observe the slopes and inform the responsible authorities in case of emergency.
At the end of the international conference the participants went by cable car at the Krippenstein.
Here the head of the section Upper Austria, of the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control presented the regional study Koppen and focal points concerning the protection against natural hazards in the region.
Through the MONITOR project not only practical experiences were shared with the partner countries but also methods and instruments as best-practice examples which are prospectively of significant importance at international and EU level for the protection of land use areas, settlements and infrastructure.
Further impressions of the international conference and the excursion
Conference-publication: "Monitoring Methods - Systems behind a safer environment"
(International publication, english, ISBN: 978-3-902559-19-7)
The publication contains several important information, presentations and results of the international Monitor|08 conference.
Keywords: Monitoring, natural hazards, risk management, risk assessment, early warning, alarm plan, critical infrastructure, weather forecast and information systems, land-use management, regional studies, hazard mapping, simulation models, avalanche radar, rock fall, range gating, laser scanning, EU flood directive
The conference publication is available for free at the
Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein,
Raumberg 38,
A-8952 Irdning,
Austria
Tel: +43 - (0) - 3682 - 22451 - 240
Fax: +43 - (0) - 3682 - 22451 - 210
Contact persons:
DI Renate Mayer; e-mail: renate.mayer@raumberg-gumpenstein.at
Claudia Plank; e-mail: claudia.plank@raumberg-gumpenstein.at
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