Project Summary

TREEADS, a large-scale EU Green Deal project, brings together a consortium of 46 partners from 13 European countries and Taiwan, in the fight against wildfires. TREEADS will increase the effectiveness of enhanced sustainable fire and forest management under changing climate conditions, by building upon state-of-the-art high TRL products and latest innovations in fields covering all three stages of fire management - namely fire prevention and preparedness, detection and response, restoration and adaptation - and uniting them under the umbrella of a holistic Fire Management Platform Ecosystem. TREEADS will capitalise on expert knowledge and EU initiatives, but also address the need for proactive governance, change of forest management practices, community-based awareness and preparedness activities, where local communities and bio-economy sectors will play a central role.

The TREEADS project will adopt a holistic forest fire management approach based on the deployment of a comprehensive forest fire management system covering all interconnected stages of prevention & preparedness, detection & response as well as restoration & adaptation. The overall architecture of the TREEADS project relies on a holistic view of forests. Furthermore, a cornerstone of the proposed architecture is the combination of highly divergent sources of data, originating either form the cyber field (social media, network activity) or from heterogeneous sensors in the physical field, aiming to extract vital information regarding the security of the aerial means and provide intime information, alerts and guidelines to responders, operators and users. The fundamental principle of the TREEADS project relies on the fact that early detection and timely risk assessment can allow prevention or mitigation of the consequences of catastrophic events.