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The Project is co-funded
by the GSA
(GJU/06/2423/
CTR/POP-ART)

Background of the POP-ART Project

The increasing number of mountaineers leads the interventions by the rescue teams rapidly growing up. The POP-ART project realizes a prototype of an automatic and centralized system with the aim of monitoring and coordinating in real-time the rescue teams resources in hostile environments. The major requirements have been obtained thanks to the collaboration with the Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Piemontese.
The consortium shows a strong background in the field of navigation algorithms and strategies as well as navigation-related applications. The main goal is to integrate this knowledge in a Local Element architecture able to receive raw data and to compute a very precise position employing EGNOS SIS. The overall system provides specific location-based services exploiting the existing VHF infrastructure on secure and certified frequencies as well as the GPRS network where available.

Increasing safety and management of mountain rescue teams:
POP-ART optimizes the rescue operations through a real-time coordination of the rescuers in critical environments. Specific location-based services will be available at the operation management level and at each terminal. POP-ART uses the available VHF infrastructure assuring the whole coverage of the alpine area.

POP-ART Project Time Schedule:
The project kick-off was in March 2006. The duration of the whole project will be 12 months.

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