POPIMPACT - A1 Action Preparation Phase

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1 Contact to relevant stakeholders

stakeholder	Project	Contacts
IHCantabria	IHCantabria is a joint research institute that emerged thanks to the collaboration between two institutions: the Universidad de Cantabria and the Government of Cantabria, represented through the Foundation for the Institute of Environmental Hydraulics of Cantabria.	César Álvarez, Felipe Fernández,Eduardo García,Sheila Abad

2 Contact to relevant data providers

stakeholder	Project	Contacts
Joint Research Centre - JRC.E1	Disaster Risk Management Unit	KEMPER Thomas, FLORIO Pietro, FREIRE Sergio
Joint Research Centre - ISPRA	synthetic population analysis	HRADEC Jiri, DI LEO Margherita

3 Relevant stakeholders engaged

The following points are detailed as feedback:

• Stakeholders are very interested in the results of the POPIMPACT use case, highlighting the importance of knowing the affected population in a flood calculation.

• IHC is of the opinion that the POPIMPACT service is very relevant especially for planning or acting in case of emergencies.

• IHC underlines that the data is a service that can be consumed on demand and on a global scale.

• The IHC is interested in the format of the POPIMPACT results, as they use raster population in their analysis.

• Stakeholders point out the importance of the type of buildings in their analysis (whether it is a shack, ground floor, multi-storey, etc.), because they use it, for example, to identify slums. They also use it to calculate how much of the actual population is affected in a flood, considering that only the ground floor is affected and not the whole building.

• Stakeholder find interesting to have a real-time service, with forecasts created from historical records. To be able to calculate the floating population or population mobility for risk studies.

4 Relevant data providers engaged

• JRC emphasizes that knowing the population in buildings is very relevant especially for planning purposes or in case of emergency. JRC agreed with the approach we had taken assuming heterogeneity of sources, however that synthetic data even if it implies that it is worse, is the way to be able to generate examples of applications that force data to be published.

• The JRC sees interest in having a population enquiry service at building level but points out that in order to be able to work a priori it is necessary to have the datasets ready. It is therefore important to have the services and datasets in place. JRC states that if the datasets were available for the whole of Europe, they would be the first user as an indispensable basis for the generation of synthetic data.