MONITOR: Hazard Monitoring for Risk Assessment and Risk Communication

Monitoring tools and appropriate simulation
procedures are indispensable when it
comes to providing vital information for risk
evaluation, successful risk management and
communication. New methods useful for
monitoring, like new remote sensing and high
resolution laserscan techniques, have been
developed in the past. The value of these
techniques can be calculated in theory but
practical experience is limited.
The main goal of the MONITOR (INTERREG
IIIB CADSES) project was the improvement
of the methodology of risk evaluation and
communication by applying these innovative
methods. The project partners represent
authorities dealing with hazard processes as
well as infrastructure and land-use experts.
Monitoring methods for the assessment of
natural hazards, differentiated by risk quality
and risk quantity as well as by differing
legislative and organisational environments,
were compared and evaluated.
The MONITOR project developed transnational,
harmonised, best-practise methods
for the implementation of monitoring on the
basis of criteria of cost, reliability, quality, re-
usability as well as applicability.