Vasile Crăciunescu
Vasile Craciunescu is a researcher with more than 24 years experience, working for the Romanian National Meteorological Administration and Terrasigna, being in charge with the scientific and operational activities related to GIS database design and implementation, deployment of standardized web services, spatial enabled web interfaces, ETL, EO data processing, project management. He received his diploma in cartography and physical geography in 2001. He has a good experience in working and leading national, EU and ESA research projects. In 2006 Vasile started geo-spatial.org (http://geo-spatial.org), a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. Since 2011 he is the Romanian delegate in the Copernicus User Forum at the European Commission and the technical representative of Meteo Romania at Open Geospatial Consortium. In August 2014 he was elected to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation board of directors. For the last 14 years he has been teaching FOSS4G-based techniques at the Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest in the first Romanian ICA-OSGeo Lab. Vasile was the chair of the 2019 FOSS4G international conference. From February 2021 he is the Romanian delegate in the Destination Earth Coordination Group and recently was appointed as national expert in the EEA EIONET Land Technical Group.
Sessions
Climate change and its inescapable consequences on our lives, from the water we drink and the food we eat, to the security of our homes and the supply chains for our day-to-day activities, are in the realm of certainty. What seems to still remain is the need for a complete acknowledgement that must eventually lead to maximising worldwide efforts to better understand, quantify, predict and prepare for the possible aftermath.
The Open Earth Monitor Cyberinfrastructure is an European project that has brought together an impressive number of Earth Sciences and computer scientists that imagined and calculated a significant amount of worldwide and regional geospatial data products based on satellite data, from agriculture to forestry, from air quality to flood monitoring. Within the project, a dedicated activity was to assess to which extent the OpenEarthMonitor results can assist in providing a clearer image of the risks to which the private European sector is exposed due to climate change. A special attention was given to the financial sector with an emphasis on the insurance branch, given its significant role in the stability of the economy, through its intermediary services to transfer and allocate financial capital.
The team has extensively tested and shaped the open source tool Climada (https://climada.ethz.ch/) to evaluate the potential of OEMC generated products in the analysis of risk assessment of the European private sector.
This talk will present the results obtained.