Codrina Maria Ilie
Codrina Ilie is a technical geographer, an open source GIS/RS power user, actively working as a project officer to support geospatial data services development at Terrasigna. In her 15 years of activity, Codrina has essentially focused on using open source GIS and RS solutions for data management, processing and visualization. In the last 5 years, Codrina has been actively involved in developing geospatial services dedicated to the (re)insurance European market sector.
As an advocate for free and open source software for geospatial, since 2013, Codrina has been an OSGeo Charter Member and today serves the community as an OSGeo Board of Directors member, within her third term.
Sessions
The risks of climate change impacting the private sector is a dire reality for any community, anywhere, considered at a larger or smaller scale (local, national, regional) and at all of its different levels, be it with respect to the public sector, the private sector and down to every citizen. Consequences of such impacts are already discernible, especially in the case of the (re)insurance industry, also due to the immediate catastrophic consequences that, more and more often, involve human losses as well. Given the fundamental characteristic of the private sector - making a profit - overall results of extensive internal analysis of the financial impact of extreme weather events have been made public by various reinsurance companies. Furthermore, there is a significant body of knowledge to define, characterize and monitor climate change risks with consideration to the financial impact towards different sectors of the markets and, as well, proposed mitigation measures and resilience building strategies. In these endeavours, the geospatial component, encompassing data, technology, methodologies, are essential.
In this talk, the authors propose a simplified methodology dedicated to the use of the generated OpenEarthMonitor Cyberinfrastructure geospatial products relevant for assessing the risk for the European private sector, with an emphasis on the reinsurance sector.
The work presented will also pinpoint on the difficulties that arise from the complexity of accurately defining the geographical extent of the impact chain, as well as for the geographic footprint of the particular assets to be analysed. For interoperability reasons, in the assessment the Global Exposure Database for All schema will be considered because it is aligned with the Risk Data Hub as well as with the OpenStreetMap tags, both datasets being considered in the simplified methodology.
The open source software for geospatial is today a mature, reliable and ever-expanding ecosystem. Paramount FOSS4G projects, such as GRASS, GDAL, QGIS, Geoserver, PostGIS and many others, have been developing for decades, ever improving and adding to their functionalities, as well as a community of developers and users alike. Furthermore, given the fundamental principles of the open source paradigm, the plethora of FOSS4G is constantly increasing, following the technology trends and ever renewing requirements of users. Even so, given the economics of open source, the viability question still remains. What makes an open source for geospatial project successful, viable over time?
Based on the more extensive initiative - the FOSS4G Observatory - the authors will present an in-depth analysis on the potential connections between the heart of a “health open source project” and “software metrics” in regards to the project viability over the long term. Expanding on sustainability matters in the open source, efforts have been invested in deciphering what are the elements that support the uptake of FOSS4G within operational activity, be it scientific-, policy- or commercially related activities, irrespective of its language. All of the three sectors are governed by different driving principles and best practices when it comes to addressing the development, management and use of the open source environment.