The aim of DECAIR is to provide companies in charge of forecasting urban pollution with good quality data derived from Earth Observation devices in order to improve the results of existing air quality models.

For that purpose the system includes different components (Earth Observation Data Conversion models, Data base, Forecast models,...) and the integration is one of the key aspect in order

• to incoporate new converted EO data in the future,
• to ease the implementation of models to new sites,
• and to help end-users to choose input data of better quality.

Special Session on Applications of Information Technologies in Fire Safety

• CFD, zone and probabilistic modelling of fires, evacuation models, comparison of model predictions with experiments;
• Development of sub-models for fire modelling, including radiation models, large-eddy simulations and elementary reaction schemes;
• Fire database formats, visualisation of fire data;
• Fire statistics, storing, extracting and analysing large statistical data sets;
• Formation of toxic combustion by-products in fires and the effect of fires on environment;
• Neural nets, fuzzy logic and other intelligent systems in fire modelling and fire detection;
• Risk assessment and fire hazard calculations.