During the VALKYRIES Project, a series of use cases and demonstrators will be developed placing an emphasis on cross-frontier and cross-sectorial BLOS (Beyond Line of Sight) scenarios, where the usual communications infrastructure could have been damaged, and emergency response teams are deployed without an accurate view of the operation environment.
Cross-border crisis has taken place as a result of an earthquake in the border area between Bulgaria and Greece, causing a series of humanitarian crisis and industrial accidents threatening the lives of the population in the Bulgarian-Greek border area. There is a great number of affected population with a number of victims in the worst affected municipalities. Hundreds of families lost their homes; there is a severely damaged infrastructure, destroyed residential buildings, farm buildings and warehouses.
The telephone connection, including the connection of the mobile operators, has been disrupted, which makes communication in the area difficult. A large part of the water supply network in the area of the epicenter of the earthquake was destroyed.