ECHO - Mini Crisis Command
A prototype agentic AI demonstrator for real-time situational intelligence
When emergencies move in minutes, intelligence must too.
ECHO turns satellite and ground data into real-time situational awareness, helping crisis teams understand, decide, and act faster when every second counts.
Agentic AI. Digital twinning. Human-in-the-loop. Situational intelligence in seconds, not hours.
Register your interest for the Tabletop Exercise
The challenge
The cost of latency
In July 2021, Wallonia experienced one of Europe’s most severe flash floods.
Entire communities went from normal to catastrophic in under an hour.
Roads vanished. Bridges collapsed. People lost their lives.
The failure wasn’t data.
Europe had satellites overhead, feeds, forecasts, sensors.
The failure was time.
The delay between raw data and actionable intelligence overwhelmed emergency operation centres already stretched thin.
Teams were stitching information together while the water moved faster than they could respond.
ECHO is designed to close that gap.
What ECHO does and why it matters
A crisis-modelling environment built for speed and clarity
ECHO helps crisis professionals:
Visualise complex, cascading emergencies
Integrate satellite data, forecasts, and ground observations
Run rapid “what-if” simulations
Quantify trade-offs between response actions
Understand risk through intuitive, interactive pathways
Incorporate climate-amplified vulnerabilities into planning
This is the next generation of crisis operations.
Built for scale.
Built for resilience.
Built to help us be safer.
From information overload to operational clarity
Modern crises generate overwhelming volumes of data.
ECHO reduces cognitive load by bringing together:
ESA satellite imagery
Geospatial foundation models
Physics-informed digital twins
AI agentic reasoning
Real-time environmental data
Natural-language interaction
This gives decision makers the situational intelligence they need when the stakes are highest.
Better insights. Earlier action.
Better chances of saving lives.
Agentic AI for Crisis Response
A shift from passive analysis to active decision support
Agentic AI systems can:
Interpret satellite and ground data
Test interventions
Report findings through natural language
Support teams under time pressure
Document reasoning for traceability
But AI must be tested before trust can be earned.
ECHO is a governable, human-in-the-loop system, designed to stress-test AI-supported crisis response in simulated disaster conditions, much like autonomous vehicles underwent testing before real-world use.
How ECHO works
A single operational loop
ECHO integrates:
Geospatial foundation models
Physics-informed digital twins
Satellite and ground data
AI agents for reasoning and task execution
Light-field and 3D visualisation
Natural-language interaction for guidance and reporting
The result is a prototype glimpse of what future crisis command centres could feel like, faster, clearer, more resilient.
This interactive scenario showcases:
Real-time flood spread modelling
Cascading infrastructure impacts
Intersections with road networks and population centres
Simulated evacuation interventions
AI-supported trade-off analysis
Narrative situational reporting
The demo can be adapted to future flash-flood events using ESA data and AI.
Join the Tabletop Exercise
Help shape the future of crisis operations
We’re inviting crisis professionals, first responders, planners, and resilience leaders to join a Flash Flood Tabletop Exercise near London.
Together we will:
Stress-test AI in high-risk conditions
Explore where agentic systems help
Identify failure modes
Shape guardrails for safe operational use
Want to get involved?
Sign up through the form below or request an invitation by contacting loren.king@trillium.tech.
Disaster Buddy
Crisis intelligence when communications are down
What happens when a natural disaster, geomagnetic storm, or cyber-attack knocks out conventional networks?
Disaster Buddy is ECHO’s standalone, low-power AI assistant that can operate without modern communications infrastructure, providing critical guidance in situations where everything else fails.
Hand-held intelligence in crisis scenarios
Built with and supported by ESA, Trillium Technologies, Safer Places and CloudFerro.
