ABSTRACT
Large industrial structures like dams, mines, nuclear power stations, and others have failed in the past causing large-scale environmental catastrophes. In order to prevent such events it is very important to construct appropriate early warning and fast response systems. This paper presents general components, tasks, and basic rules for design of these systems. The systems that allow gathering of information about risk areas that are or can be affected by environmental catastrophes play a very important role in the process of recognition and prediction of environmental changes. Interdisciplinary teams, global analysis of all indications of change and digital data collection are the key words, which describe in the shortest way a modern system for surveillance of risk areas.
