Descripción del proyecto
Una herramienta nueva para vigilar las lagunas europeas
Las lagunas representan el 5 % de la superficie del litoral de Europa. Las lagunas costeras están separadas del océano por una barrera y son masas de agua someras conectadas al océano, al menos de forma intermitente, por una o más ensenadas restringidas. Son muy vulnerables a las presiones climáticas y antropogénicas, como la agricultura intensiva y la urbanización extensiva, principalmente debido a la proliferación del turismo. El equipo del proyecto SMARTLAGOON, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrollará una herramienta que favorecerá la vigilancia en tiempo real, el análisis y la gestión eficaz de estas zonas vulnerables. El proyecto se centrará en la laguna costera de agua salobre más grande de Europa: el mar Menor. Esta laguna costera ubicada en la península Ibérica, concretamente en el sureste de la Comunidad Autónoma de Murcia (España) y cerca de Cartagena, ha sufrido degradación medioambiental por motivos socioambientales.
Objetivo
Coastal lagoons are ecosystems with great environmental and socioeconomic value. However, these natural systems are especially vulnerable to climatic and anthropogenic pressures, such as intensive agriculture and extensive urbanization as a consequence of the tourist development. Despite the vulnerability and complexity of these ecosystems, there has been limited development of novel techniques which can provide real-time monitoring, analysis and management of these critical resources. Beyond being useful for policy-making procedures at multiple levels of granularity, these tools can increase local and citizen awareness of environmental impacts. SMARTLAGOON project intends to develop a digital twin to build a systemic understanding of the socio-environmental inter-relationships affecting costal lagoons and their ecosystem. It will digitally replicate the policy-making procedure of these complex socio-environmental systems by combining, analyzing and interpreting data from different sources; including efficient in-situ IoT infrastructures with edge computing capabilities that reduce the overall system’s carbon footprint, remote sensing technologies, social media sensing, open-data repositories and data from human behavior, economics and the social sciences, by making recourse to advanced AI, NLP, physically-based and citizen science models. As a case study, SMARTLAGOON focuses on the Europe’s largest salt water coastal lagoon, i.e. Mar Menor (Murcia, Spain), which has suffered serious environmental degradation due to several socio/environmental reasons. We will jointly develop our tool with citizens, stakeholders and policy-makers of this area to address their needs and requirements, following an agile methodology to ensure practical and useful results for this particular scenario in the first instance and extend to other coastal lagoons in the second instance.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomics
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-FETPROACT-2020-2
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
30107 Murcia
España