Project description
Satellite data to quantify climate change effects on urban areas
Combatting climate change requires all sorts of tools, methods, and policy commitments. To support the adaptation and mitigation measures of the Paris Agreement, the EU-funded HARMONIA project will focus on a solution for climate applications. It will test modern remote sensing tools and 3D-4D monitoring. Specifically, the project will leverage existing tools and services to deliver an integrated assessment platform working on top of Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). Machine learning/deep learning techniques will also be used to develop a modular, scalable, data-driven, multi-layer knowledge base of urban areas. HARMONIA will consider the local ecosystems of European urban areas with extra attention to sustainable urban development goals. HARMONIA aims to deliver an integrated resilience assessment platform (IRAP).
Objective
HARMONIA will leverage existing tools, services and novel technologies to deliver an integrated resilience assessment platform working on top of GEOSS, seeing the current lack of a dedicated process of understanding and quantifying Climate Change (CC) effects on urban areas using Satellite and auxiliary data available on GEOSS, DIAS, urban TEP, GEP etc. platforms. HARMONIA will focus on a solution for climate applications supporting adaptation and mitigation measures of the Paris Agreement. HARMONIA will test modern Remote Sensing tools and 3D-4D monitoring, Machine Learning/Deep Learning techniques and develop a modular scalable data-driven multi-layer urban areas observation information knowledge base, using Satellite data time series, spatial information and auxiliary data, in-situ observing systems, which will integrate detailed information on local level of neighborhoods/building blocks. HARMONIA focuses on two pillars: a) Natural and manmade hazards intensified by CC: urban flooding, soil degradation and geo-hazards (landslides, earthquake, ground deformation) and b) Manmade hazards: heat islands, urban heat fluxes, Air Quality, Gas emissions. Sustainable reconstruction of urban areas and the health of humans and ecosystems, are top priorities. HARMONIA will take into account the local ecosystems of European urban areas, following an integrated and sustainable approach by incorporating the active communities’ participation initiative, which will involve the use of a social platform. Paying extra attention to Sustainable Urban Development, one of the Societal Benefit Areas posits that use of EO is a crucial tool towards resilient cities and the assessment of urban footprints, to promote equity, welfare and shared prosperity for all, feed new indicators for the monitoring of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in an EU context.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningdeep learning
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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20133 Milano
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106 82 ATHINA
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6312 Steinhausen
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116 32 ATHINA
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05-500 PIASECZNO
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300223 Timisoara
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100 44 Stockholm
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00143 Roma
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70013 Irakleio
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021154 Bucuresti
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1164 Sofia
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00560 Helsinki
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RG6 6BU Reading Berkshire
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1040 BRUXELLES
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20100 Rozzano (Mi)
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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20135 Milano
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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20121 Milano
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1000 Sofia
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185 35 PIRAEUS
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N15 4FU London
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15231 CHALANDRI ATHINA
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