Descrizione del progetto
Sviluppare software per agevolare l’accesso ai dati dei fondali marini
I cambiamenti climatici costituiscono una minaccia sempre più grave per il nostro pianeta e le azioni per la mitigazione, la protezione e l’adattamento sono ai primi posti dell’agenda globale. Gli ecosistemi oceanici e, più specificamente, l’attività dei fondali marini possono essere molto importanti per il monitoraggio degli oceani. Per questo motivo i metodi per il monitoraggio dei fondali marini che osservano gli habitat bentonici, la morfologia, la profondità e altre variazioni sono alquanto importanti. Il progetto 4S, finanziato dall’UE, avrà come obiettivo il potenziamento dell’insieme di strumenti attualmente utilizzati per l’osservazione degli oceani e dei fondali marini. Per fare ciò, svilupperà un software basato su cloud nominato 4S (Satellite Seafloor Survey Suite) che utilizzerà sia i dati satellitari LiDAR (Stati Uniti) e Copernicus, sia le immagini dei droni per fornire agli utenti abbondanti dati sull’attività dei fondali marini.
Obiettivo
4S will address a current data and solution gaps from coastal and offshore stakeholders, which are the ability to generate and access spatial and recent information on seabed, such as benthic habitat, morphology, depth and change and trends. Digital information on these are crucial to respond to EC maritime directive, environmental impact studies and engineering offshore activities. We will address this gap by developing an online, cloud based software, named 4S – Satellite Seafloor Survey Suite – which empowers the users to benefit from satellite capabilities and specific aquatic EO algorithms. 4S Suite will have APIs allowing to integrate it into hydrographic software and user’s workflows, as will developed and demonstrated. 4S will harness Copernicus data together with US satellite lidar data and – optionally – integrate client airborne (drone) imagery and on-site data. The underlying algorithms, which will reach highest TRL level during the project duration, will address aspects of physical modelling, machine learning and sensor fusion procedures and will introduce breakthroughs of the current state of the art. Both, algorithm innovations and the webapp, will be jointly designed and evaluated with the users, of which some are part of the project team. Other stakeholders, many of which have signed supporting letters, will participate in 7 use cases which cover four countries, the Caribbean and several selected sites globally. With this intense evaluation and co-design we will achieve a reliable evaluation of the process and global outreach to the offshore and coastal stakeholders. The development of a sustainable business based on 4S will be driven by the industry partners, which contribute with 52% of the workload. Based on the existing solution gap we expect a continuous and strong increase in the user uptake and thus economic sustainability, which will lead to the growth of the European blue economy and, as social benefit, directly respond to the UNSDG 14.
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsdrones
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
Programma(i)
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
IA - Innovation actionCoordinatore
82229 Seefeld
Germania
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