Descrizione del progetto
Una tecnologia spaziale per promuovere previsioni econometriche ed epidemiologiche
La tecnologia spaziale si è dimostrata estremamente utile per far progredire altri campi, come l’intelligenza artificiale (IA) e l’apprendimento automatico, così come l’economia e i settori legati alla sanità. Questa tecnologia permette di monitorare parametri importanti, agevolando l’efficienza della ricerca su disastri provocati dall’uomo, crisi sanitarie, impatti sull’ambiente e persino in materia di economia. Tuttavia, i molteplici fattori osservati devono essere organizzati e correlati a macro parametri e a diverse scale temporali. Il progetto EYE, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà un nuovo prototipo di servizio utilizzando i dati Copernicus per il monitoraggio e la modellazione dei parametri critici allo scopo di fornire una previsione econometrica ed epidemiologica efficace.
Obiettivo
Space technology connected with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning techniques is one of the most rapidly developing field of science and also play a key role to control disaster by space like Covid-19 outbreak. While space technologies have been successfully applied to a small number of macroeconomy and heath care related matters over the last decade, there is neither a significant utilization of space elements nor a systematic analysis of needs for space assets in this sector yet.
There are a significant number of indirect parameters observable from space that can be correlated to the impact on the economy of natural, health (including epidemic) and man-made disasters. Classical environment parameters (geographical, climatological and hydrogeological) and man induced impact on the environment (pollution, heat) can be combined with economic parameters of human activities impacted by the epidemic including transportation, industry, and commerce. Specific human activities can be directly correlated with the progression of the diseases i.e. increase of heat delivered by crematorium in the affected areas as well as in the dwelling areas due to lock-down restrictions.
All these “observed parameters” need to be correlated to macro parameters related to the progress of the epidemic and its impact of the of the infection to the economy at different scales. At medium- and long-term time scale, this methodology enables the near real-time monitoring of macroeconomic parameters during the recovery phase following the end of the emergency outbreak.
The project EYE intends to propose a prototype service based on Copernicus data, automatic image processing supported by artificial intelligence integrated with modelling and statistic and geospatial data into an IT platform able to provide econometric and epidemiologic nowcasting and forecasting data.
Campo scientifico
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusescoronaviruses
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce
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Programma(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)Coordinatore
00012 Guidonia Montecelio Rm
Italia
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