Project description
Smart monitoring for safer urban forests
Urban forests play a vital role in local ecosystems, offering benefits ranging from recreation to climate change mitigation. However, stronger windstorms increase the risk of falling trees, making afforestation a potential hazard. Public concerns over tree cutting, fuelled by misinformation, complicate management efforts. In this context, the EU-funded TREESURE project is developing a system for tree health monitoring. The system combines satellite data with IoT sensor input to help develop local responses to natural disasters. Overall, TREESURE introduces early warning, damage control, and community involvement to enhance urban forest safety and resilience.
Objective
The role of urban forests in local ecosystems has been widely acknowledged with their benefits ranging from leisure to climate change mitigation. However, with the growing intensity of windstorms affecting Europe and the increasing risk of tree fall, afforestation might become a part of the problem it attempts to solve: damage caused by meteorological events. Parallel to this, tree cutting might elicit a mixed response from the public, further exacerbated by misinformation. Hence, the aim of the TREESURE project is to provide decision support system for tree health monitoring, co-created and co-designed by the array of local stakeholders (risk managers, practitioners, local authorities and associations) representing different pedoclimatic zones across Europe for improved coordination and more tailored responses at the local level increasing resilience to natural disasters. To tackle this challenge, the TREESURE project offers the decision-support system, which will combine the satellite data coming from ESA with the data collected by the IoT sensors. Nature based solutions as root-anchoring systems will be its key feature. Deployment of this system in 3 different geographies will be preceded by in-depth case study requirement analysis, involving social, environmental and technical aspects. Key stakeholders will be engaged from the very outset of the project, starting with tabletop games. Their ownership of the TREESURE solutions will be increased by them taking part in assessment of the dashboard and app prototype and co-creating the user guidelines and policy toolbox. Ultimately, the key stakeholders will take part in the scenario testing, highlighting the importance of early warning, damage control and misinformation. This is expected to increase their engagement on par with targeted dissemination activities. The sustainability and economic viability of the TREESURE solution will be ensured by implementing environmental and economic indicators with a LCA approach.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences physical geography natural disasters
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
You need to log in or register to use this function
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
HORIZON.2.3 - Civil Security for Society
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme -
HORIZON.2.3.1 - Disaster-Resilient Societies
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01
See all projects funded under this callCoordinator
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
50121 Florence
Italy
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.