Objective Marine foreshores are currently not included in water safety assessments and in levee design. River floodplains are only managed to maximize river discharge capacity. However, foreshores and floodplains deliver several services, such as increasing sedimentation, reducing erosion and attenuating waves that mitigate flood risk by improving levee stability and lifetime. Including foreshores and floodplains in levee design and safety assessments can result in considerable cost reductions for flood risk management. The FAST (Foreshore Assessment using Space Technology) project aims to develop a new GMES/Copernicus downstream service by developing products based on Sentinel data to gain spatial information on foreshore and floodplain characteristics, such as morphology, sediment characteristics and vegetation properties. Necessary ground referencing in combination with measurements on wave attenuation and erosion/deposition regimes will be executed at eight characteristic case-study sites across Europe (Spain, Romania, United Kingdom and the Netherlands). From the collected data general relationships between foreshore and floodplain characteristics and flood risk mitigation properties will be derived and implemented in a GIS based software package. Software calculates effects of foreshores and floodplains on hydraulic conditions derived from either satellite images or engineering manuals. Effects of foreshores and floodplains on wave impact and bed stability are translated to potential reduction in levee width and crest height. Software will be developed in close contact with various end-user groups to ensure commercial uptake and long-term continuation of services. In this way, FAST provides the first standardised tool for integrating levee-landscape interaction into cost efficient and safe flood risk management strategies. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologysocial sciencessociologygovernancecrisis managementflood risk management Programme(s) FP7-SPACE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space Topic(s) SPA.2013.1.1-06 - Stimulating development of downstream services and service evolution Call for proposal FP7-SPACE-2013-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator STICHTING DELTARES EU contribution € 781 249,95 Address BOUSSINESQWEG 1 2629 HV Delft Netherlands See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Delft en Westland Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Mindert De Vries (Mr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom EU contribution € 451 734,18 Address TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS CB2 1TN Cambridge See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Renata Schaeffer (Ms) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU GEOLOGIE SI GEOECOLOGIE MARINA-GEOECOMAR Romania EU contribution € 219 476,70 Address DIMITRIE ONCIUL STREET 23-25 024053 Bucharest See on map Region Macroregiunea Trei Bucureşti-Ilfov Bucureşti Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Adrian Stanica (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STICHTING KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR ZEEONDERZOEK (NIOZ) Netherlands EU contribution € 383 746,37 Address Landsdiep 4 1797 SZ DEN HOORN TEXEL See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Daphne Van Der Wal (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSIDAD DE CADIZ Spain EU contribution € 387 952,80 Address CENTRO CULTURAL REINA SOFIA PASEO CARLOS III N9 11003 Cadiz See on map Region Sur Andalucía Cádiz Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gloria Peralta (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data