Project description
A platform for monitoring cultural heritage
European cultural sites are important not only for Europe but for the global community. Their protection and maintenance are very important. Currently, cultural heritage sites across Europe are facing a troubled future with the onset of climate change and oncoming environmental processes, like earthquakes and landslides, as well as human-associated pressure. This problem is expected to cause large damage to European economies if not overcome. The EU-funded STABLE project aims to offer the tools needed for this goal. It plans to develop a platform utilising damage assessment tools, advanced on-site and remote sensor technologies, mapping technologies and structural stability models to allow for an efficient and fruitful confrontation of the issues.
Objective
Europe’s Cultural Heritage (CH) is at risk, endangered by environmental processes enhanced by climate changes and anthropogenic pressure. Specifically the slow (landslides, subsidence) and seismic (earthquake) movements of the ground have a strong impact on the structural stability of the CH. To have an idea of the dimension of the phenomena, the damage on the CH asset declared by the Italian Ministry of CH, caused by the recent earthquakes in Centre Italy, has been assessed in 2 Billion Eur. In this scenario, authorities in charge to CH preservation have a strong requirement for systematic, effective, usable and affordable tools and services to forecast and monitor the degradation process to enable preventive maintenance and to reduce the cost of the restoration.
STABLE addresses the design and development of a Thematic Platform, combining structural stability models, damage assessment simulation tools, advanced remote sensing, in-situ monitoring technologies, geotechnics and cadastral data sets with WebGIS application for mapping and long term monitoring of CH. This will enable effective monitoring and management of the CH to prevent, or at least reduce, catastrophic damages.
STABLE will coordinate the existing expertise and research efforts of the participant beneficiaries into a synergetic plan of collaborations and exchanges of personnel to offer a comprehensive transfer of knowledge and training environment for the researchers in the specific area. The development of Platform will constitute for scientist the way to share and improve CH safeguard methods, and to professionals to apply the most advanced technologies in the related fields.
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00012 Guidonia Montecelio Rm
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.