Europe’s Cultural Heritage (CH) is at risk, endangered by environmental processes enhanced by climate changes and anthropogenic pressure. Specifically the slow (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 as well as the death toll.
STABLE puts disaster prevention and the reduction of risks at the centre of disaster risk management according to the similar policy of EU to help Member States to develop policies to better prevent, prepare for, and respond to disasters. STABLE actions will help in the direction signed on the “The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030”, the global agreement to reduce and prevent disaster risks across the globe, where the EU played a key role in the negotiations of the agreement and supports EU Member States and non-EU countries.
STABLE main objective is 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 enables effective monitoring and management of the CH to prevent, or at least reduce, catastrophic damages.
The 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.
