Descrizione del progetto
Monitoraggio dei siti del patrimonio culturale
Migliaia di anni di storia umana in Europa hanno prodotto una ricca diversità di siti archeologici e del patrimonio culturale, tutti importanti per le culture dei rispettivi paesi. Purtroppo, la rovina e i guasti fisici e chimici, nonché i crescenti effetti dei cambiamenti climatici (alcuni dei quali sono rappresentati dal peggioramento dell’erosione del suolo e della stabilità strutturale), comportano una maggiore necessità di osservazione sistematica e costante. Il progetto RESEARCH, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di rendere sostenibile per le autorità rispondere a questa esigenza. Il progetto prevede l’introduzione di una piattaforma multitask che utilizza tecnologie di telerilevamento applicate ai sistemi informativi territoriali per mappare e monitorare i siti del patrimonio culturale. Sarà uno strumento accessibile alle autorità per monitorare il processo di degrado, consentire la manutenzione preventiva e ridurre i costi di restauro.
Obiettivo
Europe has rich and diverse cultural heritage resources, which include urban and rural landscapes, comprising standing monuments and archaeological remains. Nowadays Europe’s Cultural Heritage (CH) is at risk, endangered by environmental processes and anthropogenic pressures. Physical and chemical destruction and degradation of structures and artefacts amplify the natural deterioration and reduce the ability of the soil to preserve CH. In addition to physical damages, the intensive human activities and the effects of climate changes are responsible of the increase of soil erosion affecting structure stability and producing significant negative consequences on the conservation of the archaeological artefacts. In this scenario, authorities in charge to CH preservation have a strong requirement for systematic, effective, usable and affordable tools and services to monitor the degradation process to enable preventive maintenance and to reduce the cost of the restoration. The broad spectra of Satellite Earth Observations (EO) provide the ideal platform to undertake a wide range of effective, cost-efficient and up-to-date programmable analysis, as a support to traditional tools. RESEARCH addresses the design and development of a multi-task platform, combining advanced remote sensing technologies with GIS application for mapping and long term monitoring of archaeological CH in order to identify changes due to climate changes and anthropic pressures. The EO processing chain will address the major risks affecting CH including the degradation due to soil erosion, land movement and vegetation as well as risks due to anthropic pressure. RESEARCH will coordinate the existing expertise and research efforts of seven 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.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- humanitieshistory and archaeologyarchaeology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)Coordinatore
01100 Viterbo
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