Description du projet
Résilience urbaine pour l’Europe
Le projet H2020 Espace, CURE, est un effort conjoint de 10 partenaires de 9 pays qui exploite en synergie les 4 services de base de Copernicus pour développer une «application parapluie» pour la résilience urbaine, composée d’applications transversales individuelles pour l’adaptation/l’atténuation du changement climatique, l’énergie et l’économie, ainsi que des villes et des environnements sociaux sains, dans plusieurs villes européennes. Ces applications transversales répondent à l’échelle et à la granularité requises en intégrant ou en exploitant également des données de tiers, des observations in situ et des modélisations. CURE utilise les DIAS (services d’accès aux données et à l’information) pour développer un système capable de soutenir des applications opérationnelles et des services en aval dans toute l’Europe. Le système CURE héberge les applications transversales développées, ce qui permettra de les intégrer dans les services opérationnels à l’avenir. CURE devrait augmenter la valeur des services de base de Copernicus pour de futures applications émergentes dans le domaine de la résilience urbaine, en exploitant également l’amélioration de la qualité des données, de la couverture et des temps de revisite des futures missions satellitaires. Ainsi, CURE permettra des activités de planification urbaine de routine plus efficaces ayant un impact socio-économique évident, ainsi que des activités de planification de la résilience plus efficaces en vue d’atténuer le changement climatique et de s’y adapter, ce qui se traduira par une amélioration du confort thermique et de la qualité de l’air, ainsi que par une meilleure efficacité énergétique. Les résultats spécifiques de CURE pourraient être intégrés dans le portefeuille de services opérationnels de Copernicus. La valeur ajoutée et les avantages attendus du programme CURE sont liés à la transformation de la gouvernance urbaine et de la qualité de vie, car il est censé fournir des informations améliorées et intégrées aux administrateurs des villes, soutenant ainsi efficacement les stratégies de planification de la résilience à l’échelle locale et urbaine, en vue de la mise en œuvre des objectifs de développement durable et du nouveau programme urbain pour l’Europe. Plus d’informations sur: http://cure-copernicus.eu
Objectif
Resilience has become an important necessity for cities, particularly in the face of climate change. Mitigation and adaptation actions that enhance the resilience of cities need to be based on a sound understanding and quantification of the drivers of urban transformation and settlement structures, human and urban vulnerability, and of local and global climate change. Copernicus, as the means for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation (EO), is based on continuously evolving Core Services. A major challenge for the EO community is the innovative exploitation of the Copernicus products in dealing with urban sustainability towards increasing urban resilience. Due to the multidimensional nature of urban resilience, to meet this challenge, information from more than one Copernicus Core Services, namely the Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), the Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), the Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Emergency Management Service (EMS), is needed. Furthermore, to address urban resilience, the urban planning community needs spatially disaggregated environmental information at local (neighbourhood) and city scales. Such information, for all parameters needed, is not yet directly available from the Copernicus Core Services mentioned above, while several elements - data and products - from contemporary satellite missions consist valuable tools for retrieving urban environmental parameters at local scale.
The H2020-Space project CURE (Copernicus for Urban Resilience in Europe) is a joint effort of 10 partners from 9 countries that synergistically exploits the above Copernicus Core Services to develop an umbrella cross-cutting application for urban resilience, consisting of individual cross-cutting applications for climate change adaptation/mitigation, energy and economy, as well as healthy cities and social environments, at several European cities. These cross-cutting applications cope with the required scale and granularity by also integrating or exploiting third-party data, in-situ observations and modelling. CURE uses DIAS (Data and Information Access Services) to develop a system capable of supporting operational applications and downstream services across Europe. The CURE system hosts the developed cross-cutting applications, enabling its incorporation into operational services in the future.
CURE is expected to increase the value of Copernicus Core Services for future emerging applications in the domain of urban resilience, exploiting also the improved data quality, coverage and revisit times of the future satellite missions. Thus, CURE will lead to more efficient routine urban planning activities with obvious socioeconomic impact, as well as to more efficient resilience planning activities related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, resulting in improved thermal comfort and air quality, as well as in enhanced energy efficiency. The CURE impact is maximized by developing synergies with EuroGEOSS and Climate-KIC, as well as by exploring the conditions under which, specific CURE outcomes could be integrated into the operational Copernicus service portfolio. The added value and benefit expected to emerge from CURE is related to transformed urban governance and quality of life, because it is expected to provide improved and integrated information to city administrators, hence effectively supporting strategies for resilience planning at local and city scales, towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda for Europe.
Champ scientifique
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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