Start

01/06/2021

End

31/01/2025

Status

Completed

HARMONIA

Website's Project

Start

01/06/2021

End

31/01/2025

Status

Completed

HARMONIA

Website's Project

HARMONIA – Development of a Support System for Improved Resilience and Sustainable Urban areas to cope with Climate Change and Extreme Events based on GEOSS and Advanced Modelling Tools

Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi (Principal investigator)

HARMONIA will leverage existing tools, services and novel technologies to deliver an integrated resilience assessment platform working on top of GEOSS, seeing the current lack of a dedicated process of understanding and quantifying Climate Change (CC) effects on urban areas using Satellite and auxiliary data available on GEOSS, DIAS, urban TEP, GEP etc. platforms. HARMONIA will test modern Remote Sensing tools and 3D-4D monitoring, Machine Learning/Deep Learning techniques and develop a modular scalable data-driven multi-layer urban areas observation information knowledge base, using Satellite data time series, spatial information and auxiliary data, in-situ observing systems, which will integrate detailed information on local level. HARMONIA focuses on two pillars: a) natural and manmade hazards intensified by CC: urban flooding, soil degradation and geo-hazards; and b) manmade hazards: heat islands, urban heat fluxes, Air Quality, Gas emissions.

Contribution to SDGs: 11

  • DABC activities

    POLIMI-DABC is the coordinator of the HARMONIA project. It is therefore responsible for the scientific, administrative, and financial management of the project and is also responsible for compliance with ethical standards. With regard to the scientific development of the project, POLIMI-DABC is the leader of T3.3 “In-situ data acquisition,” T4.4 “Geotechnical models in a CC context,” and WP7 “Demonstration and validation activities.” In addition, POLIMI-DABC is the technical partner of reference for the Milan pilot case and is supporting the Municipality of Milan in the collection of relevant data, the definition of needs and requirements, and the organization of dissemination and training activities.

  • Partners

    Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Resilience Guard gmbh, Geosystems Hellas It Kai Efarmogesgeopliroforiakon Systimaton Anonimietaireia, Creotech Instruments Spolka Akcyjna, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Idryma Technologias Kai Erevnas, Urbasofia Srl, Agency for Sustainable Development and Eurointegration - Ecoregions, Ilmatieteen Laitos, Assimila Limited, European Association of Remote Sensing Companies, Humanitas Mirasole Spa, Euronet Consulting, Commune d'Ixelles, Comune di Milano, Stolichna Obshtina, Dimos Peiraia, Markopoulou-Papakonstantinou Kai Synergates Etaireia Dikigoron