Project: Cultural Landscape rsik Identification, Management and Assessment
| Acronym | Clima |
| Duration | 01/06/2015 - 31/05/2018 |
| Project Topic | The European heritage, often characterized and enhanced by the presence of exposed and buried archaeological remains, is nowadays at risk, endangered by environmental processes anthropogenic pressures such as climate changes. These pressures pose a range of immediate and future threats to these sensitive cultural landscapes. In light of these critical issues, monitoring soil processes and soil use changes produced by climate changes and agricultural activities and, at the same time, monitoring structures stability can therefore help to prevent damages to buried and exposed archaeological heritage. In this regard, the CLIMA project aims at promoting highly interdisciplinary soil-oriented research to develop an effective tool for the authorities in charge of landscape preservation. CLIMA addresses the design and development of a multi-task platform, combining advanced remote sensing technologies, both from satellite and ground-based, with GIS application for mapping and long term monitoring of archeological cultural landscapes in order to identify changes due to climate changes and anthropic pressures. The project also targets the development and test of an innovative ground-based gamma spectrometer to measure soil vertical/ lateral disturbance. The effectiveness of the CLIMA platform can be demonstrated with extended field campaigns targeting different case studies in Europe. The main aim of the project is to lead to significant advances in our understanding of archaeological cultural landscapes across the broader research community, the public authorities and in society. In particular, the CLIMA Platform, as major outcome of the project, enables the authorities responsible for the preservation of the archeological cultural landscape to carry out an effective planning and implementation policy of preventive maintenance |
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Project Results (after finalisation) |
The development of an innovative tool for risks and threats to archaeological heritage management, through a multi-risk WebGIS Platform, combining advanced remote sensing technologies, both from satellites and from drones and groundbased, with GIS application, for mapping and long term monitoring of the examined archaeological landscapes, providing periodic risk maps of the main anthropogenic and environmental threats affecting the archaeological sites. • An easily transferable risk assessment methodology, resulting from an in-depth analysis of the main anthropogenic and environmental pressures affecting the archaeological sites, and of the potential of the most innovative remote sensing techniques, combining archaeological and geo-archaeological expertise related to knowledge and protection of archaeological cultural landscapes, combining experts of soil processes, land use and climate change and experts of Satellite and groundbased remote sensing. • Raise dramatically the awareness on available new technologies for landscape and heritage managers, by combining and making available pre-existing knowledge and products owned by project's individual partners to individuals and organisations outside the immediate research community. Promotion of best practice and active involvement of local authorities, public and private end-users through workshops, meetings and round tables. |
| Website | visit project website |
| Network | HERITAGE PLUS |
| Call | JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
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| 1 | Universita degli studi della Tuscia | Coordinator | Italy |
| 2 | University of Stirling | Partner | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Cyprus University of Technology | Partner | Cyprus |
| 4 | ALMA Sistemi | Partner | Italy |
| 5 | University of Copenhagen | Partner | Denmark |