Project facts
Presentation
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 archaeological 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 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.
Changes in the landscape will be analyzed by addressing different climatic and environmental conditions in Europe.
Impacts & Results
- The CLIMA platform, as the major outcome of the project, will enable the authorities responsible for the preservation of the archaeological cultural landscape to carry out an effective planning and implementation policy of preventive maintenance.
- To develop technologies, procedures and systems for the systematic and long-term monitoring or archaeological cultural landscapes to identify changes in the landscape due to climate changes and anthropic pressures.
- The tool will also perform integration of satellite, ground-based and historical data to take into account the evolution of the different historical and environmental context of the site.
- The project CLIMA will develop an effective, usable and affordable multi-task tool providing risk and warning maps of the sites as input for decision making authorities responsible for the preservation of the archaeological cultural landscape.
- The use of the proposed methodologies will mark substantial progress in the definition of an important decision-making tool as well as a commercial service for the monitoring of the degradation process and the planning of preventive maintenance activities.