Cultural Landscape risk Identification, Management and Assessment Project Proposal

The project proposal Cultural Landscape risk Identification, Management and Assessment

(acronym CLIMA) has been selected for funding under the Joint Program Initiative targeting

Cultural Heritage (JPI­CH, http://www.jpi­culturalheritage.eu/ ).

The proposal CLIMA address the major factors of risks affecting the European landscapes and

landscape elements comprising standing monuments and buried archaeological sites by

developing and integrating new and existing technologies for remote sensing from satellite,

aerial/UAV platform and on ground.

CLIMA addresses the design and development of a multi­task platform, combining advanced

remote sensing technologies, both from satellite and ground­based, with GIS application for

mapping and long term monitoring of archeological cultural landscapes to identify changes due to

climate changes and anthropic pressures. The project also targets the development and test of an

innovative ground­based gamma spectrometer to measure soil vertical/lateral disturbance. The

effectiveness of the CLIMA platform will be demonstrated with extended field campaigns targeting

different case studies in Italy, Cyprus and England.

The CLIMA Platform will enable the authorities responsible for the preservation of the

archeological cultural landscape to carry out an effective planning and implementation policy of

preventive maintenance.

The consortium is led by University “La Tuscia”, Viterbo, Italy and include ALMA Sistemi sas, the

University of Stirling, UK, Technical University of Cyprus, Limassol, Cyprus and University of

Copenhagen, Denmark and the total project duration is 36 months.