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

Project Information

HARMONIA

Grant agreement ID: 101003517

DOI

10.3030/101003517

Project closed

EC signature date 18 May 2021

Start date 1 June 2021

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost

€ 4 999 803,61

EU contribution

€ 4 999 794,00

Coordinated by

POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (23)

Implementation of high impact communication activities report

Output of task T8.2.

Urban Context data acquisition & integration

This regards the “rich” set of information for the 4 pilot cities to be used in the HARMONIA geographic in-formation management system that provides a spatial understanding for cities.This deliverable is the output of task T. 3.2

HARMONIA Climate passport of Milan

An exhaustive technical sheet on Paris agreement targets reached/to be reached and /or concrete measures taken. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.2.

HARMONIA Climate passport of Sofia

An exhaustive technical sheet on Paris agreement targets reached/to be reached and /or concrete measures taken. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.4.

Impact assessment and performance validation

Report – Output of task T7.6

In situ data acquisition & integration

Report which describe the instruments, adopted data acquisition workflow and processing recommendations.This deliverable is the output of task T. 3.3

Requirements and availability on data acquisition transformation & intelligence extraction

Report that will describe what kind of data is already available and what impact modelling is needed for the targeted inferenceThis deliverable is the output of task T22

Citizens-based data acquisition & integration

Report that includes documentation for integration. Citizens as observatories tools, Crowdsourced data, etc.This deliverable is the output of task T. 3.1

Dissemination plan & high impact collateral report

Output of task T8.1.

EO data acquisition & integration

Report which will include detaled information of the relevant data sources with the acquisition mode selected for Harmonia tasks. The report will also present reasoning and technical details of the integration method se-lected, this will include also data and metadata maps with task linkage.This deliverable is the output of task T. 3.4

Data annotation

Report which examine annotation methods and their implementationThis deliverable is the output of task T 35

Ethics

Compliance with ethics regulations and guidelines of the EC

HARMONIA Climate passport of Piraeus

An exhaustive technical sheet on Paris agreement targets reached/to be reached and /or concrete measures taken. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.5.

Data and services Taxonomy report

Report describing the way to ensure legal and ethical use of EO data.This deliverable is the output of task T.1.6

Community Management & Ecosystem report

Output of task T8.3.

Demonstration activity Report (DAR) and Validation Activities Report in Piraeus

Maps and models of risk assessment due to natural and cultural processes ongoing in this demonstration case-study. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.5.

HARMONIA Climate passport of Ixelles

An exhaustive technical sheet on Paris agreement targets reached/to be reached and /or concrete measures taken. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.3.

Collection of all HARMONIA Climate city passports

Initial T0 version at the start of Pilots. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.1.

Final project outcome report

Final report describing the overall project management activties. This report covers also the post-project period.This deliverable is the output of task T.1.1

Demonstration activity Report (DAR) and Validation Activities Report in Milan

Maps and models of risk assessment due to natural and cultural processes ongoing in this demonstration case-study. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.2.

Demonstration activity Report (DAR) and Validation Activities Report in Ixelles

Maps and models of risk assessment due to natural and cultural processes ongoing in this demonstration case-study. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.3.

Stakeholders engagement plan

A plan detailing the the methodology for achieving maximum engagement of relevant stakeholders of HARMONIA.

Demonstration activity Report (DAR) and Validation Activities Report in Sofia

Maps and models of risk assessment due to natural and cultural processes ongoing in this demonstration case-study. This deliverable is the output of task T.7.4.

Open Research Data Pilot (2)

Data management plan & Data ethics report v1

Report describing the way data generated and collected during the project will be handled (storage, sharing, access, etc.)This deliverable is the output of task T.1.5

Data management plan & Data ethics report v2

Data management plan & Data ethics report v2: Final report describing the way data generated and collected during the project will be handled (storage, sharing, access, etc.). This report covers also the post-project period.This deliverable is the output of task T.1.5

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (4)

Downscaling to City scale data for climate change

Demo and report as output of task T4.2

Ecological Integrity Indexes

Demo and report as output of task T4.3

The HARMONIA Data Cubes

Report which describes the Data Cubes architecture and implementation and also query optimization.This deliverable is the output of task T. 3.6

Atmospheric forcing, weather reanalysis and forecasting data

Demo and report as output of task T4.1

Publications

Conference proceedings (7)

Multi-Spectral Band Selection and Spatial Explanations Using XAI Algorithms in Remote Sensing Applications

Author(s): Anastasios Temenos, Nikos Temenos, Maria Kaselimi, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis
Published in: IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023, ISSN 2153-7003
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/igarss52108.2023.10282565

Integrating Earth-Observation services to improve the resilience of Milan urban area towards Climate Change within HARMONIA project

Author(s): Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi, Maria Stella Lux, Rita Maria Cristina Musacchio, Carlo Andrea Castiglioni
Published in: Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2023, ISSN 2642-9535
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jurse57346.2023.10144183

Changing Cities for Resilience against Climate Changes: Architectural, Engineering and Human Health Implications – The H2020 Project HARMONIA

Author(s): J.N. Tzortzi, G. Barbotti, C.A. Castiglioni , A. Voza
Published in: PROCEEDINGS of the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on CHANGING CITIES V Spatial, Design, Landscape, Heritage & Socio-economic Dimensions, 2022, ISSN 2654-0460
Publisher: University of Thessaly, Department of Planning and Regional Development, Laboratory of Urban Morphology & Design, Volos, Greece

Multi-Modal Deep Learning For Multi-Temporal Urban Mapping With A Partly Missing Optical Modality

Author(s): Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban
Published in: IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023, Page(s) 6843-6846, ISSN 2153-6996
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/igarss52108.2023.10281626

A novel web-based decision support tool for enhancing urban resilience and sustainability

Author(s): Christos Kontopoulos, Efthymios Magkoufis, Anna Papadima, Despoina Skoulidou, Athanasia Kazantzi, Sebastian Hafner
Published in: Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment, RSCy 2023, Issue article id 1278600, 2023, ISSN 0277-786X
Publisher: SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
DOI: 10.1117/12.2681912

Investigating Imbalances Between SAR and Optical Utilization for Multi-Modal Urban Mapping

Author(s): Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban, Andrea Nascetti
Published in: 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, JURSE 2023, 2023, ISBN 978-1-6654-9373-4
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/jurse57346.2023.10144208

HARMONIA: strategy of an integrated resilience assessment platform (IRAP) with available tools and geospatial services.

Author(s): J N Tzortzi, A Doulamis, I Rallis, M S Lux, G Barbotti, I Tzortzis
Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science -, Issue Volume 1122, 2022, Page(s) 012020
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1122/1/012020

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Using open data to reveal factors of urban susceptibility to natural hazards and man-made hazards: case of Milan and Sofia

Author(s): Alberto Vavassori, Angelly De Jesús Pugliese Viloria, Maria Antonia Brovelli
Published in: GeoScape, Issue Volume 16, Issue 2, December 2022, 2022, Page(s) 93 - 107, ISSN 1802-1115
Publisher: Sciendo
DOI: 10.2478/geosc-2022-0008

Insights into the Effect of Urban Morphology and Land Cover on Land Surface and Air Temperatures in the Metropolitan City of Milan (Italy) Using Satellite Imagery and In Situ Measurements

Author(s): Mathilde Puche,Alberto Vavassori, Maria Antonia Brovelli
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue Volume 15, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 733, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs15030733

AgriSen-COG, a Multicountry, Multitemporal Large-Scale Sentinel-2 Benchmark Dataset for Crop Mapping Using Deep Learning

Author(s): Teodora Selea
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue vol.15, issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 2980, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs15122980

C2A-DC: A context-aware adaptive data cube framework for environmental monitoring and climate change crisis management

Author(s): Anastasios Temenos, Nikos Temenos, Ioannis N. Tzortzis, Ioannis Rallis, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis
Published in: Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Issue Volume 34, 2024, 101171, 2024, ISSN 2352-9385
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101171

Seismic fragility assessment of high-rise stacks in oil refineries

Author(s): Karaferis D. Nikolaos, Kazantzi Athanasia, Melissianos E. Vasileios, Bakalis Konstantinos, & Vamvatsikos Dimitrios
Published in: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Issue issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 6877–6900, ISSN 1573-1456
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-022-01472-2

Semi-Supervised Urban Change Detection Using Multi-Modal Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI Data

Author(s): Sebastian Hafner,Yifang Ban, Andrea Nascetti
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue Vol. 15, no 21, article id 5135, 2023, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs15215135

The Living Concrete Experiment: Cultivation of Photosynthetically Active Microalgal on Concrete Finish Blocks

Author(s): Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi, Rola A. Hasbini, Matteo Ballottari, Francesco Bellamoli
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 2147, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su16052147

Unsupervised domain adaptation for global urban extraction using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI data

Author(s): Sebastian Hafner, Yifang Ban, Andrea Nascetti
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue Vol 280, 113192, 2022, ISSN 1879-0704
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.113192