The objective of SubCoast will be to develop a service for monitoring the extent and impact of subsidence in coastal lowlands and demonstrate its capability in various pilots for a variety of settings around Europe. The service will be designed to appropriately determine the effects of subsidence on current and future flood risk in coastal lowlands, monitor the integrity of coastal barrier systems and infrastructure and assess the impact of subsidence due to natural or man-made causes (groundwater pumping and oil/gas production) on land use and hydrology. SubCoast will be built on the heritage of GMES Service Element Terrafirma and use the full capability of PS-InSAR as a earth observation technology for large scale subsidence mapping. Necessary R&D will be focused on possible augmentation of data sources and the improvement of retrieval algorithms.
Subsequent validation efforts will make full use of the Terrafirma Validation Test site and other current validation initiatives. A distributed data and information system will be set up which facilitates the accessibility and operability of EO-data, in-situ data (including geo-scientific data) and model results for the selected areas. SubCoast will orient its services along existing guidelines established in previous GMES-projects, notably Terrafirma, and in line with relevant directives at European Level. End-user involvement will be realized by establishing a user federation which holds the most directly involved regional, national and European stakeholders.
Coordinator
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek – TNO (The Netherlands)
Other participants
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali-DICAM
- Resp. Scientifico: Prof. Gabriele Bitelli
Lietuvos Geologijos Tarnyba Prie Aplinkos Ministerijos (Lithuania)
Fugro Npa Limited (UK)
Consorci Institut De Geomatica (Spain)
Panstwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy (Poland)
Hansje Brinker Bv (The Netherlands)
Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
Stichting Deltares (The Netherlands)
The Geological Survey Of Denmark And Greenland (Denmark)
Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. S.R.L. (Italy)
Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands)
Start date 01/04/2010
End date 30/09/2013
Duration 42 months
Project Reference 242332
Project cost 4.084.013,20 EURO
Project Funding 3.108.688 EURO
Area FP7- COOPERATION - SPACE
Subprogramme Area SPA.2009.1.1.01: Stimulating the development of downstream GMES services
Contract type Collaborative project-Small to Medium Scale Integrating Project