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ABOUT EO-PERSIST
EO-PERSIST is a 48-month research project
funded by EU and the HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges call aimed at understanding the impacts of climate change on Arctic environments, infrastructures, and industries. To achieve this, we are developing a cloud-based system that will allow us to collect, manage, and analyze Earth Observation (EO) data that is suitable for permafrost studies.
By leveraging recent advances in EO sensors, cloud computing, geographical information systems (GIS), and socioeconomics, we are creating a unique opportunity to promote pioneering research and socio-economic studies in the Arctic.
The EO-PERSIST project is a collaborative research and innovation initiative
that aims to establish a fertile environment for staff exchanges, knowledge sharing, and know-how transfer. The project’s main goal is to leverage existing services, datasets, and novel technologies to create a continuously updated ecosystem with Earth Observation (EO)-based datasets suitable for permafrost applications.
The project will promote methodological advances in the field of permafrost by exploiting the huge volume of remote sensing (RS) datasets and provide indicators directly connected with socioeconomic effects from permafrost dynamics. The project will perform experimental analysis through five use cases, which will also serve as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the system. In particular, EO-PERSIST UC are the following:
UC 1: Land degradation
UC 2: Temperature anomalies
UC 3: Coastal monitoring and modeling
UC 4: Active layer freeze-thaw cycle monitoring using TSInSAR
UC 5: Exploitation of low frequency SAR
EO-PERSIST’s specific objectives are:
- O1: Exploitation of the cloud processing resources and big data EO archives to construct EO-PERSIST system
- O2: Development and implementation of novel RS algorithms (e.g. TSInSAR methods, CNN, SR methods) to support the assessment of permafrost changes
- O3: Deploying geographical information systems (GIS)-based models (e.g. multivariate analysis, gap filling) to big geospatial datasets for permafrost dynamics monitoring
- O4: Definition and development of socioeconomic indicators for the sustainable development of the Arctic region taking into account land degradation, temperature anomalies and coastal erosion caused by permafrost dynamics and changes
- O5: Sharing multidisciplinary knowledge (Earth’s processes modeling (EPM), RS, GIS, and cloud computing (CC)) and know-how among the partners, while aligning different scientific cultures for the integration of the knowledge from the permafrost domain to resolve the scientific questions.
- O6: Promotion of skills and careers of the exchanged staff. The seconded staff are going to be re-integrated to the sending companies/institutes with an in-build return mechanism for further exploitation of their newly acquired and enhanced skills and knowledge.
- O7: Pushing the conducted complementary research of the partners to the market by creating added value products that correspond to a) a sustainable Arctic EO-based system, b) improved algorithms for permafrost studies, and c) socioeconomic indicators based on RS outputs and GIS models that will make a positive contribution to decision-making processes.
- O8: Ensure the sustainability and long-term business value of the project.
The project's main research and innovation is the availability of a unique way of collecting, managing, and exploiting available EO data suitable for permafrost socioeconomic studies and research via one single cloud-based system/platform. By achieving these objectives, EO-PERSIST is expected to make a significant impact on the understanding and management of permafrost dynamics and contribute to the sustainable development of the Arctic region.
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