Earth Observations for Coastal Hazards Monitoring and International Services: A European Perspective

Benvéniste, Jérôme; Mandea, Mioara; Melet, Angélique; Ferrier, Pierric

doi:10.1007/s10712-020-09612-6

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“…In principle, therefore, there already exists a wide range of forward-looking approaches to using climate and environmental data. This data is as provided in particular by Copernicus, for the derivation of climate projections (e.g., [29,[37][38][39]) and for the use of past, present, and projected data for the identification of expected climate-and weather-related challenges at the local level (e.g., [40][41][42][43]).…”

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Application of Copernicus Data for Climate-Relevant Urban Planning Using the Example of Water, Heat, and Vegetation

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Specific climate adaptation and resilience measures can be efficiently designed and implemented at regional and local levels. Climate and environmental databases are critical for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and for efficiently planning and implementing appropriate adaptation measures. Available federated and distributed databases can serve as necessary starting points for municipalities to identify needs, prioritize resources, and allocate investments, taking into account often tight budget constraints. High-quality geospatial, climate, and environmental data are now broadly available and remote sensing data, e.g., Copernicus services, will be critical. There are forward-looking approaches to use these datasets to derive forecasts for optimizing urban planning processes for local governments. On the municipal level, however, the existing data have only been used to a limited extent. There are no adequate tools for urban planning with which remote sensing data can be merged and meaningfully combined with local data and further processed and applied in municipal planning and decision-making. Therefore, our project CoKLIMAx aims at the development of new digital products, advanced urban services, and procedures, such as the development of practical technical tools that capture different remote sensing and in-situ data sets for validation and further processing. CoKLIMAx will be used to develop a scalable toolbox for urban planning to increase climate resilience. Focus areas of the project will be water (e.g., soil sealing, stormwater drainage, retention, and flood protection), urban (micro)climate (e.g., heat islands and air flows), and vegetation (e.g., greening strategy, vegetation monitoring/vitality). To this end, new digital process structures will be embedded in local government to enable better policy decisions for the future.

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Section: Critical Discussion Of Addressing Current Challenges Of Using Climate and Environmental Datamentioning

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Application of Copernicus Data for Climate-Relevant Urban Planning Using the Example of Water, Heat, and Vegetation

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“…Only a small fraction of world coasts is surveyed by hydrographic and geographic national services, and nautical charts and DEMs are decades old. This leads to severe uncertainty in the risk assessment and forecast of storms and climate changes impact (Benveniste et al 2020b;Melet et al 2020). Characterization of physical properties of the coastal zone is thus needed for coastal hazard assessments.…”

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Observation of the Coastal Areas, Estuaries and Deltas from Space

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Coastal regions (including estuaries and deltas) are very complex environments with diverse hydrodynamic and bio-geomorphological contexts and with important socio-economic and ecological problems. These systems are among the most affected by human impact through urbanization and port activities, industrial and tourism activities. They are directly affected by the impact of climate change on sea level, storm surges frequency and strength, as well as recurrence of coastal river floods. A sustainable future for coastal zones depends on our capacity to implement systematic monitoring with focus on: (1) forcings affecting coastal zones at different spatio-temporal scales (sea level rise, winds and waves, offshore and coastal currents, tides, storm surges, river runoff in estuaries and deltas, sediment supply and transport, vertical land motions and land use); (2) morphological response (e.g., shoreline migration, topographical changes). Over the last decades, remote sensing observations have contributed to major advances in our understanding of coastal dynamics. This paper provides an overview of these major advances to measure the main physical parameters for monitoring the coastal, estuarine and delta environments and their evolution, such as the water level and hydrodynamics near the shoreline, water/sediment contact (i.e., shoreline), shoreline position, topography, bathymetry, vertical land motion, bio-physical characteristics of sediments, water content, suspended sediment, vegetation, and land use and land cover.

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“…In principle, therefore, there already exists a wide range of forward-looking approaches to the use of climate and environmental data, as provided in particular by Copernicus, for the derivation of climate projections (e.g., [11][12][13][14]) and for the use of past, present, and projected data for the identification of expected climate-and weather-related challenges at the local level (e.g., [15][16][17][18].…”

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Application of COPERNICUS Data for Climate-Relevant Urban Planning Using the Example of Water, Heat, and Vegetation

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Specific climate adaptation and resilience measures can be efficiently designed and implemented at the regional and local level. Climate and environmental databases are of critical importance to achieving sustainability goals (SDGs) and for the efficient planning and implementation of suitable mitigation measures: Available databases can serve municipalities as a vital starting points to determine requirements, prioritize resources and allocate investments under consideration of commonly tight budget restrictions. High-quality geo, climate and environmental data are now available – data from remote sensing, i.e. Copernicus services will be of crucial importance. Forward-looking approaches exist to using such data to derive forecasts for urban planning process optimization for municipal administrations. On municipal level, however, the existing data have so far only been used to a limited extent, since there are no practical tools for urban planning that can be used to merge and meaningfully combine remote sensing data with local data and to further process and apply in municipal planning processes. Therefore, our project CoKLIMAx aims at the development of new digital products, advanced urban services and procedures, such as the development of practice-oriented technical tools that acquire various remote sensing and in-situ data sets for validation and further processing.

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Earth Observations for Coastal Hazards Monitoring and International Services: A European Perspective

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

Application of Copernicus Data for Climate-Relevant Urban Planning Using the Example of Water, Heat, and Vegetation

Application of Copernicus Data for Climate-Relevant Urban Planning Using the Example of Water, Heat, and Vegetation

Observation of the Coastal Areas, Estuaries and Deltas from Space

Application of COPERNICUS Data for Climate-Relevant Urban Planning Using the Example of Water, Heat, and Vegetation

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