TRIQUETRA project

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Safeguarding Our Heritage—The TRIQUETRA Project Approach

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon National Technical University of Athens
  • 2. University of Cyprus
  • 3. ROR icon Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • 4. ROR icon Sapienza University of Rome
  • 5. ROR icon Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)
  • 6. German Aerospace Center (DLR)
  • 7. Geosystems Hellas
  • 8. ROR icon Universität Ulm
  • 9. ROR icon Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland)
  • 10. ROR icon NanoPhos (Greece)

Description

Cultural heritage (CH) sites are frequently exposed to natural elements, and their exposure becomes particularly precarious with the onset of climate change. This increased vulnerability places these sites at risk of deterioration or complete destruction. Risks such as land deformation, floods, acid rain, and erosion significantly threaten historic monuments, while water-related hazards, significantly influenced by both climate change and human activities, present a particularly grave risk to these invaluable sites. Considerable research efforts have focused on safeguarding CH sites. However, there remains a deficiency in systemic approaches towards identifying and mitigating risks for CH sites. The TRIQUETRA project proposes a technological toolbox and a methodological framework for tackling climate change risks and natural hazards threatening CH in the most efficient way possible. It aims at creating an evidence-based assessment platform allowing precise risk stratification as well as a database of available mitigation measures and strategies, acting as a Decision Support System (DSS) towards efficient risk mitigation and site remediation. TRIQUETRA is a European project that brings together a diverse group of researchers with varied expertise, encompassing university research groups, research institutes, public entities, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. In this article, TRIQUETRAs overall methodology is presented, and preliminary results concerning risk identification, TRIQUETRAs knowledge base, as well as novel sensors and coatings, are discussed.

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TRIQUETRA - Toolbox for assessing and mitigating Climate Change risks and natural hazards threatening cultural heritage 101094818

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