HARMONIA Project

The HARMONIA Project: Tackling Climate Change Challenges in Urban Areas

The HARMONIA project aims to address critical climate change challenges faced by urban areas, including extreme weather events, flooding, heat islands, air pollution, and geohazards. By developing a resilience assessment platform, HARMONIA helps local stakeholders make data-driven decisions to enhance urban resilience.

Leveraging satellite data and multidimensional urban information, this platform offers a user-friendly knowledge base at the neighborhood and building-block level. It supports adaptation and mitigation decision-making, with a focus on making cities more resilient to climate change impacts. This approach will be demonstrated in four European cities: Milan, Piraeus, Sofia, and Ixelles.

Geosystems Hellas (GSH) Contributions

Geosystems Hellas (GSH) plays a pivotal role in the HARMONIA project. GSH is responsible for leading an integral work package and providing support to the pilot cities of Piraeus and Ixelles. GSH has collected, evaluated, and analyzed diverse urban context data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The data focuses on environmental, land use, socioeconomic, and transportation aspects, offering a comprehensive view of the current state of the pilot cities.

Urban Planning Decision Support System (DSS)

Building on its extensive experience in WebGIS applications and geospatial platforms, GSH is leading the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) for urban planning. This innovative DSS is based on a holistic risk assessment methodology and provides urban planning recommendations to policy-makers. It focuses on a multiple hazard risk assessment approach, guiding cities toward more resilient and sustainable urban environments.

The urban planning DSS will be delivered as a web-based application with an intuitive interface. It will efficiently handle and visualize multidimensional (4D) geospatial data, utilizing cutting-edge technologies.

Pilot Cities and Demonstration

The HARMONIA DSS methodology and capabilities will be tested and demonstrated in all four HARMONIA Pilot Cities, offering a unique opportunity to observe its practical application in diverse urban environments.