Integrating Earth-Observation services to improve the resilience of Milan urban area towards Climate Change within HARMONIA project

The Horizon 2020 project HARMONIA aims to capitalise on a wealth of existing Earth Observation (EO) datasets and services, integrating them with in-situ and citizens-based data, in order to deliver an Integrated Resilience Assessment Platform (IRAP) and thematic Decision-Support Systems (DSSs). The goal is to enable local stakeholders to easily access and visualise data and to support them in the risk evaluation and urban planning processes. The definition of targeted services and the integration with the existing tools and procedures is a key part of the project and a crucial step for the successful design of the platform. This contribution describes the process defined within the framework of HARMONIA in the case of the pilot city of Milan and presents the potential contribution of the integration of space-based information with respect to the solutions already in place.