UNICORN aims to tackle the growing challenges posed by climate change, particularly in managing emergency situations and geohazards. It addresses key issues like inadequate preparedness, inaccurate risk assessment, and limited scalability of current solutions. The initiative targets various sectors including first responders, insurance, forest industries, and utilities by offering tools for real-time hazard monitoring, risk assessment, and proactive response.
UNICORN combines Earth Observation data with cutting-edge technologies to provide early warning systems, improve forecasting for floods, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions, and ensure scalable solutions for diverse stakeholders. With an emphasis on collaboration, open-source principles, and data sharing, UNICORN aims to enhance resilience and drive sustainable, data-driven climate action.
UNICORN's primary objective is to provide businesses and policymakers with Copernicus-based applications. This aims to enhance the preparedness of local authorities, citizens, and industries for more frequent extreme events and geohazards. Additionally, it seeks to improve prediction, fostering better resilience to climate change.
The goal is to enhance local emergency management and facilitate short-term recovery processes. To do so, a series of tools for the early warning, forecasting, and monitoring of hazards are developed. UNICORN showcases the impact of these applications across 4 use cases through an end-user validation method towards building a resilient European landscape.
UNICORN envisions a future where advanced Earth Observation technologies provide critical tools for predicting and mitigating natural disasters, ensuring that societies and industries are better equipped to handle the impacts of climate change. We aim to develop Copernicus based applications that integrate scientific knowledge into emergency management policies, improving forecasting, preparedness, and response at local, regional, and national levels.
UNICORN seeks to be a leading force in advancing disaster resilience strategies through collaboration, innovation, and technology, empowering stakeholders to face an uncertain climate future with confidence.
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