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Objectives

Environmental monitoring of urban areas seems to be one of the main requests by the citizens around the world. In Europe the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative (GMES) in Frame Program 6 and future 7 of European Community projects recognizes this need and addresses this topic by means of several scientific projects. Remote sensing provides a good tool to define urban areas in a more consistent way and to produce spatially georeferenced urban extents.

Overall objective is to contribute to the information strategy for the urban system.

Specific objective is an improved scientific information flow and use for sustainable urban management and urban policy in Bucharest for the development of a Urban Integrated Management System that can support a rational decision making process for a better management of urban ecosystem problem

Primary objectives of the foreseen researches in this project are:

1) to assess, forecast, and mitigate the impact of anthropogenic factors on urban and periurban environment and its biodiversity in general with an application for test site Bucharest;

2) to provide early warning strategies on the basis of effects of the degradation of urban environment features (air, soil, water, vegetation);

3) to provide a better understanding of cause-effect-relationships between changes of urban system and its ecological status, due to the impact of environmental pollution and climatic changes as causative factors;

4) to develop opto-spectral methods based on remote sensing data for state-of-the-art impact and risk assessment and decision support systems for the selection of the most efficient management options to prevent effects on forest biodiversity due to pollution contamination sources;

5) to strengthen the scientific knowledge on an European level according to European Research Areas (ERA and GMES) needs in the field of natural and artificial stress factors on urban system environment impact assessment by extensive activities of knowledge dissemination to stakeholders and the scientific community