Europe’s cultural heritage is at risk due to environmental processes enhanced by climate change and anthropogenic pressure. Specifically, slow movements such as landslides and subsidence and seismic movements have a strong impact on the structural stability of cultural heritage. The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage has calculated that the damage caused by the earthquakes in Central Italy in 2016-2017 was about 2 billion euros. These numbers show a clear need to have effective and affordable tools and services to predict and monitor the degradation process such as to allow preventive maintenance in order to reduce the cost of reconstruction.

The STABLE project foresees the design and development of a thematic platform, combining structural stability models, damage assessment simulation tools, advanced remote sensing, in situ monitoring technologies, geotechnical and cadastral datasets with WebGIS application for mapping and long term monitoring of cultural heritage.

The STABLE project brings together the existing competences from both the research and the professional/business point of view in a synergistic plan of collaborations in order to have a complete exchange of knowledge and thus create a high training environment for the whole team. The WebGIS platform, which is the main product of this research project, is important to improve heritage preservation methods and to share them among researchers and professionals in order to apply the most advanced technologies in related fields.

Finally, the STABLE project strives to support heritage authorities in designing and implementing policies for monitoring, preserving, and safeguarding our heritage by efficiently linking management and decision-making practices with scientific and technical knowledge.