A cross-border approach to improve landslide risk assessment using LiDAR-based landslide inventory
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-A IPA Croatia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - MontenegroDescription
Machine learning software application for automated LiDAR-based landslide inventory (developed by FER, HGI-CGS, and RGGF)(EN)
Automated LiDAR-based landslide inventory (created by FER, HGI-CGS, and RGGF)(EN)
Methodology for landslide risk assessment (developed by RZC MUP, HGI-CGS, RGFBD, RGGF, and DZS)(EN)
Thematic information
Priority: (VI-A_HR-B-ME_2) Green investments in environmental protection and efficient risk management
Priority specific objective: RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches
Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility
Type of intervention: 058 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: floods and landslides (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)
Partners (6)
Lead Partner: Hrvatski geološki institut
Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR43733878539
Department: Department of hydrogeology and engineering geology
Address: Sachsova, 10000 Zagreba, Croatia
Department address: Sachsova, 10000 Zagreba, Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.hgi-cgs.hr
Total budget: EUR 599 034.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 509 178.90
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 89 855.10
- Direktorat za zaštitu i spašavanje Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova Crne Gore
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Name: Direktorat za zaštitu i spašavanje Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova Crne Gore
Partner’s ID if not PIC: PIB: 02016010
Address: Bulevar Svetog Petra Cetinjskog, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Department address: Jovana Tomaševića , 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: https://www.gov.me/mup
Total budget: EUR 322 056.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 273 747.60
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 48 308.40
- Razvojno-garantni fond Brčko distrikta BIH
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Name: Razvojno-garantni fond Brčko distrikta BIH
Department: Jedinica za implementaciju projekata/International Projects Implementation Unit
Partner’s ID if not PIC: ID # 4600102930004
Address: Cvijete Zuzoric , 76100 Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Department address: Cvijete Zuzoric, 76100 Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.rgfbd.com
Total budget: EUR 250 929.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 213 289.65
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 37 639.35
- Ministarstva unutarnjih poslova
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Name: Ministarstva unutarnjih poslova
Department: Civil Protection Directorate
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 3616237187
Address: Ulica grada Vukovara , 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Department address: Nehajska ulica, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: https://mup.gov.hr/
Total budget: EUR 275 247.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 233 959.95
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 41 287.05
- Sveučilište u Zagrebu Fakultet elektrotehnike I računarstva
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Name: Sveučilište u Zagrebu Fakultet elektrotehnike I računarstva
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 57029260362
Address: Unska, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Department address: Unska, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.fer.unizg.hr
Total budget: EUR 480 690.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 408 586.50
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 72 103.50
- Rudarsko Geološko Građevinski Fakultet
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Name: Rudarsko Geološko Građevinski Fakultet
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 209444710072
Address: Urfeta Vejzagića , 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Department address: Urfeta Vejzagića , 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://rggf.untz.ba
Total budget: EUR 457 380.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 388 773.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 68 607.00
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Summary
Project acronym: LADY
Project ID: HR-BA-ME00030
Project start date: 2024-10-01
Project end date: 2027-09-30
Project status: ongoing
Relevant linked projects:
- SROK (EN) | The ongoing Project, On the Road to Disaster Risk Reduction (Na putu do smanjenja rizika od katastrofa – SROK), is an EU-funded project (Structural and Cohesion Funds) that aims to reduce disaster risk by raising awareness and educating the general public and primary school children. The total value of the Project is: 1.925.406,64 EUR
- The Projects overall goal is to increase community resilience by raising awareness of risk reduction activities and educating the general public and children on the benefits of disaster risk reduction as well as preparedness measures. Activities are based on the first national risk assessment results and risks identified as the most critical ones.
- The expected results of the Project include:
- - Developed and distributed disaster risk reduction education materials
- - Developed and promoted educational vehicle including an earthquake simulator and natural hazards models. Models are to be tested and disseminated amongst the pilot schools, partners in Project implementation
- - Implemented raising awareness and educative activities for school teachers, children and the general public.
- Project elements are as follows:
- 1. Prepare the project application
- 2. Develop educational material
- 3. Procure the educational vehicle and hazard models
- 4. School teachers, children and the general public raising awareness
- 5. Project management and administration
- 6. Promotion and visibility. (EN), NoRiskBase (EN) | The Project, Assistance in developing a more robust baseline for effective disaster risk management – NO RISK BASE, was an EU-funded technical assistance project funded under the Union Civil Protection Mechanism Financial Instrument.
- The aim of the Project was to develop a multi-risk Disaster Risk Management Strategy and new national Disaster Risk Assessment Guidelines. The draft documents focused on reducing the most significant risks from the two current National Risk Assessments and aimed to fill the gaps analysed in the national Risk Management Capability assessment. Finally, the Project aimed to raise awareness of disaster risk reduction mainly of the national government administrators across all relevant sectors as well as the public.
- The key groups of activities include:
- - Drafting the first national multi-risk, multi-sector Disaster Risk Management Strategy and Action Plan
- - Drafting the new Risk Assessment Guidelines
- - Raising government officials and public awareness of the need for disaster risk management by developing and disseminating educative and promotional disaster risk reduction material.
- Project outcomes included:
- - Draft Disaster risk management strategy
- - Draft a Disaster risk management action plan
- - Draft of the Comprehensive national guidelines for disaster risk assessment
- - 6 expert workshops for working groups
- - Brochures, leaflets
- - Web-based tool for risk raising awareness. (EN), safEarth (EN) | safEarth (Transnational advanced management of land use risk through landslide susceptibility maps design); project under Interreg IPA CBC Croatia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Montenegro
- The main project objective addresses the problems that landslides in the region (HR, BA, and ME) cause, especially through: - designing Landslide Susceptibility Maps (LSMs), - preparation of Guidelines for Landslide Susceptibility Maps, and development of a Strategy for created guidelines implementation in the current legislation.
- For LSM creation, a manual LiDAR-based landslide inventory is created for the area of 310 km2 within three Croatia counties, by HGI-CGS. These inventories will significantly enhance the available data on landslides, allowing for an increased number of manually delineated landslides. This data will be used as one of the input datasets within LADY to develop a machine-learning application, enabling automated LiDAR-based landslide identification.
- Moreover, the knowledge gained in developing well-structured and practical guidelines will be applied and utilized in the activities of the LADY project. (EN), RESPONSa (EN) | RESPONSa (Response to landslide and flash flood risk with Early Warning System design); project under Interreg IPA CBC Croatia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Montenegro
- The project RESPONSa focuses on establishing a landslide early warning system (EWS) in pilot areas (HR, BA, and ME) through landslide monitoring using remote sensing methods, monitoring meteorological conditions, and determining threshold values for triggering hazardous events. Active involvement of local community and civil protection agencies enables the capacity assessment of the community and the development of operational processes, by whose integration into unified EWS, the local community is able to respond effectively and timely.
- Within this project, a manual LiDAR-based landslide inventory is created for five pilot areas in Croatia by HGI-CGS, covering an area of 210 km2. These inventories will significantly enhance the available data on landslides, allowing for an increased number of manually delineated landslides. This data will be used as one of the input datasets within LADY to develop a machine-learning application, enabling automated LiDAR-based landslide identification. (EN), SafeLand (EN) | SafeLand (Living with landslide risk in Europe: Assessment, effects of global change, and risk management strategies); project under the European Commission (EC)'s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
- SafeLand aims to achieve three main objectives: 1) provide an improved harmonised framework and methodology for assessing and quantifying landslide risk in Europe's regions, 2) evaluate changes in risk patterns, and 3) provide guidelines for selecting appropriate risk management strategies.
- The specific tasks completed during project implementation can be directly related to the LADY's activities and outputs. Notably, the project developed guidelines for landslide susceptibility, hazard, and risk assessment, as well as the identification of risk hotspots in Europe. These completed tasks provide valuable resources and information which will be consulted when developing LADY's new methodologies. (EN), GeoTwinn (EN) | GeoTwinn (Strengthening research in the Croatian Geological Survey: Geoscience-Twinning to develop state-of-the-art subsurface modelling capability and scientific impact); project under HORIZON 2020
- The GeoTwinn project stands to gain valuable knowledge from the collaboration between HGI-CGS and renowned European geological surveys; the British Geological Survey (BGS) and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). Through these partnerships, HGI-CGS has significantly enhanced its research potential, engaging in scientific exchanges and training programs across diverse geological disciplines, including geohazards. Within LADY the knowledge gathered will be shared with project partners. (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 385 336.00
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 027 535.60
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%
Co-financing sources:
- IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 2 027 535.60. Co-financing rate, 85.00%.
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Infrastructure investments:
- I3.1 - Upgrading Center for Crisis Situations - Brcko - EUR 20 000.00 - country: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA), town: Brčko, Brčko distrikt (BA01), Brčko distrikt (BA010)
- I1.1 - Reconstruciton of research Center and Laboratory - EUR 95 000.00 - country: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA), town: Tuzla, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine (BA02), Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine (BA020)
Deliverables:
- Working guideliness
- Internal technical workshop report
- LiDAR data
- Landslide inventory
- Field verification report
- Geophysical report
- Lithology report
- Exploration drilling report and piezometer installation
- Geomechanical report
- Analysis of data reported
- Data preprocessing procedure
- Procedure for augmentation of LIDAR data for deep neural network training
- List of suitable deep neural network architectures
- Trained deep neural networks for landslide detection and classification from LIDAR data
- Optimized deep neural networks for landslide detection and classification from LIDAR data
- Minimal technical requirements for LIDAR data analysis using deep neural networks
- Software application based on optimized deep neural networks
- Scientific papers and conferences
- Hydrometeorological data report
- Socioeconomic data analysis
- Landslide risk assessment methodology
- Landslide risk assessment for the northern part of Croatia
- Landslide risk assessment for the Brčko District (BA)
- Landslide risk assessment for South Montenegro
- School-age children educational day
- Educational vehicle
- Educational hazard models
- Civil protection and local government representatives workshops
- Kick-off conference
- Stakeholder workshops and meetings
- Final landslide conference
- Promo video
Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
- Other The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
- The Framework works hand in hand with the other 2030 Agenda agreements, including The Paris Agreement, The Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, the New Urban Agenda, and the Sustainable Development Goals. It advocates for the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries.
- The Sendai Framework states that there is a need for focused action within and across sectors by States at local, national, regional and global levels in four priority areas:
- 1: Understanding disaster risk; 2: Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; 3: Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience; 4: Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
- Under Priority 1 it is important “to promote the conduct of comprehensive surveys on multi-hazard disaster risks and the development of regional disaster risk assessments and maps, including climate change scenarios”, to “provide guidance on methodologies and standards for risk assessment”.
- LADY's contribution to understanding disaster risk and providing guidance on risk assessment methodologies and standards aligns with the Sendai Framework's emphasis on promoting comprehensive risk assessments and ensuring the use of consistent methodologies across different regions and sectors. LADY supports the strengthening of disaster risk governance by providing essential data and knowledge on landslide risks. The creation of landslide inventories and risk assessments allows policymakers, authorities, and stakeholders to make informed decisions and develop appropriate risk reduction strategies and policies.
- EuropeanGreenDeal EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change
- The European Green Deal, one of the six EU Commission priorities for 2019-2024, places a strong emphasis on climate actions. In 2021, the Commission adopted its new EU strategy on adaptation to climate change.
- LADY contributes to this Strategy by addressing the impacts of climate change, particularly in relation to increasing landslide risks. It aims to enhance the EU's capacity to anticipate and respond to climate-related risks and promote actions for reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience. By addressing landslide risks, LADY enhances resilience to extreme weather events, which are expected to increase in frequency and intensity due to climate change, through landslide inventories and risk assessments.
- Other EU Strategy on Disaster Risk Management
- LADY directly supports the EU Strategy on Disaster Risk Management by focusing on landslide risk reduction. It aims to strengthen the EU's ability to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disasters. The activities within LADY, such as creating LiDAR-based landslide inventories and assessing risks, provide valuable data and tools for effective disaster risk management. Improved landslide risk methodologies can significantly benefit the Strategy by providing valuable information and tools to assess, mitigate, and respond to landslide hazards.
- Improved methodologies offer more precise and comprehensive data on landslide susceptibility, hazard zones, and potential impacts. By incorporating these methodologies into disaster risk management strategies, authorities can conduct more accurate risk assessments. Accurate risk assessment provides a sound basis for creating hazard and risk maps, thus providing valuable insights into areas prone to landslides and their specific characteristics. By incorporating this information into spatial planning, disaster risk management strategies can guide decision-making processes regarding infrastructure development, urban expansion, and zoning regulations. Both risk assessment and spatial plans offer a more detailed understanding of landslide processes, triggering factors, and potential mitigation measures. Hazard and risk maps contribute to developing robust early warning systems and help formulate comprehensive emergency response plans. By providing accessible and understandable information about landslide risks, authorities can raise community awareness, promote preparedness, and encourage participation in resilience-building and mitigation activities.
- Other Decision on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM)
- As a Member State, Croatia must adhere to the Decision on the UCPM 1313/2013/EU, among other legislative frameworks. Article 6 of the Decision states that “Member States shall: develop risk assessments at the national or appropriate sub-national level and make available to the Commission a summary of the relevant elements … every three years”. It is, therefore, an obligation of the Civil Protection Authority, according to the national legislative framework and the Decision of the UCPM, to develop quality risk assessment documents every three years.
- According to the Commission Staff Working Paper, Risk Assessment and Mapping Guidelines for Disaster Management, “the national risk assessments will have to draw on data from many different sources posing challenges in terms of data traceability, reliability, proper documentation, interoperability and other. It is therefore important that data sources are made explicit, including as concerns the use of expert know-how.”
- Risk assessments, which will be performed and analyzed within LADY in all three Programme countries, need to be kept up-to-date as risks emerge and evolve, including changes in elements at risk (exposure) and vulnerability. It is, therefore important to regularly review and reassess risks and methods. The review of methodologies for landslide risk assessment will consider relevant advances in best-practice and discussions at the European level. Adequate risk monitoring arrangements, feedback and lessons learnt from a disaster response, exercises and training, as well as the regular evaluation of prevention, preparedness and mitigation measures will facilitate any future risk assessment and the (re-)evaluation of the effectiveness of prevention and mitigation measures.
- EUStrategyDanubeRegion EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR)
- LADY aligns with Priority Area 5 of the EUSDR, which focuses on managing risks, including natural and man-made disasters. By developing new protocols and methodologies for landslide inventory design and landslide risk assessment, the project directly contributes to promoting disaster resilience, preparedness and response activities (Target 4). Thereby, the project incorporates advanced technologies and generates valuable knowledge and information about landslide risks in the Danube region. By sharing this knowledge through information exchange, capacity building, and the adoption of best practices for landslide risk reduction in the region, LADY supports the development of a knowledge society and, thus, directly contribute to Priority Area 7.
- Other Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE Directive)
- The EU INSPIRE Directive aims to facilitate data accessibility and interoperability across the EU, overcoming language and data standard barriers. It promotes the sharing and harmonization of spatial information for various purposes.
- Among 34 spatial data themes, in the context of geohazards and risk, the INSPIRE Directive includes a theme for natural risk. This theme focuses on identifying and mapping natural hazard zones where highly populated areas intersect with areas of significant environmental, cultural, or economic value. To assess and estimate risks in these zones, parameters such as potential hazards, probability of occurrence, and vulnerability of exposed populations and assets are necessary. Within LADY, the harmonized methodology for LiDAR-based landslide inventory design and landslide risk assessed within all project countries will be achieved by taking into consideration the data specification defined by INSPIRE Directive.
- Other LADY directly contributes to the development of risk assessments in partner countries, both by improving the methodology for risk assessment and by conducting/upscaling risk assessments themselves. In all three partner countries, there are legal regulations that require risk assessments to be conducted every three years. These regulations, along with the current risk assessments, are listed below:
- HR
- - Civil Protection Act ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia" No. NN ????)
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- - The disaster risk assessment for the Republic of Croatia was adopted in 2019; the risk of landslides was addressed
- BA
- - Law on the Protection and Rescue of People and Material Goods from Natural and Other Disasters ("Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH" No. 39/03, 22/06, and 43/10)
- - The vulnerability assessment of Brčko District, BiH, to natural and other disasters was conducted in 2017; the risk of landslides was addressed
- ME
- - Law on Protection and Rescue ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No. 13/2007, 5/2008, 86/2009 - second law, 32/2011, 54/2016, 146/2021, and 3/2023)
- - The disaster risk assessment for Montenegro was adopted in 2021; the risk of landslides was addressed
- Other A national platform for disaster risk reduction defined by the UNDRR presents "national mechanisms for coordination and policy guidance on disaster risk reduction that are multisectoral and interdisciplinary in nature, with public, private and civil society participation involving all concerned entities within a country".
- National platforms for disaster risk reduction are established in all three partner countries as follows:
- - The Croatian Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was established in 2009 by the Decision of the Government of the Republic of Croatia,
- - The Disaster Risk Reduction Platform of Bosnia and Herzegovina was established in 2013 by the Ministry of Security in cooperation with relevant Entity and Brčko District institutions, tasked by The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
- - The National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction of Montenegro was established in 2014 by the Decision of the Government of Montenegro.
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSDR
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Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-A IPA Croatia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Montenegro
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2025-02-07
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
34 / 34 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
143 / 147 (97.28%)
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The end dates of project: - RACE 2 - APOLLO - CODES - SMART STEP are an approximation based on the programme's List of Operations available on the programme's website on 2024 -09-18. There the end date is marked in quarters. Combined total of all projects partnerships (11764705.89) in field total_budget is larger than projects total (1499618.4) of total_budget.