The GIS-based Cultural Heritage Risk Assessment service integrates terrain analysis, heritage inventories, Earth Observation indicators and field evidence to evaluate environmental and human-induced threats to monuments, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes. It produces hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk maps that identify hotspots, support monitoring priorities, guide field inspections and inform targeted mitigation and conservation measures.
Integrated GIS service for assessing environmental and anthropogenic risks to cultural heritage monuments, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes. Terrain analysis, existing cultural heritage inventories and site-specific field evidence are integrated to identify where assets are exposed to natural hazards processes and to prioritize locations for inspection, monitoring and mitigation measures and conservation.
The risk assessment addresses hazards and pressures such as soil erosion, landslides, flooding, wildfire, vegetation encroachment, land-use change, agricultural activity, uncontrolled infrastructure development, drought, soil-moisture variation and ground deformation subsidence. Persistent trends from seasonal variability and event-related changes are distinguished, while terrain and hydrological modelling supports the susceptibility analysis.
Acknowledgment of Earth Observation indicators, terrain susceptibility, asset exposure and GIS-based prioritization, within a robust methodological framework. Risk outputs provide decision-support products whose reliability depends on source-data resolution, temporal coverage, field verification and the adopted weighting criteria.