DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

Coastal Risk Information Service (C-RISE)

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Description

C-RISe has delivered, in a partnership between the UK, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius and South Africa, access to information on sea level rise, storm surge, wind speed, wave heights and current velocities derived from satellite data and validated with local in-situ measurements. The goal was to enable local stakeholders to use this information to reduce the social and economic impact of coastal inundation and increasingly variable weather patterns. The three main objectives of the C-Rise project were to: • Deliver a Coastal Risk Information Service, providing satellite-derived information about coastal vulnerability to environmental threats such as sea level rise and extreme wind and wave events. • Apply and evaluate the C-RISe service through a set of Use Cases, applying the C-RISe products to end use applications meeting local priorities. • Build local capacity to use satellite data to provide scientific decision support for strategy development, governance and management of coastal areas to increase resilience to coastal hazards. These objectives were fully met, indeed exceeded, in some areas, as follows: • The C-RISe information service provided access to 5 satellite derived data sets: Historical satellite altimeter data providing time series of sea level, significant wave height and surface radar backscatter (2002-2018), Satellite derived climatology of wind velocity (2007-2018), Satellite derived climatology of significant wave height (1991-2018), Satellite derived climatology of surface currents (2002-2017), Web page delivering near real time marine conditions information • C-RISe partners have developed 27 Use Cases, of which 23 have been completed and 4 are still in progress. Only 4 Use Cases were originally foreseen • C-RISe has provided training to over 70 staff members of project partners in two training courses.

Objectives

C-RISe will deliver, through an international partnership with Mozambique, Madagascar and South Africa; access to satellite-derived data on sea level, wind speed and wave heights. The goal is to enable stakeholders to use this information to improve socio-economic resilience to coastal hazards associated with sea level changes such as inundation, floods, storm damage, wetland loss, habitat change, coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion.

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Location

The country, countries or regions that benefit from this Programme.

Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique

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