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Focus area
Preparedness and infrastructure resilience
Space assets that give situational awareness where sensors, crews and infrastructure are sparse.
03.1
Why this matters in the Arctic
Long distances, thin infrastructure and few response resources mean an incident in the North escalates quickly. A landslide over a single road, an avalanche, a power outage, a grounding far from the nearest vessel — each has consequences out of proportion to its size, and often happens where no local sensor network exists.
At the same time the ground itself is changing. Thawing permafrost, shifting snow and precipitation patterns and coastal erosion act on roads, quays, buildings, pipelines and power lines that were built for a different climate. Monitoring that change is a resilience question as much as a research one.
We are looking for ideas that reach an operational user: civil protection, municipalities, grid and transport operators, coastal administration, or the companies that serve them.
03.2
Relevant technologies and data sources
Geohazards and ground motion
InSAR deformation time series, landslide and rockslide monitoring, permafrost and subsidence mapping, avalanche and snowpack products.
Emergency response
Rapid mapping and damage assessment, Copernicus Emergency Management Service, satellite communications for field teams, search and rescue support, flood and wildfire extent.
Critical infrastructure
Monitoring of roads, quays, power lines, energy installations and remote sites; digital twins; predictive maintenance from combined EO and sensor data.
Decision support
Risk and exposure models, alerting thresholds, integration into civil protection and operator workflows, common situational picture across agencies.
03.3
Partner expertise available to you
Selected teams get access to partner expertise, data and facilities alongside seed funding and business coaching.
Partner
NORCE
Geohazard and InSAR expertise, energy and infrastructure research, modelling of climate impacts on built assets.
Partner
KSAT
Rapid tasking and delivery of satellite data during incidents, plus satellite communications experience.
Partner
Norinnova
Commercialisation support and access to public-sector pilot customers in Northern Norway.
03.4
Your contact for this area
Contact person to be confirmed
Area lead from NORCE. Until the name is published, write to the Arctic Phi-Lab and we will route your question.
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