Hear the team of EXPERTS explain the science behind the MI-SAFE package, the resources and services on offer, and how to get access.

Join us for the international WEBINAR 20 July 2017, 16:00 - 18:00 CEST

Check out the new short documentary about the FAST project and its mission to support Nature Based Solutions.

View the FAST YouTube channel

Learn about MI-SAFE in one of Europe's most spectacular cities

Come join us for the IV UCA  International Summer school course TOOLS TO SUPPORT NATURE-BASED COASTAL PROTECTION, 10-14 July 2017.

Funded by the EU's 7th Framework Programme to support cost-effective, nature-based shoreline protection using Copernicus.

Image: FAST project

Europes flagship Earth Observation programme is an EU-led initiative in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA).

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ESA's Sentinel satellites are specifically designed for the operational needs of the Copernicus programme.

Image: ESA/ATG medialab

In a future that includes sea level rise and increasing coastal populations, shoreline defence is going to become increasingly expensive.

Photo:   peter lloyd via Wikimedia Commons

Vegetated coastal ecosystems attenuate waves and stabilise sediments, providing cost-effective protection against flooding and erosion.

Photo:  Iris Moeller via Flickr

FAST will conduct detailed field studies to link biophysical parameters of coastal vegetation to wave attenuation, and validate the remote sensing of these using the Sentinel satellites.

Photo:  Iris Moeller via Flickr

The FAST team is actively engaging in out reach and dissemination activities. Contact us if you would like to learn more.

Photo:   fast-space-project via Flickr

“FAST aims to offer tailor made services that will help end-users to include nature-based solutions into coastal protection schemes” Mindert de Vries, Project Leader.

Creator: EDEA, UCA via Flickr