Coastal Risk Information Service (C-RISE) 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. 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.