The HYPERION EU project aims to provide the appropriate tools in order to better understand the effects of climate change, ravages of time, intense geological phenomena and accidental, extreme weather conditions on archaeological sites and cultural heritage monuments.

HYPERION leverages existing novel tools, services and technologies and delivers a brand-new, integrated, resilience assessment platform that will serve as an innovative open-source planning tool.

HYPERION adds on existing tools, by utilizing sensors, including fixed instruments within carefully selected spots in the historic areas, vehicle-based drones, wide-area surveillance services (e.g. Galileo, Copernicus) and even community engagement tools, to arrive at a more comprehensive and synoptic monitoring and emergency response/damage mapping system.

The HYPERION platform includes innovative modelling techniques and advanced machine learning algorithms that maximize the performance and the rapidity of the decision-making process for addressing multi-hazard risk understanding, better preparedness, faster, adapted and efficient response, and sustainable reconstruction of historic areas.

Thus, by using the HYPERION platform, end users will be able to have a better understanding of the dangers and threats to tangible cultural heritage, make decisions for a swifter and more effective response, and contribute to the sustainable reorganisation of the historical regions under threat.

HYPERION addresses policy makers, cultural institutions, municipalities, public authorities, responsible for the management and preservation of national and local tangible cultural heritage assets as well as policy makers, researchers, archaeologists, conservators and other professionals with a key role in conservation-restoration and in safeguarding cultural heritage.