European Defence Fund’s PRECISE Project Officially Launched to Strengthen European Defence Capabilities in Critical Infrastructure Modelling and Effect Prediction
The European Defence Fund (EDF) research project PRECISE (Prediction and Response of Effectors on Critical Infrastructure and Structural Environments) has officially started, bringing together a strong European consortium to develop advanced technologies for automated structural modelling of infrastructures and effect prediction in predominantly built-up environments.
Coordinated by GMV, PRECISE is a four-year research action involving nine partners and two affiliated entities from five EU Member States: Belgium, France, Greece, Italy and Spain.
COTESA, FlySight, GMV, IKH, Indra, Indra Space, MEWS France, MEWS Labs and XenomatiX, together with the Royal Military Academy of Belgium and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, will work together to study the challenge, develop and integrate knowledge, and design the PRECISE toolset.
The project addresses a growing operational need to better assess critical infrastructure and urban terrain in both defensive and offensive military use cases, as well as in civilian and dual-use contexts.
PRECISE will develop a cutting-edge European toolbox combining multi-source data collection, AI-based structural modelling, and hybrid AI and physics-based effect prediction models. By exploiting satellite imagery, aerial and ground collected data from EO, SAR, LiDAR and other sensors, the project will enable the automated generation of detailed 3D structural models and the simulation of interactions between those structures and different physical effectors. This capability will support more informed decision-making, helping to improve optimized operational planning while reducing uncertainty and potential collateral effects.
With the project kick-off process completed, PRECISE now enters its initial phase, focusing on work package synchronisation, requirements definition, data collection planning and system architecture design.
PRECISE is expected to generate knowledge that may help fill a capability gap within the European Defence enterprise, as stated by Manuel Pérez Cortés (GMV, Defence and Homeland Security, General Manager):
“PRECISE marks an important advance for European structural modelling of critical infrastructures and effect prediction, leveraging multi-source data, artificial intelligence and advanced simulation to support demanding use cases related to targeting, resilient infrastructure design and urban planning, while strengthening European defence cooperation and technological sovereignty. PRECISE will certainly pave the way for future capability military gap-filling and spin-off opportunities.”
FlySight Contribution
Within the project, FlySight will support several core activities related to data collection and validation, as well as the development of methodologies for extracting and reconstructing structural information from remote sensing data. Through its contribution, FlySight will support the overall system integration and analysis activities aimed at improving situational understanding in complex and dense environments.
We are pleased to be part of this collaborative European effort and look forward to working closely with all partners throughout the project.
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