Systems and alerts for civil protection application: Territorial analysis, scenarios elaboration and fields application through a new technological approach

Abstract

Hydro-geological instability represents a problem of considerable importance for our country, given the extensive damage caused to property and, most importantly, for the loss of many human lives. Continued occurrences of these events suggest us about the need to enforce risk management policy related to the prediction of the event and the mitigation of his effects. Consequently, a basic approach focused on damage repairing and on the provision of benefits, has to be overcome toward a culture of prevention and prediction, spread out at various levels, based on the identification of risk conditions and on the adoption of measures aimed to minimize environmental impacts. For the prevention, problem resolution is not easy to define the precursors and thresholds. To this scope it is focused the project "Smart Multichannel Open Standard Data System Platform to Natural Risk Assessment-MODS" with a collaboration between three companies, Sysman, Servizi di Informazione Territoriale S.r.l. and Ingloba360 srl, the National Research Council - Institute of Water Research and the Department of Agriculture with the Associazione dei Consorzi di Difesa della Puglia (ASSOCODIPUGLIA, Consortium Association of Apulia protection). In the project, there is the direct involvement of Civil Protection. This collaboration has created an innovative vigil and pre-alert system as regards hydro-geological danger. System is able to manage in an interoperable way a huge quantity of data based on a data warehouse with a subsystem of Recording Weather Alert and Relevant Events - ReWARE. The application of this system allows a continuous monitoring with an automatic upgrade in real time, it is constituted by a telemetry network with coverage rising of the 94% of the Apulia region. At the same time it creates a vigil on the level of criticality much more efficient of the currently systems operating on the territory with a more sudden intervention not only in the areas constantly monitored, but through the new mobile network it is possible also a sudden intervention or a predictive analysis. The system, that is applied for the first time, fully automated, permitted to collect the date directly from the station, to process them, elaborate the status, identified the result on the regional territory using the GIS technology, and create a series of map that identified the status of the territory