Roberto Cremonini - Agência Regional de Proteção Amiental de Piemonte - Italia https://doity.com.br/foss4gisgov

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Roberto Cremonini
Dipartimento Sistemi Previsionali ARPA
Piemonte
r.cremonini@arpa.piemonte.itr.cremonini@arpa.piemonte.it
GFOSS tools for natural hazards
management in Arpa Piemonte,
Italy

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• Contest
• Motivations
• GFOSS operational tools
– To monitor and forecast
meteo-hydrological
risks
– Avalanches
• Lesson learnt
• Ongoing works
Summary

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• Part of National Civil
Protection for natural risks
• The ARPAP Dept. is
responsible for monitoring
and forecasting weather,
rivers' status, seismic
activity, landslides,
avalanches
• Meteorological,
hydrological, seismic and
air quality networks
management
Dept. duties

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The Italian warning system for
natural risks
National Law 02/2004National Law 02/2004
Regional centers:
“Centri Funzionali”
Regional centers:
“Centri Funzionali”
Meteorological and
hydrological
observing systems
Meteorological and
hydrological
observing systems
Operational
procedures
Operational
procedures

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FORECASTFORECAST MONITORINGMONITORING
NumericalModels
Observations
RISK
SCENARIOS
RISK
SCENARIOS
Evaluation
Warnings!

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Piemonte
warnings on 2nd
Aug 2014

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Automatic ground stations:
gauge
snow depth meter
rivers discharge
anemometer
thermometer
hygrometer
radiometer
barometer
snow thermometer
432
347
101
103
109
345
167
80
56
11
Arpa Piemonte
meteo-hydrological network

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The weather radar network

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920/10/2015
Earth Observations
●
Air quality
●
NDVI, PS, landslides (Co-
EMS)
●
Soil moisture estimations
based on innovative sensors
(SMAP)
●
Evaluation of H-SAF
products (snow cover, MWR
estimations, soil moisture)
●
Crop residue burning
products for emissions and
air quality evaluations
●
Land-cover changes

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10
A Trip from Mountains to Valley: Copernicus satellites as “sentinels" of environmental and economical
changes
20/10/2015
Copernicus Emergency Management
Service

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1120/10/2015
Copernicus EMS
showcase
Total rainfall from 9Total rainfall from 9thth
to 12to 12thth
Sept 2014Sept 2014
Diffuse landslides: one casualty in Crevacuore (BI)

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Data processing
• Many sources of observations
• Scientific investigation needs
• Costs reduction
• Good programmers (not expert ones!)
• Tools simple to maintain
Free software!Free software!

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• Seldom destructive
(hail, tornado, flash
floods)
• Rapid evolution (~ 1 h)
• Small scales (~10km)
• Limited predictability
Real time applications
(5' or less updates)
Thunderstorms
Zajac and Weaver, 2002

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Integrated Radar Information System

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Storm tracking
1 hour forecas
1 hour forecast

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IRIS – Integrated Radar Information
System

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Torino, 24th
August 2013
Storm id and tracking

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Torino, 24Torino, 24thth
August 2013August 2013
nowcastingnowcasting

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Automatic early warnings
IRIS identifies, classifies
and tracks active
storms.
Automatic warnings
based on storm severity
are issued by email,
SMSs, Twitter, and
smartphone App

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TemporAlert
32,894 downloads32,894 downloads
(22,506 active warnings)(22,506 active warnings)

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Evaluation of avalanches risk

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Proposed solution
A simple tool managed by internal staff
Minimal economic impact
CROWDSOURCING!CROWDSOURCING!

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• Free and open source software (LGPL) for information
collection, visualization, and interactive mapping
• Sending information via web or smart-phone by Android
(and maybe iOS apps...)
• Storage of data on MySQL “flat” database: data are then
mapped as JSON
• Structured as a CMS
• Customization of the application depending on your needs
• Attaching photos, videos, files, or links to other news
• Anyone could post information → Crowdsourcing

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• Current version: v3 → not tested yet
https://github.com/ushahidi/platform
• Used version: v2.7.4
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web
→ Basic requirements:
- Php 5.2.3 or greater (>5.3 recommended)
- MySQL version >5.0
- HTTP Server (of course…)
• Online resource to test functionality on your own map:
https://crowdmap.com

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Ushahidi experience
• Snow surveys from 2012:
- 580 snow surveys by “authorized” users on four
locations in the Alps
- more than 30 avalanches reported
- in total more than 2,100 reports collected

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Ushahidi customization
Default theme
Customized
theme
http://remotesensing.arpa.piemonte.it/neve

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Ushahidi customization
Report snow survey from authorized user:
trigger action on DB
Snow measurement string (YETI encoding):
090216/03/120800000400000017003000///////002123000000011
DB trigger: parsing and decode the string
0902;16/03/12;0800;00;0;4;00;00;00;17;003;000;///;//;//;...
• Localization of the survey based
on station code
• Insertion on MySql DB
• Automatic publication of the
report

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Ushahidi: other deployments
http://remotesensing.arpa.piemonte.it/geodissesto
https://stormitaly.crowdmap.com

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Ushahidi: Pros
• Simple zipped folder, need only web and DB
installation → ready in about 1 hour
• Free plugins to extend capabilities
• Basic customization: some options accessible for a
basic IT skill user
• Adding users
• Validating and confirm the information collected
• Designing different forms to collect information
• Adding categories to map
• Choosing base layer
• Creating triggers (email alert for new reports)

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Ushahidi: Cons
• Few guides for developers
• Lacks on mobile interface
• Bugs (mostly on DB management)
• DB MySQL, preferable PostgreSQL → new feature in
v3 but not tested yet
• Advanced customization: for nerdy people only!
• Adding custom base layer
• Create new theme (CSS styling)
• Modify DB behavior
• Create complex trigger actions
• Manage DB and code bugs

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Final considerations
For basic functionality, Ushahidi does greatly its
job.
But if you need a system with advanced features,
greater customization, a flexible tool that can
also help in complex work situations, it is better
to develop your own project allowing more
freedom of action (for example using Drupal or
other complex CMF)
However the version 3 perhaps has introduced new
useful features...

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Lesson learned
• Strength:
– Costs reduction
– Easy and rapid
development
– Huge help by www
• Weakness:
– Too frequent updates
– Dead OS projects
– New releases compatibility
– Initial choices very hard

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Near future?
• Innovative sensors
• Networking &
Communication
• Cloud computing
• Crowdsourcing
– Citizens as sensors
– Collaborative
frameworks
• Big data paradigm
ESONDA, Ferrara, 21-23 settembre 2016

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Ongoing works
• Data fusion (ground obs, EO, social media)
• Improving Nowcasting
• Extending Early warnings
• Increasing web-services
– WMS / WFS / WMST services
– GeoJSON
– Webapps

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