In the suggestive setting of the Carditello Real Site, the final results of the PON Crowd for the Environment project were presented today : Monitoring of illegal spills through the synergistic use of advanced technologies and spontaneous citizen reports , coordinated by CIRA – Italian Research Center Aerospaziali and by Analist Group srl, and conducted in partnership with the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, University of Naples Parthenope, Expert AI SpA, Major Bit Consulting srl, AI Tech srl, MapSat srl
The objective of the project is the development of an innovative system for the identification and monitoring of illegal dumping, such as illegal landfills, micro-landfills or illicit releases into surface waters, and the organization of subsequent on-site monitoring actions. The processes developed are able to make the action of the bodies responsible for environmental and territorial protection activities more efficient and effective, drawing on information acquired from heterogeneous, even non-conventional, monitoring systems (reports on websites, remote sensing satellites , sensor networks, environmental video surveillance systems, etc.) and processed by IT systems operating at a high level of automation. The proposed technologies support the three phases in which it is possible to model environmental monitoring actions: that of discovery and identification of the sites in which an environmental criticality may have occurred, that of confirmation and characterization of said criticality, that of verifying the restoration of the site following notification to the relevant actors. The aim is to support decision makers with continuously updated analyzes on large areas of territory, which may not be directly observable at street level but can be monitored using sensors placed on drones or satellites, thus reconfirming the presence and intervention of CIRA and the project partners for the protection of legality.
The event, moderated by the journalist Flavio Cioffi, director of “People and Territory”, was introduced by Carmine Basco, Technical Director of the Real Sito di Carditello Foundation, by Antonio Blandini, President of CIRA, and by speeches by Luigi Stefano Sorvino, Director General of ARPA Campania, Donato Madaro, Sole Director of ASIA Benevento and by the City Councilor and CIRA researcher, Vincenzo Angelino Cesario, representing the Mayor of Aversa Alfonso Golia.
The day continued with a short report, by Francesco Pirozzi of SMA Campania and Claudio Marro, Technical Director of ARPA Campania, on the actions carried out by the two bodies regarding the illicit abandonment of waste, and the presentation of the contributions and demonstrators made available point by the project partners.
The event concluded with some reflections on the future of research on environmental monitoring with the interventions of Massimiliano Lega, Parthenope University, Roberto Bardari, member of the project Advisory Board and Giuseppe Persechino, CIRA manager of programs for the development of aerospace technologies innovative for environmental monitoring.
The commitment and role of CIRA on the issue of legality
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