The Italian Civil Protection Alerting System is managed by a network of Functional Centers (CF) and Competence Centers (CC) that collect and process meteorological, hydrological, seismic, and volcanic data. The geoSDI program coordinates Italy's spatial data infrastructure for civil protection according to INSPIRE directives. It allows civil and military institutions to store, manage, and share geographic information as OGC web services. GeoSDI has been used to provide geospatial support during emergencies like the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake and the 2009 G8 summit.

1. The Italian Civil Protec1on Aler1ng
System
The Italian Civil Protection has a federal nature
The Italian Civil Protection Alerting System is
guaranteed by the
Network of Functional Centers (CF) and
Competence Centers (CC)
CF: operative units in all the Regions, collecting and using all operationally
available data of meteorological, hydrological, hydraulic, volcanic, seismic
matters
CC: research institutions providing services, information, data processing,
technical and scientific advice to support decision making of the Civil
Protection Department

2. Tradi1onal way to manage data
Storage / Database
You can work with data only by (local/remote)
DIRECT ACCESS TO FILE
Hundreds of mimetypes (DXF, TIFF, ECW, JPG, PNG, DEM, CSV, SHP, KML …)

3. The new Standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC)
is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus
standards organization that
is leading the development of standards for
geospatial and location based services.
WMS OGC Open Web Services allow web clients to
(Web Map Service)
WCS Query and Receive geographic
(Web Coverage Service)
WFS information
(Web Feature Service)
… in the form of image, vector, or coverage data.

4. Open Web Services
With OGC web services you can
WMS
WCS
WFS Query and Receive geographic
CSW informa1on
VIA INTERNET
using standards
Desktop Clients / Web Clients

5. geoSDI

6. The geoSDI Programme
geoSDI is a Programme coordinated by the Italian Civil Protection Department
• For implemeting the Civil Protection
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
• According to the provisions of the INSPIRE
Directive
• Using open source software applications.
http://www.geosdi.org
It is developed by the Institute for the Methodologies
of Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the Italian
National Research Council (CNR) with the
collaboration of most of the national civil and military
institutions concerned.

7. The geoSDI Project
geoSDI is also the name of a complete solution for:
• Pre-processing data for creating geoSpatial DataStores
• Managing and providing OGC Web Services (Server Side Components)
• Use OGC Web Services (Client Side Components)

8. Data Work Flow
• Civil and Military Ins1tu1ons collect data with
their own sensors and elaborate them to have
geospa1al products
• Geospa1al data and products are stored with
back‐end geoSDI components for crea1ng OWS
services in each node of the federate network
• OWS services are based on the stored data and
products
• The C.P.Dept. and the other involved ins1tu1ons
can request and work with the whole pool of OWS
available
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9. geoSDI for the C.P.Dept.
The Network of CF and CC share geographic information using geoSDI
Na1onal, Regional geoSDI ERA
and Local authori1es Front‐End
OGC (Client Side)
Data Production Web Services
Providing
geoSDI
Back‐End
(Server Side) Any OGC compliant
Client
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Any authority can use geospa1al services from
Any authority is a geospa1al data provider the whole federa1on through geoSDI ERA or
using the geoSDI back‐end other applica1ons

10. Recent geoSDI cases:
the Abruzzo Earthquake
C.P.Dept Partners produce data
rela1ve to the earthquake
And share them as
OGC Web Services
Using the geoSDI Back‐End
• Orthophoto
• Satellite images
• Meteorological products
• Interferometry images
• Seismic sensors
The geoSDI ERA webGIS applicaCon allows to
• Damage assessment
work with all the geographic infrma1on shared
• …
between the Federate Organiza1ons

11. Recent geoSDI cases:
GeoSpa2al Support for the G8
Italian Civil and Military
ins1tu1ons used geoSDI
components to share geospa1al
services concerning the G8
Summit Area

12. Some Screenshot
Abruzzo Earthquake area of interest and Civil Protec1on structures

13. Some Screenshot
Orthophoto post‐earthquake (look at the tends!!) and regional technical Map

14. Some Screenshot
Data from seismic sensors

15. Some Screenshot
Data from seismic sensors (WFS related info request)

16. Some Screenshot
Data from seismic sensors (WFS related info request)

17. Some Screenshot
Landslide phenomena

18. Some Screenshot
Damaged Buildings

19. Some Screenshot
Seismic sensor and terrain deforma1on from satellite image processing

20. Some Screenshot
Map of the Hydrogeological risk in the G8 Area