Applied methodology for information on areas damaged by forest fires
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The Province of Bologna has been equipped with a forestal cartography containing information that defines the vegetal features and the forestal population found throughout the territory and that guarantees information on forestal viability and the forestal areas covered by fire.
The scope of the cartography was fixed by the staff of the Corpo Forestale dello Stato, and uses GPS (Global Positioning System).
The presentation given during the workshop introduced the system used to identify different levels of damage within the forestal areas affected by fires and the data obtained as a result of the system.
Thanks to the parameters selected for the GPS-instruments and the efficient application of the methods used to acquire positions in a relief phase, it was possible to obtain highly reliable output data.
Moreover, the data obtained in this specific way remained correct as a result of different post-processing simulations, and if necessary, in the event of multipath errors, they were manually controlled.
The purpose of this work was to locate and isolate the recorded areas exposed to fire.
The resulting cartography was integrated into the Province Territory Information System. Information was also made available on a web-site.
Newsletter 7 on Workshop 6: Risk management and training
