Funded by the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security, the project plans to implement interventions for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Cinque Terre National Park area. In particular, the project implements technological innovation interventions aimed at supporting forest fire management and prevention.
The Cinque Terre National Park, established in 1999, represents a protected natural area with a typical Mediterranean environment. The prevention of forest fires is an important aspect of the protection of this area: for this reason, the project includes both the construction of a fire prediction and prevention facility and the strengthening of the meteorological monitoring network, so that conditions that may favor a fire ignition can be better assessed.
As part of the project, CIMA Research Foundation designs a system of technological innovation for forest fire prediction and prevention activities, with the definition of the most suitable places for the installation of monitoring instrumentation (such as phenocams and meteorological stations); we also realizes the platform for the visualization of collected data and the infrastructure necessary to send information on fire risk in the infopoints and traffic light panels for tourists that will be installed during the project. We also deal with the training of forest carabinieri on the use of drones for surveying environmental parameters in case of fire and data processing for fire management and risk reduction purposes.
