Background
Italy is an extremely fragile territory, widely exposed to hydrogeological hazards affecting anthropic infrastructures and the natural environment. In this scenario, geomorphological maps, including the representation of the spatial distribution of landforms, have been used for a long time for the description of processes acting on the Earth’s surface. Geomorphological maps should represent the basic tool for the assessment of geomorphological hazards and the initiation of any management and mitigation strategy. Unfortunately, suffering from temporal and scale resolution, traditional geomorphological maps are rarely used either for risk management and mitigation processes or territorial zonation and planning. The use of external datasets, such as those including recognition of ground deformation phenomena or those containing erosion features, partially oriented the geomorphological maps towards a quantitative description of landforms.
Purpose
The project aims to promote the implementation of new approaches for the description of geomorphological processes and the representation of landforms, as a useful tool for surveying the areas most affected by geological hazards for land use planning purposes. Nowadays, the available geomorphological maps are configured as ‘static’ tools that suffer from the problem of the representativeness of phenomena in terms of temporal resolution and scale. The main aim is to implement new paradigms for geomorphological mapping, in which the results of traditional geomorphological survey models are integrated with several Remote Sensing technologies, useful for the classification of landforms and the creation of digital geomorphological maps.
Methods
Implementation of new paradigms for geomorphological mapping, in which the results of traditional geomorphological survey models are integrated with multi-band, multi-sensor satellite analyses and the analysis of products derived from LiDAR and UAV acquisitions, converging in a Web-GIS environment for the classification of landforms and the creation of digital geomorphological maps. The objective is to analyze and assess the evolution of landforms and in particular landslide phenomena and surface deformation processes in different physiographic contexts, distributed across the Alpine and Apennine environments.
