General Information
In the framework of the National Operational Programme 2007-13 “Research and Competitiveness”, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the Ministry of Research (MIUR) financed the project “AN INTEGRATED SYSTEMS FOR HYDROGEOLOGICAL RISK MONITORING, EARLY WARNING AND MITIGATION ALONG THE MAIN LIFELINES” with acronym LEWIS (Landslides Early Warning Integrated System). The project includes industrial research, at site tests and training activities with a two year master programme at postgraduate level. University of Calabria and Autostrade Tech are the main partners of the project, Strago and TD Group are the other industrial partners, together with Universities of Firenze and Catania as research partners, and the Interuniversity Consortium on Hydrology (CINID) as partner in the Master organization. The project aims to develop an integrated, innovative and efficient solution to manage risk issues associated to landslide prone infrastructures, by developing and testing a system able to timely identify potentially dangerous landslides, and to activate all needed measures for impact mitigation, including the information delivery. The system includes many components: standard criteria for evaluation and mapping landslides susceptibility; monitoring equipment for measuring the onset of landslide movement; telecommunication networks; mathematical models for both triggering and propagation of landslides induced by rainfall; models for risk scenario forecasting; a centre for data acquisition and processing; a traffic control centre.
