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Forest fires are one of the most dangerous events, causing serious land and environmental degradation. Indeed, besides the loss of a huge quantity of plant species, the effects of fires can go far beyond: desertification, increased risk of landslides, soil erosion, death of animals, etc. For these reasons, mathematical models able to predict fire spreading are needed in order to organize and optimize the extinguishing interventions during fire emergencies. This work presents a new system to simulate and predict the movement of the fire front based on free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies and the Rothermel surface fire spread model, with the adjustments made by Albini. We describe the mathematical models used, provide an overview of the GIS design and implementation, and present the results of some simulations at Etna volcano (Sicily, Italy), characterized by high geomorphological heterogeneity, and where the native flora and fauna may be preserved and perpetuated. The results consist of raster maps representing the progress times of the fire front starting from an ignition point and as a function of the topography and wind directions. The reliability of results is strictly affected by the correct positioning of the fire ignition point, by the accuracy of the topography that describes the morphology of the territory, and by the setting of the meteorological conditions at the moment of the ignition and propagation of the fire.
Michele Mangiameli; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Annalisa Cappello. Forest Fire Spreading Using Free and Open-Source GIS Technologies. Geomatics 2021, 1, 50 -64.
AMA StyleMichele Mangiameli, Giuseppe Mussumeci, Annalisa Cappello. Forest Fire Spreading Using Free and Open-Source GIS Technologies. Geomatics. 2021; 1 (1):50-64.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichele Mangiameli; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Annalisa Cappello. 2021. "Forest Fire Spreading Using Free and Open-Source GIS Technologies." Geomatics 1, no. 1: 50-64.
We propose a new GIS‐based procedure to retrieve archaeological elements using satellite remote sensing. The processing of multispectral satellite images consists in a preprocessing phase using the pansharpening technique to improve the spatial quality and in the exploitation of linear equations of the initial spectral bands with the aim of generating accurate and precise raster data that can be used as input for an object classification. The proposed methodology has been tested in an archaeological area located on the north‐west flank of Etna volcano (Sicily, Italy).
Michele Mangiameli; Alessio Candiano; Gabriele Fargione; Andrea Gennaro; Giuseppe Mussumeci. Multispectral satellite imagery processing to recognize the archaeological features: The NW part of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy). Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 2019, 43, 7640 -7646.
AMA StyleMichele Mangiameli, Alessio Candiano, Gabriele Fargione, Andrea Gennaro, Giuseppe Mussumeci. Multispectral satellite imagery processing to recognize the archaeological features: The NW part of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy). Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences. 2019; 43 (13):7640-7646.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichele Mangiameli; Alessio Candiano; Gabriele Fargione; Andrea Gennaro; Giuseppe Mussumeci. 2019. "Multispectral satellite imagery processing to recognize the archaeological features: The NW part of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)." Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 43, no. 13: 7640-7646.
Andrea Gennaro; Alessio Candiano; Gabriele Fargione; Michele Mangiameli; Giuseppe Mussumeci. Multispectral remote sensing for post‐dictive analysis of archaeological remains. A case study from Bronte (Sicily). Archaeological Prospection 2019, 26, 299 -311.
AMA StyleAndrea Gennaro, Alessio Candiano, Gabriele Fargione, Michele Mangiameli, Giuseppe Mussumeci. Multispectral remote sensing for post‐dictive analysis of archaeological remains. A case study from Bronte (Sicily). Archaeological Prospection. 2019; 26 (4):299-311.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrea Gennaro; Alessio Candiano; Gabriele Fargione; Michele Mangiameli; Giuseppe Mussumeci. 2019. "Multispectral remote sensing for post‐dictive analysis of archaeological remains. A case study from Bronte (Sicily)." Archaeological Prospection 26, no. 4: 299-311.
It has been largely proven that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a valuable tool as Decision Support System (DDS) for the assessment and management of environmental hazards. In this work we used the GIS technologies to simulate scenarios associated to possible tsunamis in the Ionian Sea, involving the territory of Acireale (Catania), in East Sicily (Italy). In particular, we implemented a literature model for the propagation of tsunamis using free and open source GIS technologies. Our GIS modelling has been used to identify the inhabited areas and the loose of efficiency of roads possibly interested by the tsunami. For this reasons, the approach can be an efficient DSS for civil protection purposes, providing a prompt answer for the identification and management of people’s risk condition.
Michele Mangiameli; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Salvatore Oliva. Free and Open Source GIS Technologies for the Assessment of Tsunami Hazards in the Ionic Sea. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 216 -224.
AMA StyleMichele Mangiameli, Giuseppe Mussumeci, Salvatore Oliva. Free and Open Source GIS Technologies for the Assessment of Tsunami Hazards in the Ionic Sea. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():216-224.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichele Mangiameli; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Salvatore Oliva. 2019. "Free and Open Source GIS Technologies for the Assessment of Tsunami Hazards in the Ionic Sea." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 216-224.
Biomasses are materials of organic origin that can be used for the production of energy. Among the renewable energy sources, a prominent role is played by woody biomass, which can be retrieved from existing forests or plantations governed in short or middle rotation coppice, the so-called Short and Medium Rotation Forestry. The main environmental benefit resulting from the use of wood biomass consists in the fact that the amount of carbon dioxide released during their combustion process is the same as that absorbed during the development phase. Here, we propose a procedure to manage the traceability of short biomass chains and to schedule the activities for mobile forest construction sites using free and open-source GIS technologies. Firstly, we created a spatial DB to manage the areas where the cutting and logging activities are performed. Then, we overlapped the boundaries of areas with the cadastral sheets to ensure the biomass comes from short chain, i.e., within the range of 70 km from the position of the central. To plan the number of working days required and make an estimation of the production, the total area of the lots, the land clearing, and the net area were calculated. Finally, depending on the characteristics of wooded areas, the type of system to be used for the business of cutting and logging was evaluated. This work demonstrates how GIS allows a fast traceability of short biomass chains and an estimation of the production by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of biomass resource assessment.
Michele Mangiameli; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Paolo Roccaro; Federico G. A. Vagliasindi. Free and open-source GIS technologies for the management of woody biomass. Applied Geomatics 2019, 11, 309 -315.
AMA StyleMichele Mangiameli, Giuseppe Mussumeci, Paolo Roccaro, Federico G. A. Vagliasindi. Free and open-source GIS technologies for the management of woody biomass. Applied Geomatics. 2019; 11 (3):309-315.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichele Mangiameli; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Paolo Roccaro; Federico G. A. Vagliasindi. 2019. "Free and open-source GIS technologies for the management of woody biomass." Applied Geomatics 11, no. 3: 309-315.
A rockfall analysis at one of the most relevant cultural heritage sites of northeastern Sicily (Italy) is presented herein with the aim of assessing the hazard arising from the unstable conditions of the rock cliff of Taormina city, upon which the Saracen Castle is perched on its top. Several rockfalls affected this area in the latest years, representing a serious threat for the safety of inhabitants and tourists. Therefore, the qualitative Evolving Rockfall Hazard Assessment (ERHA) was applied for the hazard zonation, supported by rock mass surveys and Terrestrial Laser Scanner prospecting. Kinematic analysis revealed that the unstable rock failure patterns are represented by planar/wedge sliding and toppling, while simulation of potential rockfalls allowed studying the impact of future events in terms of trajectory and energy. This is higher at the foot of scarps and in steeper sectors, where the application of ERHA identified a critical zone close to the inhabited center, which is one of the main elements at risk, along with a pedestrian tourist path. Achieved results represent a starting point for the definition of risk management strategies and provide a scientific contribution to the study of hazard and risk arising from rockfall occurrence.
Simone Mineo; Giovanna Pappalardo; Michele Mangiameli; Santo Campolo; Giuseppe Mussumeci. Rockfall Analysis for Preliminary Hazard Assessment of the Cliff of Taormina Saracen Castle (Sicily). Sustainability 2018, 10, 417 .
AMA StyleSimone Mineo, Giovanna Pappalardo, Michele Mangiameli, Santo Campolo, Giuseppe Mussumeci. Rockfall Analysis for Preliminary Hazard Assessment of the Cliff of Taormina Saracen Castle (Sicily). Sustainability. 2018; 10 (2):417.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSimone Mineo; Giovanna Pappalardo; Michele Mangiameli; Santo Campolo; Giuseppe Mussumeci. 2018. "Rockfall Analysis for Preliminary Hazard Assessment of the Cliff of Taormina Saracen Castle (Sicily)." Sustainability 10, no. 2: 417.
Giovanni Muscato; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Michele Mangiameli. A WebGIS platform for mobile robot navigation developed with free and open source software. Second International Conference on Advances in Information Processing and Communication Technology - IPCT 2015 2015, 30 -34.
AMA StyleGiovanni Muscato, Giuseppe Mussumeci, Michele Mangiameli. A WebGIS platform for mobile robot navigation developed with free and open source software. Second International Conference on Advances in Information Processing and Communication Technology - IPCT 2015. 2015; ():30-34.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Muscato; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Michele Mangiameli. 2015. "A WebGIS platform for mobile robot navigation developed with free and open source software." Second International Conference on Advances in Information Processing and Communication Technology - IPCT 2015 , no. : 30-34.
A wide series of events requires immediate availability of information and field data to be provided to decision-makers. An example is the necessity of quickly transferring the information acquired from monitoring and alerting sensors or the data of the reconnaissance of damage after a disastrous event to an Emergency Operations Center. To this purpose, we developed an integrated GIS and WebGIS system to dynamically create and populate via Web a database with spatial features. In particular, this work concerns the gathering and transmission of spatial data and related information to the desktop GIS so that they can be displayed and analyzed in real time to characterize the operational scenario and to decide the rescue interventions. As basic software, we used only free and open source: QuantumGIS and Grass as Desktop GIS, Map Server with PMapper application for the Web-Gis functionality and PostGreSQL/PostGIS as Data Base Management System (DBMS). The approach has been designed, developed and successfully tested in the management of GIS-based navigation of an autonomous robot, both to map its trajectories and to assign optimal paths. This paper presents the application of our system to a simulated hydrological event that could interest the province of Catania, in Sicily. In particular, assuming that more teams draw up an inventory of the damage, we highlight the benefits of real-time transmission of the information collected from the field to headquarters.
M. Mangiameli; G. Mussumeci. REAL TIME INTEGRATION OF FIELD DATA INTO A GIS PLATFORM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HYDROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 2014, XL-5/W3, 153 -158.
AMA StyleM. Mangiameli, G. Mussumeci. REAL TIME INTEGRATION OF FIELD DATA INTO A GIS PLATFORM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HYDROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 2014; XL-5/W3 ():153-158.
Chicago/Turabian StyleM. Mangiameli; G. Mussumeci. 2014. "REAL TIME INTEGRATION OF FIELD DATA INTO A GIS PLATFORM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HYDROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES." The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XL-5/W3, no. : 153-158.
The theme of the simulation of hydrogeological risk with GIS technology is analyzed with focus on the modeling of the architecture of a Spatial Data Base to support risk analysis and on the construction of a specialized frame with free and open source software. For this purpose a model of analysis of the vulnerability of roads developed by (Cafiso et al., 2002) has been adopted. The case of study is represented by a seismic land characterized by steep slopes and frequent instability phenomena. In detail, the area of interest is a mountainous land in Sicily with a city, Enna (about 30 000 people), that lies on the top. The access to the city is assured by few and very winding roads which are also highly vulnerable to seismic and hydrogeological hazards. The loss of efficiency of these roads for exceptional rainfall events should compromise timeliness and effectiveness of rescue operations. The data of the sample area have been implemented in the specialized GIS appositely constructed in order to forecast the possible damage to roads and the results of some simulations have been related to the effects registered after some extreme events, obtaining useful indications for the validation of the approach.
M. Mangiameli; G. Mussumeci. GIS APPROACH FOR PREVENTIVE EVALUATION OF ROADS LOSS OF EFFICIENCY IN HYDROGEOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 2014, XL-5/W3, 79 -87.
AMA StyleM. Mangiameli, G. Mussumeci. GIS APPROACH FOR PREVENTIVE EVALUATION OF ROADS LOSS OF EFFICIENCY IN HYDROGEOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 2014; XL-5/W3 ():79-87.
Chicago/Turabian StyleM. Mangiameli; G. Mussumeci. 2014. "GIS APPROACH FOR PREVENTIVE EVALUATION OF ROADS LOSS OF EFFICIENCY IN HYDROGEOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES." The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XL-5/W3, no. : 79-87.
Unmanned Ground Vehicles can be a useful tool to help operators in humanitarian demining. However in many difficult environments autonomous operations are impossible and moreover it can be really difficult to teleoperate the robot from an onboard camera. This work presents an architecture to allow cooperation between a ground robot and a quadrotor UAV. The UAV can autonomously follow the ground robot, by using an image processing algorithm. In this way aerial images are provided that can help trajectory planning in rough environments, via a developed webGIS platform.
Luciano Cantelli; Michele Mangiameli; C.D. Melita; G. Muscato. UAV/UGV cooperation for surveying operations in humanitarian demining. 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2013, 1 -6.
AMA StyleLuciano Cantelli, Michele Mangiameli, C.D. Melita, G. Muscato. UAV/UGV cooperation for surveying operations in humanitarian demining. 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR). 2013; ():1-6.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLuciano Cantelli; Michele Mangiameli; C.D. Melita; G. Muscato. 2013. "UAV/UGV cooperation for surveying operations in humanitarian demining." 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) , no. : 1-6.
Michele Mangiameli; Giovanni Muscato; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Cristina Milazzo. A GIS application for UAV flight planning. IFAC Proceedings Volumes 2013, 46, 147 -151.
AMA StyleMichele Mangiameli, Giovanni Muscato, Giuseppe Mussumeci, Cristina Milazzo. A GIS application for UAV flight planning. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 2013; 46 (30):147-151.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichele Mangiameli; Giovanni Muscato; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Cristina Milazzo. 2013. "A GIS application for UAV flight planning." IFAC Proceedings Volumes 46, no. 30: 147-151.
The autonomous navigation of a robot can be accomplished through the assignment of a sequence of waypoints previously identified in the territory to be explored. In general, the starting point is a vector graph of the network consisting of possible paths. The vector graph can be directly available in the case of actual road networks, or it can be modeled, i.e. on the basis of cartographic supports or, even better, of a digital terrain model (DTM). In this paper we present software procedures developed in Grass-GIS, PostGIS and QGIS environments to identify, model, and visualize a road graph and to extract and normalize sequence of waypoints which can be transferred to a robot for its autonomous navigation.
Michele Mangiameli; Giovanni Muscato; Giuseppe Mussumeci. Road network modeling in open source GIS to manage the navigation of autonomous robots. 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS 2013: ICNAAM 2013 2013, 1224 -1227.
AMA StyleMichele Mangiameli, Giovanni Muscato, Giuseppe Mussumeci. Road network modeling in open source GIS to manage the navigation of autonomous robots. 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS 2013: ICNAAM 2013. 2013; ():1224-1227.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichele Mangiameli; Giovanni Muscato; Giuseppe Mussumeci. 2013. "Road network modeling in open source GIS to manage the navigation of autonomous robots." 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS 2013: ICNAAM 2013 , no. : 1224-1227.
After the observation of cases of malignant pleural neoplasm in Biancavilla (Catania, Italy), a new asbestiform fiber, named fluoro-edenite (NaCa2Mg5(Si7Al)O22F2), was found in a stone quarry use for local building industry and in the lung tissue of an 86 years old woman who died from pleural mesothelioma. As a consequence the Italian Ministry of the Environment has included the Biancavilla site in the National Priority List. In this study, a point of view on the results from a large scale environmental monitoring program conducted for the implementation of the site investigation is presented. The obtained dataset from the environmental monitoring program results in more than 3,000 values of concentration of asbestos like fibers and fluoro-edenite fibers in air, water and top soil. These data are spatially and temporally distributed in the Biancavilla site, therefore the development and application of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was very useful to review, manage and analyze the obtained data and to give direction to the stakeholders in order to define the required remediation activities. A WebGIS was also developed to provide a rapid GIS access and data management by various control bodies.
Daniele Famoso; Michele Mangiameli; Paolo Roccaro; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Federico G. A. Vagliasindi. Asbestiform fibers in the Biancavilla site of national interest (Sicily, Italy): review of environmental data via GIS platforms. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology 2012, 11, 417 -427.
AMA StyleDaniele Famoso, Michele Mangiameli, Paolo Roccaro, Giuseppe Mussumeci, Federico G. A. Vagliasindi. Asbestiform fibers in the Biancavilla site of national interest (Sicily, Italy): review of environmental data via GIS platforms. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology. 2012; 11 (4):417-427.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDaniele Famoso; Michele Mangiameli; Paolo Roccaro; Giuseppe Mussumeci; Federico G. A. Vagliasindi. 2012. "Asbestiform fibers in the Biancavilla site of national interest (Sicily, Italy): review of environmental data via GIS platforms." Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology 11, no. 4: 417-427.