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A Night at the OPERA: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Distributed Sensor Network-Based System to Figure out Safety Protocols for Animals under Risk of Fire †

Large scale wildfire events that occurred around the world involved a massive loss of animal lives, with a consequent economic impact on agricultural holdings and damages to ecosystems. Preparing animals for a wildfire evacuation requires an extra level of planning, preparedness and coordination, wh...

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Autores principales: Tamburis, Oscar, Giannino, Francesco, D’Arco, Mauro, Tocchi, Alessandro, Esposito, Christian, Di Fiore, Giorgio, Piscopo, Nadia, Esposito, Luigi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7249212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32365698
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092538
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author Tamburis, Oscar
Giannino, Francesco
D’Arco, Mauro
Tocchi, Alessandro
Esposito, Christian
Di Fiore, Giorgio
Piscopo, Nadia
Esposito, Luigi
author_facet Tamburis, Oscar
Giannino, Francesco
D’Arco, Mauro
Tocchi, Alessandro
Esposito, Christian
Di Fiore, Giorgio
Piscopo, Nadia
Esposito, Luigi
author_sort Tamburis, Oscar
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description Large scale wildfire events that occurred around the world involved a massive loss of animal lives, with a consequent economic impact on agricultural holdings and damages to ecosystems. Preparing animals for a wildfire evacuation requires an extra level of planning, preparedness and coordination, which is missing in the current practice. This paper describes a conceptual framework of an ICT system implemented to support the activities of the Regional Veterinary referral Center for non-epidemic emergencies (CeRVEnE) in the Campania Region for the twofold objectives. On the one hand, it realizes the monitoring of the wooded areas under risk of fire in the so-called “Mount Vesuvius’ red zone”. On the other hand, it determines the OPtimal Evacuation Route for Animals (OPERA) in case of fire, for each of the reported animal species living in the mentioned red zone. The main innovation of the proposed system lies in its software architecture that aims at integrating a Distributed Sensor Network (DSN), an ad-hoc software to generate timely simulations for fire risk modeling, and a GIS (Geographic Information System) for both the activities of web mapping and OPERA definition. This paper shows some effective preliminary results of the system implementation. The importance of the system mainly lies in its accordance with the so-called “Foresight approach” perspective, that provides models and tools to guarantee the prevention of systematic failure in disaster risk management, and becomes moreover critical in the case of Mount Vesuvius, which hosts a unique combination of both animal and anthropic elements within a delicate natural ecosystem.
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spelling pubmed-72492122020-06-10 A Night at the OPERA: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Distributed Sensor Network-Based System to Figure out Safety Protocols for Animals under Risk of Fire † Tamburis, Oscar Giannino, Francesco D’Arco, Mauro Tocchi, Alessandro Esposito, Christian Di Fiore, Giorgio Piscopo, Nadia Esposito, Luigi Sensors (Basel) Article Large scale wildfire events that occurred around the world involved a massive loss of animal lives, with a consequent economic impact on agricultural holdings and damages to ecosystems. Preparing animals for a wildfire evacuation requires an extra level of planning, preparedness and coordination, which is missing in the current practice. This paper describes a conceptual framework of an ICT system implemented to support the activities of the Regional Veterinary referral Center for non-epidemic emergencies (CeRVEnE) in the Campania Region for the twofold objectives. On the one hand, it realizes the monitoring of the wooded areas under risk of fire in the so-called “Mount Vesuvius’ red zone”. On the other hand, it determines the OPtimal Evacuation Route for Animals (OPERA) in case of fire, for each of the reported animal species living in the mentioned red zone. The main innovation of the proposed system lies in its software architecture that aims at integrating a Distributed Sensor Network (DSN), an ad-hoc software to generate timely simulations for fire risk modeling, and a GIS (Geographic Information System) for both the activities of web mapping and OPERA definition. This paper shows some effective preliminary results of the system implementation. The importance of the system mainly lies in its accordance with the so-called “Foresight approach” perspective, that provides models and tools to guarantee the prevention of systematic failure in disaster risk management, and becomes moreover critical in the case of Mount Vesuvius, which hosts a unique combination of both animal and anthropic elements within a delicate natural ecosystem. MDPI 2020-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7249212/ /pubmed/32365698 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092538 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tamburis, Oscar
Giannino, Francesco
D’Arco, Mauro
Tocchi, Alessandro
Esposito, Christian
Di Fiore, Giorgio
Piscopo, Nadia
Esposito, Luigi
A Night at the OPERA: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Distributed Sensor Network-Based System to Figure out Safety Protocols for Animals under Risk of Fire †
title A Night at the OPERA: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Distributed Sensor Network-Based System to Figure out Safety Protocols for Animals under Risk of Fire †
title_full A Night at the OPERA: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Distributed Sensor Network-Based System to Figure out Safety Protocols for Animals under Risk of Fire †
title_fullStr A Night at the OPERA: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Distributed Sensor Network-Based System to Figure out Safety Protocols for Animals under Risk of Fire †
title_full_unstemmed A Night at the OPERA: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Distributed Sensor Network-Based System to Figure out Safety Protocols for Animals under Risk of Fire †
title_short A Night at the OPERA: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Distributed Sensor Network-Based System to Figure out Safety Protocols for Animals under Risk of Fire †
title_sort night at the opera: a conceptual framework for an integrated distributed sensor network-based system to figure out safety protocols for animals under risk of fire †
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7249212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32365698
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092538
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