2016 - The role of GFOSS in environmental protection: the Arpa Piemonte experience

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The role of GFOSS in environmental protection:
the Arpa Piemonte experience

Arpa Piemonte is the Regional Environmental Protection
Agency of Piedmont (Italy)
Arpa is public body with own administrative, technical-
juridical, asset management and accounting purposes
Arpa Piemonte
25.000 Sq Km

to prevent, reduce and eliminate pollution
to address environmental problems according to integrated
multidisciplinary approach
to provide information and training activities regarding the
conditions of the environment
The aim of our agency
Prediction and prevention of anthropic risks and natural
risks
Measuring activities for purposes of conformity checks
Water, soil and air quality monitoring
Reports on the environment conditions
Our activities

WASTE
SOIL
NATURAL RISKS
PHYSICAL AGENTS
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
AIR
WATER
WEATHER
WORK ENVIRONMENT
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES
ECOSYSTEMS AND LANDSCAPES
URBAN ENVIRONMENT
CONTAMINATED SITES
NATURAL CONSERVATION
MICRO-POLLUTANTS
Environmental protection is in our nature

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Test
phase
Basic
cartography
Weather
Radar
Geology
historical
data
Landslides
inventory
Water
Framework
Directive
Asbestos
Dams
River works
Seismic
zoning
Environmental
monitoring
Geology base
map
Satellite data Territorial planning
Telephone
and radio
stations
Alluvial fan
Geotechnical data
Flood risk
Landslide
monitoring
Piezometric
network
Database timeline
ESRI licence fee
converted to training
(about 50 persons)
Post-earthquake
assesment of
building

Database location
3 master/slave replica PostgreSQL 9.3
PostGIS 2.1 about 160Gb
Biella
Ubuntu 14.04
Server 64 bit
Cuneo
Torino

Table and record
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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50000000
100000000
150000000
200000000
250000000
300000000
350000000
400000000
450000000
500000000
record
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
table
geographical
Half in users are in
multiuser editing

Pro Cons
GIS multiediting
Flexibility
Easy to use
Power spatial analysis
Multiple installation
Replica
Well documented
Raster management
Geodatabase

e.g. landslide studing needs to analyze a lots of different kind of data:
Monitoring data
Borehole and geotechnical data
Hystorical and archive data
Field survey infromation
Data interconnection in a geodatabase
We try to automatise as much as as possible all repeating spatial
analysis.
After geometry digitalization Postgres derive the main statistics,
like:
Permanent scatterers movement data;
Landslide interaction with good, buildings and facilities
Other data such as boreholes, monitoring systems, landuse, rainfall
data ecc..

Complex symbolgy

Complex geometry

Pro Cons
●
Easy to use
●
Full integration with PG/PGIS
●
Advanced styling
●
Atlas printer management
●
Powerful form editor
●
Python
●
Sharing instruments with
external users
●
Stability
●
Processing is not well integrated
●
Poor integration with Spatialite
QGIS

Huge infrastructure projects
Builders of huge infrastructure require
very structured monitoring plans, that last
for several years
thousands of measurements taken every
month, seldom every week
data from must be shared and accessible
to all colleagues
analysis and reports on weekly, monthly
and annual basis

Data organization
The database contains:
master data infrastructure
master data monitoring
Description of Monitored
environmental components
Description of measurement
points
Values of measures
With data you can:
To manage time schedule
compliance
To avoid twice measures
To highlight data anomalies

What do we measure
Monitored environmental components
Water (river and underground water);
Air (PM10, Nox, etc….);
Noise (from traffic and from construction site);
Asbestos;
Ionizing radiations (from rocks);
Soils;
Vegetation;
Fauna.
Every measure has its geographic information: Point, line,
polygon

Other instruments
Raster analysis and
topological controls
Statistical analysis
Vector analysis
Raster and Vector
transformations

Open source improvements
BUG FIXES
More than 30 bugs
CORE FUNCTIONS
Python macros
Style in database

Open source improvements (2)
PLUGINS
PS Time Series Viewer
Processing PS Tools provider
Processing Permaclim provider
ARPAP Spatial report
Form value relation
OTHER
Python chart tool
ROAM/Intramaps
GPS Tracking
Field notes
Graphic design on notes

Less than 30K € in six years
What we could have done with the same
budget with proprietary software?
Open source improvements (3)

The real strength of GFOSS: ERIKUS
Centro Italia 24/08/2016 a 6.0 Mw earthquake

ERIKUS
ERIKUS is a QGIS project to help to collect data on evaluation of the
buildings after an earthquake.
It was tested during a simulation test on 3 municipalities at june
2016.
After the “Centro Italia earthquake” DPCN asks to use it on the field.
Now more than 70 municipalities collect data with ERIKUS.
LAN with
PostgreSQL
Standalone
on shapefile

ERIKUS: data entry
QT forms on
QGIS

ERIKUS: reports
For the
inspection
teams
Administrative
instances

ERIKUS: data collection
The municipalities submit data for Arpa Piemonte in order to collect,
to make formal controls, to create the entire area database

ERIKUS: dissemination
WMS/WFS services
Web reports

ERIKUS uses only open source software
QGIS Server

Luca is working in the CRA municipality
emergency
Computer Room
Customers care service
Midnight QGIS training party
...during the emergency

Pros and cons
PROS CONS
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
GDAL/OGR
Multiuser editing
QGIS
QGIS Processing Provider (GRASS,
SAGA...)
Layout manager
Form editor
User friendly
Too many releases sometimes astonish
basic user and IT manager
QGIS mindumps
PostgreSQL/PostGIS raster functions

the future...
• RASTER
•
RASDAMAN
• PostgreSQL/PostGIS
•
Routing
•
Address matching
•
Local gazeteer
•
2.5/3D
• Webgis
•
Leaflet
•
Lizmap
•
Qgis server

Website www.arpa.piemonte.gov.it
Bulletins www.arpa.piemonte.gov.it/bollettini/elenco-bollettini
Twitter @ArpaPiemonte
Relations with the pubblic Free phone number 800 518 800
App download from “Google Play Store”
Geoportale webgis.arpa.piemonte.it/geoportale/
Disseminating environmental
informations

Roberto CREMONINI, Luciano CRUA, Romina DI PAOLO,
Riccardo GAETA, Luca LANTERI
OBRIGADO!
Special thanks to
The ERIKUS Team
Erika CERIANA MAYNERI, Luca LANTERI, Stefano CAMPUS, Carlo
TROISI, Paola BERNARDELLI, Carlo ROAGNA, Max SENESI

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