An Interactive WebGIS Framework for Coastal Erosion Risk Management

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Cristina Monterisi¹  Leonardo Damiani¹  Eufemia Tarantino¹  Alessandra Capolupo¹  Alessandra Saponieri²  Renata Archetti³  Fabio Addona⁴ 

[1] Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Construction and Chemistry (DICATECh), Politecnico di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy;Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Ecotekne, 73047 Lecce, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica Ambientale e dei Materiali (DICAM), University of Bologna, 40131 Bologna, Italy;Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research-Building and Construction (CIRI-EC), University of Bologna, 40131 Bologna, Italy;

关键词: webmapping;    IoT;    remote sensing;    3D visualization mode;    coastal risk assessment;   

DOI  :  10.3390/jmse9060567

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Italian coastline stretches over about 8350 km, with 3600 km of beaches, representing a significant resource for the country. Natural processes and anthropic interventions keep threatening its morphology, moulding its shape and triggering soil erosion phenomena. Thus, many scholars have been focusing their work on investigating and monitoring shoreline instability. Outcomes of such activities can be largely widespread and shared with expert and non-expert users through Web mapping. This paper describes the performances of a WebGIS prototype designed to disseminate the results of the Italian project Innovative Strategies for the Monitoring and Analysis of Erosion Risk, known as the STIMARE project. While aiming to include the entire national coastline, three study areas along the regional coasts of Puglia and Emilia Romagna have already been implemented as pilot cases. This WebGIS was generated using Free and Open-Source Software for Geographic information systems (FOSS4G). The platform was designed by combining Apache http server, Geoserver, as open-source server and PostgreSQL (with PostGIS extension) as database. Pure javascript libraries OpenLayers and Cesium were implemented to obtain a hybrid 2D and 3D visualization. A user-friendly interactive interface was programmed to help users visualize and download geospatial data in several formats (pdf, kml and shp), in accordance with the European INSPIRE directives, satisfying both multi-temporal and multi-scale perspectives.

【 授权许可】

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