The National Civil Protection System

Mandate of the National Civil Protection System

The National Civil Protection System aims to safeguard human life and health, goods,

national heritage, human settlements and environment from all natural or man-made

disasters. It deals with:

Forecasting and Warning; Prevention and Mitigation; Rescue and Assistance ; Emergency overcoming.

The actors of National Civil Protection System

Directive of 27 February2004 of

the Presidency of the Council (DPCM 27.02.2004)

“Operational directives for the organization and the functional management of national and regional alert systems for hydro-geological and hydraulic risk.”

RISK

Deferred Time Real time

ORDINARY OPERATIVITY

Forecast activity and emergency actions

DCP coordinates the regional and local civil protection structures

DCP provides the guidelines and collaborates with Regional

authorities and scientific research Centres

DPCM 27.02.2004 Functions, tasks and organization of Functional and competence Centres

FORECAST PHASE MONITORING and SURVEILLANCE PHASE

Data assimilation and/or forecast running

Event scenario forecast

Criticality level evaluation

FUNCTIONAL Centres

The managing of the national alerting system is provided by DPC,

by the Regions and by the autonomous Provinces through the

Network of the Functional Centres, as well as by the regional

offices and the Competence Centres, which host functionally

and operatively support this network

National Decision Support System for defence from natural hazard

Regional Functional Centres

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NETWORK

National Functional Centre

CIMA

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National Civil Protection Authority (DPC)

Competence centres

Functional and Competence Centres

The network of the FUNCTIONAL CENTRES must collect, concentrate and integrate:

Qualitative and quantitative data of the monitoring ground

network and satellite platforms for earth observation; Cartographic data;

Non instrumental Information drawn from territorial structures.

Modeling events and effects on population, goods and environment;

Network of the COMPETENCE CENTRES

Competence Centres are operational and/or research organizations. They support the Italian Civil Protection

Department in developing, testing and improving technologies and policies for the mitigation of the social impact of hazards. They operate upon contracts in the

specific field of competence

Functional and Competence Centres

CIMA Foundation is the Competence Centre for the forecast and the prevention of hydrologic,

hydraulic and wild fire risk.

In 2001 we projected the Functional Centre Network and its early warning system

In the operational room we test advanced tools for natural hazard management, in particular for flood and forest fire.

The prototype of operational rooms as experimental laboratory for Functional Centre Network

All the hydrometeorological information are collected in real time to the Operational Room. Scientists enforce research activities to bring up-to-date the scenarios and technological upgrading of operational procedures, of sensing and computational tools, of validation procedures and of the probability of floods, landslides and fires.

Data Base

Certified systems: Dewetra

FRAMEWORK

Research Lab: DROPS

REAL TIME INPUT

Data Base

Libraries upgrading from rersearch activities

The Operational Room and the research virtual lab