Man produced events

The increased frequency of industrial accidents and malicious attacks in the last decades has evidenced clearly the high vulnerability of edifices, infrastructures and life-lines to not forecasted events. Governments, State agencies and private companies managing public structures acknowledge that the security of buildings, infrastructures, lifelines and transport networks are now a priority.
Security can be significantly increased by preventive actions, including the strengthening of structures and any action aimed at decreasing the vulnerability. However identifying in real time possible damage sources and the characteristics of the dangerous event propagation can significantly reduce the impact of the event.
AMRA has built and expertise in real time actions. It collaborates with national and international research institutions and agencies to optimize synergies and application of results. A major weakness of security actions is the lack of coordination among different actions.
In this context AMRA can offer the experience gained by its scientific staff in the early warning and management of natural risks. This experience can be valuable because natural and anthropogenic risks share some common features, such as:

AMRA can offer a large experience in the hardware, fast signal processing real time scenarios, information diffusion.

AMRA can detect and forecast the path of pollutants and dangerous substances at sea by real time measurements of the shallow currents’ velocity vector parameters using a network of HF coastal radars. A prototype system is operating in the Bay of Napoli.
AMRA faces problems related to the time evolution of pollutants in air, water and soils, using:

AMRA developed also electromagnetic detectors able to identify dangerous substances through walls
and barriers.



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