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Article

A Technical-Thematic Civil Protection Exercise in Italy: UAS Fleets-Based Activities Supporting Emergency Response in Seismic Scenarios

by
Martina Mandirola
1,*,
Chiara Casarotti
1,
Umberto Morra di Cella
2,3,
Andrea Berton
4,
Guglielmo Rossi
5,
Carlo Tacconi Stefanelli
6,
Alessandro Menin
7 and
Onofrio Lorusso
8
1
European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy
2
International Centre on Environmental Monitoring, Via A. Magliotto 2, 17100 Savona, Italy
3
Environment Protection Regional Agency of Aosta Valley, Loc. La Maladière 48, 11020 Saint-Christophe, Italy
4
Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
5
Centro per la Protezione Civile, University of Florence, Piazza San Marco 4, 50121 Florence, Italy
6
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Via G. la Pira 4, 50121 Florence, Italy
7
ARPA Lombardia—Earth Observation Regional Center, Via Rosellini 17, 20124 Milan, Italy
8
Lombardy Regional Fire Brigade Directorate, Via Ansperto 4, 20123 Milan, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(12), 5306; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app14125306
Submission received: 10 May 2024 / Revised: 11 June 2024 / Accepted: 17 June 2024 / Published: 19 June 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue UASs Application in Emergency)
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Abstract

In October 2023, during the Italian Civil Protection Week, in Eastern Lombardy (Italy) a large technical-thematic seismic exercise called “EXE.Lomb.Est 2023” was organized, with the goal of testing the response of the Regional Civil Protection system for post-earthquake damage assessment activities. Within this context, the use of an unmanned aerial system (UAS), in particular the deployment of multi-rotors UAS teams, has been tested as support for the rapid mapping of a large area involving the simultaneous participation of different Italian institutions with UAS units. Coordinated flight planning design, safety issues, coordination and communication procedures, data management and delivery of the results are some of the main aspects investigated and presented in this work.
Keywords: civil protection; multi-rotor unmanned aerial system (UAS); rapid mapping; coordinated flight strategy; tactical and strategical risk mitigations civil protection; multi-rotor unmanned aerial system (UAS); rapid mapping; coordinated flight strategy; tactical and strategical risk mitigations

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Mandirola, M.; Casarotti, C.; Morra di Cella, U.; Berton, A.; Rossi, G.; Tacconi Stefanelli, C.; Menin, A.; Lorusso, O. A Technical-Thematic Civil Protection Exercise in Italy: UAS Fleets-Based Activities Supporting Emergency Response in Seismic Scenarios. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 5306. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app14125306

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Mandirola M, Casarotti C, Morra di Cella U, Berton A, Rossi G, Tacconi Stefanelli C, Menin A, Lorusso O. A Technical-Thematic Civil Protection Exercise in Italy: UAS Fleets-Based Activities Supporting Emergency Response in Seismic Scenarios. Applied Sciences. 2024; 14(12):5306. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app14125306

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Mandirola, Martina, Chiara Casarotti, Umberto Morra di Cella, Andrea Berton, Guglielmo Rossi, Carlo Tacconi Stefanelli, Alessandro Menin, and Onofrio Lorusso. 2024. "A Technical-Thematic Civil Protection Exercise in Italy: UAS Fleets-Based Activities Supporting Emergency Response in Seismic Scenarios" Applied Sciences 14, no. 12: 5306. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app14125306

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