Protecting infrastructures from natural and anthropogenic hazards: the EISAC.it initiative

The aim of the work is to provide an overview of the ongoing actions in Italy in the area of technology developments and their use for supporting the protection of national infrastructure from natural and anthropogenic hazards. EISAC.it is the name of the Italian node of the European Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Centre (EISAC). The EISAC.it initiative results from a joint ENEA and INGV collaboration agreement established in 2018 in the frame of art.15 of the Italian Law 241/1990. EISAC.it gathers a number of technologies useful for an operational risk analysis of infrastructure. Among them, Remote Sensing techniques, and in particular, Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) has a central role for the accurate measurement of centimetric or millimetric movements affecting the infrastructures and their environment. A purposely devised DSS (Decision Support Systems) platform, called CIPCAST, provides a technological platform which, gathering results coming from the scenario application of different observation measurements and of their correlated application, realizes an effective tool for the stakeholders and the decision makers