G-RISICO: a wild fire risk assessment application running on an advanced grid infrastructure

In the context of the FP6 Project CYCLOPS (Cyber-infrastructure for CiviL protection Operative ProcedureS) the application used by the Italian Department of Civil Protection for Wild Fires Risk Assessment, named RISICO, has been ported on top of the EGEE Grid Infrastructure. A layer of services for enhancing the Grid middleware (with notification functionalities) and for geospatial data sharing (implementing standard interfaces based on the Open Geospatial specifications) has been developed.