OPENALP Permanent Naturalistic Alpine Observatory: a way to increase the alpine land value

OPENALP® is the result of a co-financed project, supported by the European Fund of Regional Development Community Initiative Interreg IIIA Italy-Austria - VEN111072. The cooperation between Agordina Mountain Community, Mining Industrial Technical Institute "U. Follador" of Agordo (BL) and CNR-IDPA, produced an Informative System regarding the Agordino area, with ESRI® software. GIS techniques use to environmental data management has been introduced among the "U. Follador" Institute teaching activities. The OPEN-ALP project was born to establish a reference in order to benefit on several levels of detailed and elaborated information dealing about geo-scientific, touristic, natural, popular, cultural, etc. sources. Agordino is a cultural unit land rich in natural and cultural elements, it is a good prototype to set-up the observatory, but the model for an environmental and cultural-tourism can be achieved and easily exported wherever they find a structure able to support it: it is applicable within each cultural unity of the Alpine region, aimed at enhancing scientific and cultural cooperation with explicit or potential fallout on tourism. OPEN-ALP WebGIS technology allows one to visualize and distribute the results of the analysis, enabling it to be easily accessed by those looking for environmental, geo-cultural or geo-tourism information, but also technicians can find quantitative spatial data. Interdisciplinary data relating to the territory are often not in digital form or not compatible among them; when the information is processed in a system aligned with international standards, the problem, although complex, is solved. Interoperability between OPENALP® and TIRIS® (Tiroler Raumordnungs-Informations System), guarantees datatransfer without any conversion. OPENALP® is published through GfMaplet®, developed by Globo s.r.l., consultable at the address: www.openalp.org