ARGO-EDSS: sistema di supporto alle decisioni ambientali per la gestione di eventi inquinanti in ambienti marini = ARGO-EDSS: Environmental Decision Support System for the management of marine pollution Events

An Environmental Decision Support System, ARGO-EDSS, has been developed to aid the detection, prevention and management of oil spills in marine areas. The system manages heterogeneous data, acquired by a monitoring network of sensorized resources. The multisource data (satellite SAR images, environmental data acquired on buoys, marine traffic information) are processed to detect possible oil spills and, also, apply models for risk analysis, so as to identify areas with high risk of accident and improve their monitoring. To this end, ARGO-EDSS includes a so-called ARGOGeomatrix, which is a predictive model for Bayesian risk estimation. ARGO-EDSS is, also, meant to support the management of detected oil spills, by supplying specific suggestions according to intervention and recovery protocols, agreed with the Italian Coastguard Headquarters and the Coastguards of the National Park of the Tuscany Archipelago (Italy) and the National Marine Park of Zakynthos (Greece).