An Interactive WebGIS Framework for Coastal Erosion Risk Management

The Italian coastline stretches over about 8350 km, with 3600 km of beaches, representing a significant resource for the country. Natural processes and anthropic interventions keep threatening its morphology, moulding shape triggering soil erosion phenomena. Thus, many scholars have been focusing their work on investigating monitoring shoreline instability. Outcomes such activities can be largely widespread shared expert non-expert users through Web mapping. This paper describes performances WebGIS prototype designed to disseminate results project Innovative Strategies Monitoring Analysis Erosion Risk, known as STIMARE project. While aiming include entire national coastline, three study areas along regional coasts Puglia Emilia Romagna already implemented pilot cases. was generated using Free Open-Source Software Geographic information systems (FOSS4G). platform by combining Apache http server, Geoserver, open-source server PostgreSQL (with PostGIS extension) database. Pure javascript libraries OpenLayers Cesium were obtain hybrid 2D 3D visualization. A user-friendly interactive interface programmed help visualize download geospatial data in several formats (pdf, kml shp), accordance European INSPIRE directives, satisfying both multi-temporal multi-scale perspectives.