Innovative decision support system

The coastal ecosystem, as ecotonal zone, is characterized by dynamic factors largely unstable such as natural or anthropological processes, modifying geomorphological, physical and bio-logical features. Erosion, flood and different kind of anthropization (infrastructural, residential, productive and touristic) are just a part of the phenomena that contribute to alter the coastal ecosystem set, characterized by a “time of change” considerably faster than what it was in the last decades.The rapidity of these phenomena lead us not only to analyze and to monitor more frequently, but also to different kinds of “Coastal Zone Managment” that could be adequate to the “times of change” of today.Important results come from resarch projects regarding the coastline and the role that erosion and anthropization processes play in programming and planning coastal morphodynamic de-velopment.Starting from an “opendata” system made by scientific, hystorical, geographical and normative data, incremented by exsisting planning tools and by acquiring the ones that are obtainable by satellite remote sensing, innovative softwares and services to support specialist users have been produced, coming by satellite data of observation of Earth and exploration of Universe.The obtained data represent an important support to bring DSS (“Decision Support System”) in the field of coastal planning.In Coastal Zone Managment phase and in planning phase, obtaining periodically upgradable morphodynamic parameters ensure a global knowledge of the coastal zone, following a multi-disciplinary approach that considers the potential risks and makes easier the development of different solutions