Abstract
<p><em>For several years, the </em><em>Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia</em><em> (INGV, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) uses ArcGIS Online (</em><a href="http://www.arcgis.com/"><em>www.arcgis.com</em></a><em>), to share information about the real-time seismicity in Italy with other geographical data, geological and seismological, through the development of different WebGIS applications with various customized functionalities. During the earthquake emergency in Central Italy in August 2016, WebGIS applications have been widely used. They derive from a common platform developed a few months earlier by the LABGIS of INGV-Irpinia.</em> <em>This platform has enabled the management and updating of the seismic data of the sequence in real time and their integration with the leading INGV databases seismological and seismotectonic and those of other Institutes.</em> <em>Moreover, these applications have permission to manage and share information and even data from the activities of the INGV Emergency Groups , such as the location and characteristics of seismic and accelerometric temporary stations installed by the teams of SISMIKO and EMERSITO and the geological observations from the EMERGEO Group.</em></p>
Highlights
The Cloud-GIS is the combination of running GIS software and services on cloud infrastructure and accessing GIS capabilities using the web
ArcGIS Online allows the management of different types of geographic data and geospatial applications, made available directly from ESRI or from community of ESRI users around the world
The major worldwide centers of seismic monitoring have invested a lot of resources on the sharing of this information in real time through the development of web applications for general users based on digital maps and geographic services
Summary
The Cloud-GIS is the combination of running GIS software and services on cloud infrastructure and accessing GIS capabilities using the web. One of the most widely used cloud platforms by GIS users worldwide is ArcGIS Online, developed by ESRI and available on http://www.arcgis.com, is the cloud-based sharing system "ready to use" that allows a user to build a complete GIS, containing maps and applications, with the possibility of access to a large collection of basic geographical data with worldwide coverage (ESRI Basemaps). This Cloud-GIS allows for creating maps and Web applications and sharing with different types of users by creating public or private working groups. ArcGIS Online (Figure 1) allows you to manage and import a large quantity and diversity of information with geographic component from desktop GIS (ESRI shapefile), other GIS software, online resources such as the OGC map-services (WMS, WFS), Google Maps and Google Earth formats (KML and KMZ) and even simple text files and tabular data such as CSV and TXT
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