The SPESS project has been carrying out the realization of an accurate system for survey and forecast the Ultra Violet radiations (UV), coping with the times series data, and dealing with the geographic and demographic diversities. The global aim is to promote the security of the workers, to sustain the environmental education, to inform, especially among the younger, about the danger coming from the long exposition to the UV rays, during the outside activities.
Therefore the island of Sardinia, Italy, should be recognized as a reference laboratory for Mediterranean basin and as a place of parameters standardization for solar rays.
The project’s specific aims faced to the integration of geoinformation and the environmental monitoring. The main intent has been to pursue and to solve the following issues:
Health Issue
• Standardization of reference parameters, concerning the outdoor workers, whether for the exposure levels or for the protection systems;
• introduction of a clear article in the European security legislation;
• tumor prevention.
Information issue
• To inform the different kind of consumer, whether tourist agencies or hotel associations, either public agencies;
• to visualize the spreading of possible noxae, thanks to the relational database, able to merge geoinformations, related to the space and to the time.
A Web-GIS system has been developed, in order to visualize, to inform and to publish the result in a friendly environment. A detailed bulletin will be daily published on the web, reporting the warning level for the UV exposition, and it will be soon available for the web surfers

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