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Italy is actively involved, through the promotion and guidance of marine research infrastructures (RIs), to contribute to the European strategy for ocean observation and the ESFRI roadmap. Each RI works autonomously and independently of the others, defining its own rules for access to data and services. This makes access to national marine data complex and fragmented. It is in this panorama that the IT-IOOS was designed, a national platform for the harmonisation of national contributions to marine RIs. IT-IOOS is part of a process of integration of multi-source digital data and their near real time processing for management phases. The system is structured on the concept of ‘information modelling’ to accommodate and manage real physical data on the digital twin and remotely provide all that is needed for decision-making, in ordinary and emergency conditions. They have long since found use and widespread use in a wide variety of sectors, taking the form of genuine decision support and planning systems.
Thanks to the development of WebGis software, it has now become much easier to share this type of information with a potentially unlimited number of users. The objective of a WebGIS DSS (Decision Support System) and the digital twin of the ocean as what-if-scenario is therefore to collect, transform and disseminate information in an ‘intelligent’ way, to help the user make decisions, without however substituting itself for the user; in fact, the decision is obtained by combining human evaluations with the information processed by the system. The IT-IOOS aims to coordinate national observations to improve the quality and interoperability of ocean data (including freshwater river outflows) for three critical topics: climate, operational services and marine ecosystem health. IT-IOOS is designed to incorporate and augment existing ocean observation capabilities through the integration and harmonisation of observations made by RIs.
