Alessandro Sarretta
Alessandro Sarretta is a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), since 2019 in the Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, in Padua, previously at the Institute of Marine Sciences, in Venice. He deals, in marine/coastal and now geomorphological fields, with environmental data management and processing, Spatial Data Infrastructures, implementation of Decision Support Systems, standards and interoperability of research data. He is interested and involved in various fields of "openness", from open source software to open science, open knowledge and participatory mapping.
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This work examines OpenStreetMap as an open interoperability layer for Alpine torrent control structures (e.g., check dams, bed sills), aligning the waterway=check_dam tagging schema with published hydro-geomorphic risk indices (e.g., PFI, MPi, SCR). A snapshot across European countries reveals very low schema adoption and attribute completeness; a conflation pilot against the regional database of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region (Northeastern Italy) establishes the first OSM-to-cadastre benchmark in this domain.