DEBRIS PHOS: Debris flow monitoring by photonic sensors: new frontiers of DAS technology

Debris flow monitoring by photonic sensors: new frontiers of DAS technology

The expected increase in extreme meteorological events and related natural hazards is impelling our Society to explore and develop new strategies and technologies to effectively face and manage the associated risks. Among the more active natural hazards threatening the civil society, landslides and debris flows are for sure the most frequent and dangerous ones in mountainous regions, affecting millions of people and causing heavy damages worldwide.

In this perspective, project “DEBRIS PHOS” aims at developing novel fiber optic sensors (FOS) for debris flows monitoring, that could eventually be used to prevent disasters and manage the related emergency. In particular, the project will be focused on Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology going well beyond the state-of-the-art, by implementing a sensor able to monitor the ground vibrations caused by the propagation of the solid-fluid mixture, providing useful information to infer, by means of ML techniques, the rheological characteristic of the flow beside velocity and process dynamics.

Funding source    Italian Ministry of University and Research
(MUR) under Grant PRIN 2022

Total cost 385.463 Euro

Period  2023 – 2025

PARTNERS

CNR-IRPI (coordinator), University of Salerno

Contact  Andrea Galtarossa