RMN - Rete Mareografica Nazionale
The entrance in vigor of the L.
183/89 on the defense of the ground and of the two DPR 85/91 and
106/93 have sanctioned the birth and characterized the tasks of
the Dipartimento per i Servizi Tecnici Nazionali (DSTN) in the
within of the Prime Minister's Office. From this event the Servizio
Idrografico e Mareografico nazionale (SIMN) has received an impulse
that, beyond promoting of an incisive action in the properly hydrographical
field, has considerable widened the activities in the marine field
of it. Task of the SIMN is to supply to the systematic relief
and to the elaboration of the parameters relative to the marine
climate, the state of shorelines and the levels navy, to supply
to the systematic publication of the elements observed and elaborate
and cartography and to predispose criteria, methods and standard
of collection, analysis and consultation of the data relative
to the cognitive activity carried out. The SIMN supplies data,
opinions and advisings to anyone who request them and support
the local agencies and the other public agencies and the agencies
of public right. In the marine field the SIMN has assumed the
management of the Rete Ondometrica Nazionale (RON), realized opportunely
from the Ministry of the Public Jobs, and has supplied to the
restructure of the Rete Mareografica Nazionale (RMN).
Currently the Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA - i.e. the Higher Institute for the Protection and Environmental Research) is in charge of of the network.
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