Gter has secured funding for the research and development project named ASUR, which will run for 18 months under the POR FESR LIGURIA 2021-2027 call – “Support for the implementation of research and experimental development projects for companies associated with research and innovation hubs.”

Through this initiative, the Liguria Region, via FILSE, aims to direct industrial research, experimental development, and technology transfer efforts towards technologies with a greater impact on the production system—those closer to market application with a high TRL level—as well as towards strategic areas for economic development and competitive positioning, as outlined in the Smart Specialisation Strategy.

The ASUR project, entirely managed by Gter in collaboration with the CNR, falls within the field of territorial safety, with a particular focus on hydrogeological risk and, specifically, hydraulic modeling. This is a particularly relevant issue in the Ligurian and Italian context in general. Moreover, Liguria, and especially Genoa, offer numerous significant and suitable cases for the development and testing of new methodologies.

The project will develop a comprehensive 3D surveying technique for all urban sections of culverted streams, which, as is well known, pose significant risks. Genoa is a city with many culverted streams, and the Liguria Region has long sought to survey the river mouths to enable complete, accurate, and reliable hydraulic modeling. These surveys are currently highly complex, often incomplete, and generally unreliable.

The immediate impact of the ASUR project is to provide, first and foremost to the Genoese and Ligurian territory—though applicable to any similar context—the tools and procedures necessary to collect 3D data in the most comprehensive, fast, and reliable way possible.