This is why the view from above can make the difference, be it from a drone, a helicopter, a Tornado or a Predator, equipped with technologies developed for environmental monitoring.
Thanks to sensors capable of observing the environment using bands of the solar spectrum, of light, outside the visible, including for example the infrared, and by mounting these instruments now on an aircraft, it is possible to carry out surveillance and reconnaissance actions. throughout the Italian territory, explains Lega.
This, combined with an intelligence logic that the military forces have developed over the years to counter risks of a very different nature, are already highlighting a reality of criminal actions that is far more complex than that often represented in the media. “Acting without intelligence means putting in place improvised processes,” says De Angelis.
You block a fire, perhaps, but you don’t understand the whole mechanism behind it, to the point of possibly predicting the moves of those who intend to commit a crime. The Predator can locate a target, such as a potential litter heap, and monitor it for hours and then days, observing how the site is altered during each phase.
Lands of national fires
Thanks to a path of reconnaissance, data collection and then analysis, “we understood the process”, says Lega and this is the intent of what he calls Forensic Environmental Engineering which now, also thanks to the skills of the Air Force, can become a tool effective in the hands of institutions to counter the burning of waste.