CNR-GNDCI - the AVI project

Database AVIBase 3.0

From this page you can download the latest releases of the AVIBase 5.0 database. Files are in Microsoft Access (Office 97) format and are compressed. Each database contains more than 20 tables in a relational structure.

August 2000	Floods	Database in Microsoft Access (Office 97) format
August 2000	Landslides	Database in Microsoft Access (Office 97) format
August 2000	Bibliography	Database in Microsoft Access (Office 97) format

The current versions contain 20.982 records for landslides and 7303 records for floods.

With respect to the August 1999 release:

27 new sources of information, not previously considered, have been sistematically searched;
1003 new records have been added to the landslide database and 366 records have been modified;
141 new records have been added to the flood database and 122 records have been modified;

Detailed information on the database update are available in a Report (in italian).

With respect to the previous releases:

the database was updated for the period 1991-1994;
several S0 forms were added;
consistency tests were performed on several tables;
many typing errors were corrected;
the "Note" field was corrected;
fields containing administrative information (region, province, municipality, etc.) were corrected;
new provinces and municipalities were added/corrected (ISTAT95).

Few tables remain to be validated. Among the others those containing geographic coordinates and the IGMI map references.

A formal check of the completeness of the database against the original paper archive is being performed. Work is due to be completed by the October 1998.

It is possible to retrieve the historical information on landslides and inundation by accessing the GNDCI information system.