InDAGIS-MODE&APP project. A first assessment after one year in the field of medical geography, public health, precision preparedness through some applied demonstrations

This paper provides a first assessment of the work carried out in the framework of the InDAGISMODE& APP project, having two main objectives and thematic areas strongly characterised by applied interdisciplinary perspectives through GIS applications: the first one is related to medical geography, public health, precision preparedness for the management of emergencies; the second one is referred to the relationships between geography and literature, geography and archaeology, geography and history, geography and linguistics, digital humanities. In particular, we show and discuss some applied demonstrations produced with reference to the first objective and thematic area, and for this purpose we have selected three examples with reference to: - a dashboard which makes it possible to geolocate and geovisualise the cases of COVID-19 recorded in Rome from February 25th to September 26th 2020; - a distancemetric map with concentric circular zones starting from the Tmb plant of Malagrotta (western suburbs of Rome) where a fire broke out on 15th June 2022; - a webApp which makes it possible to geolocate the Sapienza University semiautomatic external defibrillators (AEDs) and search for the AED closest to a starting point. Moreover, we provide some considerations regarding further activities in the perspectives of applicative-intersectoral research, laboratory didactics and third mission. With reference to other examples of interdisciplinary applied research, we show some ArcGIS Pro elaborations produced for the geolocation and three-dimensional representation of the Sapienza buildings, starting from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy and developing a procedure which could be replicated to cover the whole campus, creating a profitable connection among geography (and geography of safety), engineering and architecture, public health, workplace safety, risk prevention and protection etc.