Manager: Sandro Nardi (ad interim)
Telephone: +39 071 808334
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The ASSAM Agrometeorological Operational Centre aims at providing specialized assistance to agricultural enterprises to support territorial planning and land management. The operative activity implies monitoring the main agrometeorological variables (temperature, rainfall, leaf wetness, relative humidity, etc..) by means of a network of monitoring stations spread all over the Region as well as of the phenology and of the main phytosanitary issues concerning crops such as grapevine, olive, fruits and cereals.

Moreover, to better plan crops protection, the operational centre disseminates daily weather forecasts and publishes reports on particular climate-related events.
The data of such monitoring are presented in the agrometeorological bulletin providing farmers with the most relevant technical information on the agronomic and phytosanitary measures applicable on the regional crops.

Structure
The ASSAM Agrometeorology Operational Center is structured as follows:

• Organizational Unit: Agrometeorology Specialist Support
  Manager: Angela Sanchioni
  Telephone: +39 0721 896222
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  The Unit offers Agrometeorology specialist support in implementing NAP (National Action Plan) – sustainable use of Plant Protection Products. It is coordinated by the “Specialist advice, Certification, Control, Surveillance and Laboratory” operational center.
  Moreover the Unit is in charge of: the regional weather report, the tasks related to weather changes, the agrometereological fulfilment of the main regional, national and EU legal regulations.
  
  It manages the weather data collection and processing, manages the weather database and develops local short- and long-term weather forecasts addressed to the farming and rural sector (weather bulletin and web site).
  
  It coordinates, maintains and renews the ASSAM weather station network.
  
  
• Agrometeorology weather station network: 72 electronic stations accessible via a GSM network;
• Data processing centre (CED): data collection, validation and storage. Development of informative products also related to weather forecasts;
• Local agrometereological centers (CAL): operative structures of the provinces Pesaro, Ancona, Macerata and Ascoli-Fermo: agrophenological and epidemiological monitoring of the main crops; information editing and dissemination addressed to farm enterprises and technicians.