IRON-DB: a database for the Italian Radon mOnitoring Network

The IRON
-
DB was developed in 2016 in order to support operation of IRON, the Italian Radon
mOnitoring Network. IRON is a network of permanent, continuously operating, real
-
time radon monitoring
stations, developed and implemented in Italy in the past 7 yea
rs [Cannelli et al., submitted]. The network
represents, at present, the first Italian regional
-
scale infrastructure for a systematic and continuous
monitoring of radon emissions (see for example [Piersanti et al., 2015; Cannelli et al., 2016; Piersanti et
al.,
2016]). IRON presently consists of 19 stations, mainly
located
in the Central
-
Southern Apennines, but
marginally covering the whole Italian peninsula (Figure 1). Owing to the evolution of IRON network since
2009, in terms of instrumentations, differe
nt type of installation and overall of a large number of continuous
measurements, it was necessary to implement a database
allowing
access to all the collected data and to keep
track of the evolution of the network.

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Roma1, Roma, Italia