PRISMA (acronym for Prima Rete per la Sorveglianza sistematica di Meteore e Atmosfera, i.e. first network for the systematic surveillance of meteors and atmosphere) is a project started in 2016 composed by an Italian network of all-sky cameras for the observation of bright meteors (fireballs and bolides), in order to get the orbits of native objects and to identify with a good degree of approximation the target areas for the eventual recover parts of the meteorites itself.
In Figure 1 you can see the cameras relocation and in Figure 2 a bolide image from the Piombino camera (2022/02/02)
Systematic monitoring of cloud cover and electrical activity will be used for the validation of meteorological models.
The collected data in a systematic way will contribute to the improvement of the models of cosmic objects and their interaction with the atmosphere which still have many gaps due to the poor quality of the observational data.
PRISMA is an open project and a collaboration of people coming from different professional and amateur contests in continuous increase (55 in January 2022) and it is coordinated by Daniele Gardiol, researcher of the Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, supported by a Project Office and by an Advisory Committee.
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Figure 1: PRISMA cameras relocation map. Credit: GoogleMaps.

Figura 2: a bolid image from Piombino camera (2022/02/02). Credit: PRISMA.
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