An Interoperable, GIS-oriented, Information and Support System for Water Resources Management

Abstract

Abstract-Important objectives of the four-year enviroGRIDS project encompass the improvement of transnational cooperation, the use of state of the art Information and Communication Technologies for data analysis and sharing and the application of environmental models for monitoring present and predicting future states of the environment for the Black Sea region. In such a transnational context, there is a dire need for the environmental sciences to evolve from a simple, local-scale vision toward a complex, multi-user, multilayered holistic approach. BASHYT (http://swat.crs4.it/) is a Web based, GIS oriented, information and support tool, part of the Black Sea Catchment -Observation System (BSC-OS). It exposes a set of applications for data management, analysis and visualization and a complete server and client side development framework (wiki like) to create Web contents. The core of the portal relies on the hydrological semi distributed SWAT code to model the water cycle and predict the effect of management decisions on water, sediment, nutrient and pesticide yields on large river basins. Furthermore, BASHYT aims at quantifying the interconnectedness between (human and natural) pressures and states of water body receptors at different space and time scales. The aim is to enhance environmental management capacity to assess water resource and to share and process large amounts of key environmental information. Within an experimental and innovative programming environment, modules have been developed to run near real-time applications based on numerical solvers (SWAT is just one example), run pre-and post-processing codes, query and map results through the Web browser. A set of web OGC services and a complete Application Programming Interface (API) are also exposed by the portal. We expect to improve the ways in which land management systems can operate and improve model usability to aid in making management decisions and watershed-scale modeling.

Bringing GEOSS Services into Practice: A Capacity Building Resource on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI)

“…In particular this can be also helpful for users of a specific scientific community to participate in an initiative like GEOSS and use what is in GEOSS to develop a tailored application targeting the needs of a specific community, e.g. Community portals (Cau et al ; Gorgan et al ).…”

SCOPED‐W: SCalable Online Platform for extracting Environmental Data and Water‐related model outputs

“…SWAT has been utilized in the framework of the FP7 enviroGRIDS project (Cau et al, ; Giuliani et al, ; Gorgan et al, ; Lehmann et al, ) to simulate the water quantity and water quality of the Black Sea catchment with an area of 2 million km 2 over a 40‐years period at a high spatial resolution and daily time step. The area of the catchment was divided into 12,982 sub‐basins (Rouholahnejad, Abbaspour, Srinivasan, Bacu, & Lehmann, ).…”

An Information System for Integrated Land and Water Resources Management in the Kara River Basin ( Togo and Benin )

“…The JavaScript Library jQuery (http://jquery.com), the extension jQuery UI (http://jqueryui.com), the CSS-framework Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com) and some additional JavaScript Libraries are used for the front end. XML-files are used as description layers to generate different forms to view, search, edit and interlink stored datasets (for more detail see [16,20]).…”

“…The main modules of RBIS are summarized in Figure 1. Figure 1: RBIS primary components [16] In order to prevent unauthorized data manipulation or download access, RBIS offers a very fine grained user and permission management as one of its administrative core functionalities.…”

“…[19]. This paper presents the OTI River Basin Information System (Oti RBIS) implemented based on the River Basin Information System (RBIS) software package [10,16] and describes its potential as a platform for sustainable water resources management in the KRB.…”