Rio de la Plata and its Maritime Front Environmental Information System and Portal: tools used and lessons learned

Abstract

Paper presented at the Sixth Water Information Summit: Breaking The Barriers Let Water Information Flow! Waterweb Consortium and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre September 9-12 Delft, The Netherlands 2003. Describes the aims, development and functions of the Integrated Information System of the FREPLATA Project and the creation of the Rio de la Plata and its Maritime Front Portal, a cooperative Internet gateway to environmental and spatial information on the Rio de Plata region. The FREPLATA project is a cooperative activity of 18 institutions in Argentina and Uruguay. The Project and institutions with suitably trained personnel designed, developed and implemented databases, applications and standards which enable the systematization of information and constitute tools for management and decision-making.

Development and validation of a storm surge forecasting/hindcasting modelling system for the extensive Río de la Plata Estuary and its adjacent Continental Shelf

“…1) were provided by the SHN of Argentina and the Servicio Oceanográfico, Hidrográfico y Meteorológico de la Armada (SOHMA) of Uruguay. Most of the time series used in this work cover the years 2002-2003, when an important international project took place on the region (Himschoot et al 2004). Palermo and Oyarvide are the only stations with longer periods of observations, from 1905 and 1992 to present for Palermo and Oyarvide, respectively.…”

Conception And Development Of A System Used To Organize And Facilitate Access To Environmental Information

“…Use of EIS allows for the better management of multiple environmental information, supporting public and private organization managers (Tachizawa & Pozo, 2010;Whitford, 2009;Cserny, Kovacs, Domokos, & Redey, 2009;Vijay, et al, 2009;Yang, et al, 2009;Wang, Zhou, Yang, & Zhao, 2008;Wang & Zhu, 2008). Within that scope, the use of EIS could be considered, both for public policy makers and the general population, in order to avoid or mitigate environmental issues (Cserny, Kovacs, Domokos, & Redey, 2009), including the public disclosure of information related to the environment (Himschoot, Férnandez, Arciet, Goldsmith, & Fabricant, 2004). These authors talk about an EIS prepared for the FREPLATA project, for environmental protection of Rio da Prata (between Argentina and Uruguay) and its beachfront, which refers to contamination control and recovery of habitats.…”