1. Development of an integrated application portal for environmental spatial information dissemination in the Nestos river basin
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George C. Zalidis, Nikolaos Karapetsas, Lazaros Misopolinos, Charalampos Skoulikaris, and Charalampos Manesis
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Water resources ,Geographic information system ,Water Framework Directive ,Civil defense ,business.industry ,General partnership ,Environmental resource management ,Environmental science ,Comprehensive planning ,Water quality ,Land cover ,business ,Environmental planning - Abstract
Water resources management is a comprehensive planning process dimensioning all water related components. With this in mind, the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires reliable and continuous water monitoring and collection of qualitative information in order to support decision making concerning water pollution events, focusing primarily on civil protection. The present research study initiates the coupling of water quality - quantity monitoring techniques and telemetric systems with geographic information system (GIS) based map server technologies for the near real time warning about potential water pollution events. The study is being implemented in the Greek part of the transboundary Nestos river basin and forms part of the Bulgarian and Greek European Territorial Cooperation Programme 2007-2013. The aim of this partnership is to develop an operational supportive mechanism for the Competent Authorities of water management in both countries in order to facilitate the planning and implementation of sustainable water management along with civil protection.
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- 2013
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