The aim of this project is to develop a computerised Integrated Contaminated Sites Management Support System (CSMSS) to assist experts in planning, environment and other fields in remediating, assessing, registering and rein-stating sites which may have been contaminated through previous use, for example, industrial or landfill purposes. The System will hold graphics for maps, photographs, and text on procedures for testing and analysis, methods of remediation, results obtained and cross-references to standards for investigation, clean-up and re-use of sites. It will assist users by analysing sites and suggesting methods and levels of reinstatement, linking into existing computer record and analysis facilities in cities.
Point of Contact:
Barry Doyle, GIS Consultant
ESBI Computing Ltd.
Stephen Court, 18/21 St. Stephen's Green
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: (353-1) 703-8047
Fax: (353-1) 661-8455
ECOSIM - Ecological and Environmental Monitoring and Simulation System for Management Decision Support in Urban Areas
ECOSIM serves as a support system for investigating and forecasting pollution levels in urban areas. By allowing the effects of industrial developments or new roads to be quickly and easily examined, public authorities can ensure that the environmental impact is fully considered in their urban plans. With ECOSIM they can also forecast shorter-term pollution levels - typically over a 24 hour period.
Point of Contact:
Florian Hauser
Environmental Software & Services GmbH (ESS GmbH)
Kalkgewerk 1
A-2352 Gumpoldskirchen, Austria
Tel: (43-2252) 633-050
Fax: (43-2252) 633-059
E-mail: fhauser@ess.co.at
http://www.ess.co.at/ECOSIM
EMAIL - Environmental Management Architecture for Information Delivery
The purpose of EMAIL is to develop telematics applications that support decisionmakers in regional public organi-sations in the environment sector. The applications support these users in environmental monitoring and planning by combining and using data captured from different sources. This information is converted into standardised for-mats, and integrated on a multimedia platform containing an integrated set of tools for modeling, mapping, analysis and reporting.
Point of Contact:
Emilio Bugli Innocenti, R&D Manager
Analysis Automation Trading (AAT), R & D Division
14, Via S. Spirito
I-50125 Florence, Italy
Tel: (39-55) 289-352
Fax: (39-55) 289-341
E-mail: ebi@acm.org
http://www.prato2.ing.unifi.it/email
EFFECT - Environmental Forecasting for the Effective Control of Traffic
EFFECT helps to predict poor local air quality in real time and to initiate effective traffic demand management measures to reduce pollution levels in particular problem areas. This is achieved through establishing Local Envi-ronmental Management Boards, and integrating air quality models with real-time information on traffic flows, pol-lutant concentrations and meteorological conditions, thereby identifying pollution "hotspots". Successful traffic de-mand management strategies help reduce pollution levels at the hotspot.
Point of Contact:
Nick Hodges, Special Project Officer
Leicester City Council,
Environment and Development Dept.
York House, 91 Granby Street
Leicester LEI 6FS, United Kingdom
Tel: (44-116) 247-0522
Fax: (44-116) 255-7997
E-mail: nhodges@lccatc.demon.co.uk
http://www.effect.gr
ENVIROCITY - Public Environmental Information Services for European Cities
EnviroCity delivers useful environmental information to the urban public. By aggregating and integrating different levels of heterogeneous information into a synthetic picture, it delivers this to the public by two methods: in response to queries from public PC-terminals, and by projection onto large city information panels. The system is based on existing Geographical Information System and database query technologies, and the Internet-WWW. Information for input to the EnviroCity system is taken from existing municipal databases and other sources.
Point of Contact:
Markus Spring
Munich Department of Environment
City of Munich
Bayerstrasse 28 A
D-80335 Muenchen, Germany
Tel: (49-89) 2332-3597
Fax: (49-89) 2332-8344
E-mail: markus.spring@mindless.com
http://www.envirocity.com
TEMSIS - Transnational Environmental Management Support and Information System
TEMSIS provides a trans-national environmental information network, through which public participation in the environmental decisionmaking process can be facilitated. By informing citizens about day-to-day changes in their local environment, and presenting it in central places like City Halls or through media like the Internet, TEMSIS looks to help citizens as well as experts within administrations in their discussions as to how sustainable development can be achieved.
Point of Contact:
Bernd Hoffmann, TEMSIS Project Coordinator
Dt. Forschungszentrum f.Künstl.
Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI)
Stadtverband Saarbrücken, AMT 61
Schlossplatz, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, Geb. 43.1
D-66119 Saarbrücken, Germany
Tel: (49-681) 506-533
Fax: (49-681) 506-820
E-mail: behoffman@aol.com
http://www-temsis.dfki.uni-sb.de
WATERNET - Distributed Water Quality Monitoring using Sensor Networks
Since in many parts of Europe, river water is a major source of drinking water, treatment plant operators are faced with the more and more difficult task of determining water quality and deciding whether to use the available resources or not. At the other end of the process, wastewater treatment plants have to apply more scrutiny to the water quality of their outlets. It is the objective of WaterNet not only to provide the users with a suitable technology, but to demonstrate the usability and appropriateness of newly developed methods in real-life applications. It aims to show that both operators and authorities will be helped by intelligent aggregation and simplification of the vast amount of available environmental measurement data. The emphasis of WaterNet is on:
Point of Contact:
Albert Mpe A Guilikeng, Project Manager
CITI-Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux
59, av. Emile Thiebaut
F-78110 Le Vesinet, France
Tel: (33-1) 3015-4036
Fax: (33-1) 3976-0293
E-mail: ampe@citi.suez-lyonnaise-eaux.fr