Preamble
The projects selected for the Good Practice report
represent a good illustration of innovative
applications of telematics for the environment. Nine
projects were supported by the Telematics
Applications Programme - Environment Sector and
ESPRIT programmes. They have strictly focused on
specific environment telematics applications
tailored to selected users in different European
sites. The other projects here considered were not
involved in these specific technology programmes
but they have nevertheless demonstrated how
telematics tools may help to perform and achieve
specific environmental protection targets, involving
different actors at different geographic scales both
in Europe and in the CEE countries.The areas of application of most of the projects focus on one main environmental domain (air quality or water resource management). However, for some of the projects, the categorisation in one specific environmental domain is not applicable, because of their versatility in several application domains. Therefore, the structure of this document has considered the experience of each project without any specific division between air and water domains, by providing the description of good practice for the whole cluster of sixteen projects.
The structure of this chapter is provided by some main elements of the Good Practice form. A more detailed description of each project is provided within the Virtual Gallery, where the information provided by each project is complementary to that provided in the following sections of this chapter. In the project descriptions within the gallery more attention has been given to the technical/operational characteristics of each project.
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
