The ENVIBASE-Project

EIS Name
No name given

In Use Since
1996

Institution and Contact
Municipality of Athens, Town Planning Department
Katy Micha

Functional Extent
Geographical data was recorded through "tablet digitisation" and scanning. The basic objects are "buildings" and their uses. Neighbourhood analyses e.g. land usage analyses for chosen areas, agreed the analytical part of the principal functional extent.

Number and Type of Users
The EIS was used predominantly within the work group. There were five specialist users with general data processing skills.

Technical Applications
Used with ArcInfo, ArcView with Windows 95 on two PC’s. Specific data was managed in INFO, a more specialised databank was not in use. It was not a Client-Server application.

Development of the EIS
On the basis of the finished product additional modules were developed for data entry and map layouts. The development was carried out jointly between the Town Planning Department and the Technical University in Athens.

Costs
45 000 ECU was invested in software and hardware. The costs for data investigation amounted to 390 ECU/ha, totalling 1.2 million ECU. Costs for development work on the GIS module were about 13 000 ECU.

EIS Name
Umweltinformationssystem Berlin (EIS Berlin)

In Use Since
1985

Institution and Contact
Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, Umweltschutz und Technologie
Bettina Fellmer

Functional Extent
The EIS Berlin maintained and updated the fundamental data on environmental potential, pollution pressure and impact. The basis for the EIS are, amongst others, the digital maps of the "Umweltatlas Berlin". With help from data processing support with propagation computation, interpolation and with simulation modelling, new map information was calculated. The EIS Berlin data and information form the basis for the publication of environmental information in an analogue environment atlas, on a CD-ROM and in the Internet.

Number and Type of Users
The EIS was used within the work group (totalling 14 employees, either GIS specialists or other specialists with general data processing skills) and also used in the Senate by other groups for information and processing (city planning, landscape planning, soil protection).

Data Sources/Data Suppliers
The basic topographical data came from the administration themselves; about 70% of the thematic content came from public institutions and about 30% from private offices or university.

Technical Applications
The GIS system was used on SICAD and YADE and the data bank on ORACLE, MS-ACCESS and dBase. The hardware was varied and consisted of stand alone PC’s, NT-Sever, UNIX workstations, PC-Clients, graphic workstations and graphic terminals.

Development of the EIS
The application development was awarded in the most part for the first years to private offices. In the last years, the EIS Berlin was taken in house for maintenance and future development.

Costs
The initial investment in hardware, software and application development in the first year amounted to 1 million ECU. For data investigation and maintenance an amount yearly of about 650 000 ECU and for future development and maintenance about 450 000 ECU yearly.

Publication and Dissemination
The data and information were published in analogue form (e.g. Environment Atlas) on a CD-ROM and in the Internet. Digital geographical data was passed on to users in the public and private sectors.

EIS Name
NEBULA

In Use Since
1996

Institution and Contact
Regione Lombardia
Nicola Quaranta

Functional Extent
NEBULA is an application using expert systems from other working groups or authorities (e.g. Sistema Informativo Trasporti & Mobilita/S.I.Tra.M and SIT/ Sistema Informativo Territoriale) brought together by object orientated technology. By interrogating the databank, the user can construct individual maps.

Number and Type of Users
The system is at the moment only situated within the working group, but should become in general use in the Lombardy Region. It will also be used in the Emilia- Romagna Region. The users are specialists with general database knowledge.

Data Sources/ Data Suppliers
The data sources are the expert information systems. The system uses object orientated tools (IDL, FORTE) for the access to the specialist system.

Development of the EIS
Development of the NEBULA system was followed through in principal by the authority’s working group.

Costs
The investment costs in hardware, software and application development amounted to about 2 million ECU, the costs for data acquisition and data investigation about 1 million ECU and the costs for future developments an additional 250 000 ECU.

Publication and DisseminationThe results were published as plots, printed maps and in environmental reports. Users were from the public institutions or the private sector. Charges were not collected.

EIS Name
SIT Sistema Informativo Territoriale

In Use Since
1986

Institution and Contact
Regione Lombardia
Sergio Urbisci

Functional Extent
Topographical data for the Lombardy region was entered in digitally in vector form in all the relevant scales and instructions made from either vector or grid data. The system offered extensive GIS functions e.g. from complex data investigations through interpolation functions to a cartographic design.

Number and Type of Users
The users predominantly number GIS experts, but are also specialists with general database skills. The system is used both within the working group and by other administrative departments.

Data Sources/ Data Suppliers
The topographical data was taken from private firms on the instructions of the administration. The data is provided by the administration.

Technical Applications
The system is used with Arc/Info and ArcView and expansions. This system is connected to an ORACLE databank based on Unix.

Development of the EIS
The development of this system was followed through in principal by the authority’s working group and external contractors.

Costs
The yearly budget amounted in 1997 to 500 000 ECU for investment in hardware and software areas, 1 million ECU for the development and maintenance of the data as well as an additional 1 million ECU for other departments.

Publication and Dissemination
The maps from SIT were passed onto the display screens, produced as plots, printed maps and as a CD-ROM for other administrations and also for private firms. These maps formed the basis for regional GIS and for various specialist information systems.

EIS Name
MOS - PRG (Mosaico degli Strumenti urbanistici comunali)

In Use Since
1994

Institution and Contact
Regione Lombardia
Paolo Tacchino

Functional Extent
This application, manages, analyses and evaluates the data of land usage in pixel and vector form. The fundamental principles are derived from satellite and vector data, site photos as well as statistical data. The digitisation from vector data followed on from the "display screen digitalisation". Buffering/zoning, overlays and unions as well as neighbourhood analyses are the important analytical methods.

Number and Type of Users
The users are mostly GIS experts but are also specialists with general data processing skills. The system was mostly used within the work group but also by others from different administrations.

Data Sources/ Data Suppliers
Data sources include satellite data, site photos and digital maps as well as statistical data. All data sources are derived from public administration.

Technical Applications
The system used Arc/Info and ArcView and expansions based on the languages AML and AVENUE. The standard data was administered within the GIS (INFO) system as a connection to a data bank did not exist.

Development of the EIS
The development of the system was followed through in principal by the authority’s working group and with external developers.

Publication and Dissemination
The results of the MOS-PRG were provided free of charge on display screens and as plots for other administrations. These formed the basis for regional GIS and for various specialist information systems.

EIS Name
No name given

In Use Since
1995

Institution and Contact
Moscow Committee of Environmental Protection,
Mr. Vladimir Miasnikov

Functional Extent
Geographical data was produced with the help of "tablet digitisation", screen digitisation, scanning and derived from foreign data. Overlaying of different map layers are used for conflict analyses and in interpolation routines to represent areas of impact and pollution.
The resulting maps are thematically edited, using all the design possibilities offered by the GIS.

Number and Type of Users
The system was used by many in the work group and was in daily use. As well as GIS experts, other specialists also used the system. The system was also available for users outside the administration.

Data Sources/ Data Suppliers
The basic topographic data came from public institutions, likewise the thematic content for the most part was derived from public institutions and universities. The private sector contributed only a small share of the data.

Technical Applications
The system used the products GeoGraph, GeoDraw and MapInfo and for the management of the factual data, dBase and Paradox. The system ran under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. It handled without a Client-Server application. GeoGraph and GeoDraw are Russian separate developments.

Development of the EIS
The application of the EIS was based principally on the available finished product. Expansions or separate developments were not carried out.

Costs
The investment in hardware and software amounted to about 10 000 ECU. A further expansion was not carried out (no further development costs). For the costs of data analysis no details can be given.

Publication and Dissemination
The results were published as plots, printed maps and as an environmental atlas. The transmission of digital data to other public institutions was produced without cost.

EIS Name
TELLUS and TELLUS Vision

In Use Since
1992 and 1997

Institution and Contact
Commune di Roma, Dept 10
Bruno Salsedo

Functional Extent
TELLLUS is a product that offers similar function to ARC/INFO; TELLUS Vision is Client-based software with which it is possible to visualise geographical data.

Number and Type of Users
The users are specialists (5) with general data processing skills.

Data Sources/ Data Suppliers
The data sources are exclusively from public institutions.

Technical Applications
The GIS TELLUS uses an RISC-Workstation. It has a connection to an ORACLE data bank. TELLUS Vision (WIN 95) is a system based in Client-Server architecture.

Development of the EIS
It exclusively used GIS TELLUS, and further development (application development) has not followed.

Costs
No details given.

Publication and Dissemination
Maps were published in an environmental report.