Geographic Information Systems How GIS technologies improve regional or local energy plans Emanuela Caiaffa UNESCO Casaccia, th July

The present lecture is divided in two parts The first one concerns the GIS technology and how it is a good support tool for managers, designers and operators who want approach, in a territorial way, their studies for renewable energy solutions The second one concerns the e-learning course SIGEO that is a distance learning course on GIS and on Geographic Information Science

Renewable energy

GIS: a common language to connect policy-makers with scientific community

GIS: a tool for producing integratedanddynamicKnowledge

Integrated knowledge in a sense of a lot of different data type, different data format, and so on, all in one

dynamic knowledge in sense of information dynamically linked to the territory like orthoimages…

…like text files dynamically linked to the concerning territory

SIGEO is an educational course for the dissemination of  Geographic Information theory  Geographic Information Systems

SIGEO is working on ENEA web site devoted to Distance Learning: Project in charge: Ing. Anna Moreno Web site in charge: Ing. Flavio Fontana

SIGEO addresses  decision makers  advisor institution for policy makers and stakeholders working for public administration  anyone would start own knowledge about GIS and its applications

SIGEO looks to furnish theoretical and practical fundamental elements useful for  to acquire a basic knowledge of the GIS meaning  to evaluate effective GIS designing and building opportunity having clear in mind what are the final objectives  to be able “to read” and to interpret elaborated data through thematic maps that represent the GIS top achievement

Methodological approach SIGEO course contents are structured following KM 2 methodology SIGEO as a product of both GIS and methodological expertise combination

Self-assessment Studies in depth Lecture 1 Terminology Link for curiosity Unit Lecture 2 Unit Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Unit Lecture 5 Unit Module 2 Lecture 1 Unit Lecture 2 Lecture 5 Lecture 3 Unit Lecture 4 Module 1 Unit Module 3 Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 3 Module 5 Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Module 4 Lecture 1 Lecture 2

Lecture 5Real examples of GIS applications Lecture 5: Real examples of GIS applications MODULE 1: GIS Introduction Lecture 4: What is a GIS application Lecture 1: What is a GIS Lecture 2: How to build a GIS Lecture 3: What a GIS does

MODULE 2 : GIS elements Lecture 4: Digital cartography meaning Lecture 5: Coordinate reference systems, projection reference system Lecture 1: GIS components Lecture 2: Data/geographic information concept. Spatial Relations

Earth shape

MODULE 3: Data models Lecture 1: Data vectorial model Lecture 2: Data raster model Lecture 3: Data tree dimensional model Lecture 4: What are data structures in a GIS Lecture 5: Data model object oriented: Geodatabase

Lecture 1: GIS functions MODULE 4: GIS functions and operators Lecture 1: Involved technologies in Internet GIS Lecture 2: Internet GIS MODULE 5: Internet GIS Lecture 2: GIS operators

makes able users to enter a fine collection of articles GIS involved as well as to get acquainted with scientific communications, technical notes, and so on. Studies in depth

Editore:IGM Scheda:Arezzo, Palazzo Comunale, 21 giugno - 30 settembre A cura di A. Catile. Firenze, 2003; br., pp. 384, ill. b/n col. num n.t., cm 23x30. (Disponibile anche in edizione rilegata Euro 70). ISBN: Soggetto:Codici Miniati e Manoscritti Periodo:XV-XVIII sec. Rinascimento LEONARDO GENIO E CARTOGRAFO Rappresentazione del territorio tra scienza ed arte: oltre a renderci partecipi del mirabile percorso nella evoluzione dei simboli e dei mezzi con cui di epoca in epoca l’uomo ha inventato la rappresentazione del territorio, ci informa su un Leonardo che iniziò la sua attività di cartografo dopo aver studiato la geometria di Euclide dal 1496 al 1504 LEONARDO GENIUS AND CARTOGRAPHER: territory representation between science and art

CONCLUSIONS Before concluding my lecture let me express some conclusions The aim of the today lecture was to give you some starting points to approach a new way to face the renewable energy plans realization conducted by using GIS: by analysing thematic maps, it is possible to find solutions to critical environmental, social, economic, anthropogenic and other situations; in other words, all kinds of situations related to the territory management, or its governance.

Growing interest in Geographic Information and the success of GIS technologies have stimulated the development of new application fields, technologies, hardware and software to meet a very wide range of requests from both the scientific research community and the environmental policymaking community. CONCLUSIONS

A tool as GIS could be important to help them in power plants design as regards their location, shape, size. On the other hand GIS can help to individuate areas that, for different reasons, could not sustain a renewable font plant as well as through GIS analysis it could result that a certain area is not convenient by logistic point of view. GIS use can also help to accomplish national safety standards, according to Local Authorities mandatory rules and to verify the state of the technical art as well as of the technological solutions. Urban planners and decision makers must take into account the use of renewable sources for the energetic plans definition.

SIGEO distance learning GIS course was ideated and implemented in order to fill a gap in GI and GIS dissemination often affected by too professional treatment or too basic notional treatment. The e-learning tool permits us to reach several kinds of students and users having different cultural level and extraction. On our intention SIGEO should furnish a power tool to induce the highest number of people to access GIS technologies and to familiarize with difficult concepts, often new, that are the basic principia of the Geographic Information Science. At least I should like also to express some conclusions about the SIGEO course.

Thank you for your attention!