1. Concept of a Danube River Basin GIS
Ingrid Roder
Gabriela Vincze

2. Danube River Basin District
2nd largest river basin of Europe
801,463 km²
18 states
8 EU-Member states
3 Accession countries
12 CP to the DRPC
1 observer to the DRPC

3. Danube RB GIS - Benefits
Facilitates creation of a common database and consistent information
Effective application of quality assurance measures
Institutionalisation of data harmonization processes (common methodology)
Establishment of common standards (e.g. metadata)
Supports data sharing, helps to improve communication and sharing expertise
Continuity for recurrent (reporting) obligations
Provide information for different target groups
Public information dissemination

4. Danube RB GIS - Stategic plan
Basis for
River Basin Management within the ICPDR
EU Water framework Directive support for reporting
Strategic decision making
Public information dissemination
Implementation plan
1st phase ( ): DRB Mapping for reporting
2nd phase ( ): centralised DRB WebGIS
System Definition finished (Feb05)
Prototype, System development (until autumn 06)
3rd phase (2008 …): decentralised DRB WebGIS

5. System Architecture Danube River Basin GIS Web Server Fire Wall
Centralised
Database
OGC-Interfaces
WebGIS
Map Products
Analysis
Data Upload
Data Download
Danube River Basin GIS
File based
Data
National GIS:
Data Resources
Databases
WWW

6. Input Data 1st phase 2nd phase 3rd phase
data collected for the roof report 2004
2nd phase
+ layers promoted by the WFD GIS Guidance + data already available in the Danube Information System DANUBIS
3rd phase
+ further topics needed

7. Input Data Data harmonisation
Data content (metadata, attributes  templates, codelists)
Geometry (horizontal, vertical)
Metadata
Based on ISO 19115
Recomendation to create a DRB GIS community profile
Data delivery
ESRI shape file, geographic coordinate system, ETRS89
Data harmonisation

8. Geoinformation Products
Maps and webmaps
Interactive maps (viewing maps on-screen)
Print out maps  working purpose only, no automatic production of high quality cartographic products
Tables, query strings, diagrams
Extract of DRB GIS database (screen, file)
Predefined queries for standard output tables
Statistics
Overview of the features included in the dataset

9. System Functions Use Cases
Public User
Expert user
Data input user
Administrator
Outside the DRB GIS
Reconcile user
decision maker

10. System Functions Data Handling & Conversion
Data upload
Data download
Schema mapping
Templates
Workflow management

11. Danube RB GIS – WISE The next steps forward
GIS data
Danube states - reporting obligations to more than one RBD and to WISE
Easy exchange and conversion of data should be guaranteed – basis GIS guidance document (schema mapping)
Improvement of GIS guidance document (data model, coding, metadata, data harmonisation – content/templates, …)
Take already existing systems into consideration - WasserBLIcK

12. Concept of a Danube River Basin GIS
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