1. Finnish water information system
Kati Manni, SYKE
2nd October 2007, Copenhagen

2. Existing water information systems
Various GIS data
Groundwater areas – quality and quantity
Surface water – quality and quantity
Zoobenthos
Point load sources
Monitoring programs and sites
Systems are beeing used in the whole environmental administration

3. Technique used in the water information systems in Finland
Environmental administration network
Webservers
Database-
servers
Database-
servers
Load
balancer
GIS

4. Building an information system for waterbodies and the related data
Information system mainly designed for national needs
At the same time trying to prepare for the WFD reporting in 2010
The system collects data about the waterbodies in Finland
The system is used in 13 Regional Environmental Centres, SYKE and the Ministry of Environment, which share the same network
The system is still under construction..

9. WFD reporting in 2007: WISE XML-files National Information system WEB
Checking and processing
data
Regional Environmental Centres saved the data
XML-files
National
Information system
WEB
servers
SQL-
server
WEB
servers
ACCESS-
Tool
Converting data