Author(s): Yang-Chi Chang; Meng-Tsung Lee; Kun-Chi Lai; Jeng-Chung Chen
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Keywords: Sustainable aquatic environment; Web-based system; Information technology; Water quality simulation
Abstract: This paper introduces the web-based system that has been set up as a collaborative facility to allow access the key environmental information about the Love River in the city of Kaohsiung, South Taiwan. The degradation of aquatic environment in the Love River has concerned both public and private sectors, such that a research team has been formed to approach the problem. To integrate the efforts, including diverse data collections and various models explorations, from each remote member during the project span, and at the end of the research, to provide the city government an effective management plan, the development of a multi-functional Web-based System is considered necessary. By taking advantage of three state-of-the-art information technologies, which are web-enable database management system (DBMS), Internet geographic information system (IGIS), and distributed computing, the complex system implementation is therefore possible. With such a distributed and shared information systems, the decision support functions based on two types of calibrated water quality simulation models, including Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) and the Lover River Hydrodynamic and Water Quality model (LRHWQ), integrate data query, data warehousing, and spatial analysis in an Internet planning/design environment. Detailed discussions regarding system integrations and operational functions will be presented in the paper.
Year: 2002