Author(s): Hector J. Perez-Iglesias; Gonzalo Blazquez Gil; Sonia Gonzalez Vazquez; Analia Lopez Fidalgo; Oscar Gonzalez Represas
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Keywords: Web-based GIS application; Eutrophication management; Cyanobacterial bloom; Alarm system of blue algae blooms; SWE; RESTful
Abstract: This works presents a web-based GIS platform designed to support an integral and efficient management of eutrophication. The platform allows a coherent and intensive identification and monitoring of the main processes that impact on the eutrophication and the consequent harmful environmental events, as blue-green algae blooms. The platform provides real time and historic data over 50 parameters-via web regarding critical parameters on aquatic systems–captured through a set of advanced sensor network and processed in an interoperable Open Source Model software. The platform has an advanced and scalable architecture that supports and controls a large number of heterogeneous types of data sources automatically and remotely via Internet. To this end, the platform uses the last cutting-edge approaches for data interoperability based on international standards for information systems in the area of smart sensors and monitoring. The platform implements the SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) approach, an OGC’s framework which includes a set of standards that follow the Open Source philosophy and is reference in this context. The prototype has been successfully tested and validated in Spain, in Duero river basin. The main advantage of the developed platform is its versatility and interoperability since the platform has an advanced and scalable architecture that allows the management, remote configuration, data collection and processing of heterogeneous sensors, sensor networks and access to sources of stored sensory data through APIs and standard protocols.
Year: 2017