Development of decision and environmental modelling tools based on GIS databases

Contracting partner: Ministry of Education, National Committee for Technological Development

In the frame of a tender initiated by the Ministry of Education (ME), and based on a contract concluded between the Ministry of Education and the CARI HAS, a research project titled Development of software tools for modelling decision making and environmental problems based on GIS databases was started at the Laboratory and Department of Operations Research and Decision Systems. The aim is to further develop the program system and methodology for environmental modelling and decision making support based on a common application od decision and environmental models with GIS tools. Following the elaboration and accomplishment of environmental and decision models for analysing phenomena and processes, the program system makes preparing thematic maps in compliance with the claims possible, from the generated and the available databases. The methodology and the software based on it can help decision makers in solving environmental problems that cannot be managed sufficiently for the time being, furthermore, in making adequate decisions regarding the implementation of industrial, commercial, servicing, etc projects.

Tasks to be performed in the frame of the project:

• planning of an information system regarding the environment: defining datastructures and processes per elements of the environment;
• planning of a decision support system: defining datastructures, processes regarding different decision problems;
• elaboration of the following models for the environmental information system as per follows:
  • air: elaboration of models regarding stacks, line-sources and surface-sources, visualisation;
  • water: elaboration of models regarding ground water and elaboration ofmodels regarding surface waters;
• as decision support system software: elaboration of individual decision models, group decision models, sensitivity analysis, visualisation;
• test of of environmental information system completion of the documentation in accordance with the quality ensurance stipulations;
• test of the decision support system, completion of documentation.