I.Stamataki@itia.ntua.gr
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Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information
Duration: January 1992–December 1993
Budget: 394 238 400 DRS (about €1 600 000)
Commissioned by:
Contractor: Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering
Collaborators:
Project director: D. Koutsoyiannis
Principal investigators: M. Aftias, D. Koutsoyiannis
Programme: STRIDE
The main objective of HYDROSCOPE is the creation of a modern information infrastructure for the hydrological cycle in Greece. Specifically, it aims at organising and systematising the hydrological, hydrogeological and meteorological information using the capacities that are provided by the modern methods and techniques of computer science and telecommunications. The database, which will be built, will contribute to the reliable programming, planning and management of the water resources of the country, the mitigation of phenomena like flood and drought, the evaluation of hydroclimatic parameters and their effects to the natural and biological environment, the diagnosis of climatic changes as well as the prediction and the control of the air pollution and the groundwater and surface water pollution. The development of a unified synergistic network, the information exchange and the co-ordination of the activities of the participating organisations, which are involved with the components of the hydrological cycle (Universities, Research Centres, Ministries and Services) as well as the reorganisation and standardisation of the hydrometeorological networks' function are considered as indirect but essential benefits. The programme includes: (a) hardware equipment, to install a network with 13 major nodes (RISC Workstations with Unix operation system) in Athens and Thessaloniki, local networks of PCs in each node, private high speed wide area network using routers and leased telephone lines, (b) infrastructure software, and specifically, distributed relational data base and graphic environment for applications' development, and (c) application software, and specifically, a distributed database system and applications concerning the input, the supervision and the processing of data in a graphic environment. This distributed database system provides firstly, the autonomy of each participant in managing data and secondly, a transparent, relatively to the data position, access. In addition, the project includes the locating of the available hydrological, hydrogeological and meteorological data that is maintained by the participants and the determination of the volume, the form and the reliability of measurements. Finally, a significant part of HYDROSCOPE deals with the development and the standardisation of methodologies regarding the processing as well as the pilot data entry of a part of the hydrological, hydrogeological and meteorological information aiming at the testing of the methodologies and systems.
I. Spyrakos, I. Stamataki, and D. Koutsoyiannis, Analysis of a geographical information system for hydrological data , 2nd meeting of the Greek users of ArcInfo, Marathon Data Systems, 1992.
Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/109/1/documents/1992GISSpyrakos.pdf (1243 KB)
I. Stamataki, A. Koukouvinos, and N. Mamassis, Maps - Part A: Information of the surface hydrology, Evaluation of Management of the Water Resources of Sterea Hellas - Phase 2, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, September 1995.
Related project: Evaluation of Management of the Water Resources of Sterea Hellas - Phase 2
I. Stamataki, A. Koukouvinos, and N. Mamassis, Development of a geographical information system- Section A: Surface hydrology information, Evaluation of Management of the Water Resources of Sterea Hellas - Phase 2, Report 22, 48 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, September 1995.
Related project: Evaluation of Management of the Water Resources of Sterea Hellas - Phase 2
Full text:
NTUA Hydroscope Team, HYDROSCOPE, User manual for the database and applications for hydrology and meteorology, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Contractor: Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, 180 pages, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, December 1994.
Related project: Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information
Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/338/1/documents/er1_1-73.pdf (13830 KB)
I. Spyrakos, and I. Stamataki, Organization and management of hydrologic basin information by use of GIS techniques, Evaluation of Management of the Water Resources of Sterea Hellas - Phase 1, Report 9, 36 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, October 1992.
Related project: Evaluation of Management of the Water Resources of Sterea Hellas - Phase 1
Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/10/1/documents/er4_9.pdf (3452 KB)