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.
N. Papakostas, I. Nalbantis, and D. Koutsoyiannis, Modern computer technologies in hydrologic data management, Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Advances in Water Resources Technology and Management, edited by G. Tsakiris and M. A. Santos, Lisbon, 285–293, doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.4167.9604, Balkema, Rotterdam, 1994.
Advanced water resources management is facilitated by hydrologic data management using modem computer technologies. By means of such technologies, a distributed data management system for hydrologic, meteorologic and hydrogeologic historical information has been built. In this paper, we present the fundamental design and implementation principles and features of the system. Information classification, local and distributed database design and network architecture are described.
Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/32/3/documents/1994EWRAModernCompTechn-ocr.pdf (1225 KB)
Additional material:
D. Koutsoyiannis, G. Tsakalias, A. Christofides, A. Manetas, A. Sakellariou, R. Mavrodimou, N. Papakostas, N. Mamassis, I. Nalbantis, and Th. Xanthopoulos, HYDROSCOPE: Creation of a national data bank of hydrological and meteorological information, Research and Technology Days '95, National Technical University of Athens, 1995.
Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/94/1/documents/1995EMPhydroscopeXanth.pdf (435 KB)
N. Papakostas, Design and implementation of the central database, Modernisation of the supervision and management of the water resource system of Athens, Report 19, 106 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, January 2004.
The design of the central database of the research project "Modernization of the supervision and management of the water resources for water supply of Athens" is described. The database obeys the relational model and encompasses all data of the water supply system with the exception of the geographical data for which proper fields (links) have been provided. The databases consists of subsystems for the support of the primary, processed and synthetic time series, the representation of the "real world", i.e., the geographical entities for measuring stations, cities, dams, conduits, lakes etc., the support of data collection process, the mathematical models, the hydrological scenarios etc.
Related project: Modernisation of the supervision and management of the water resource system of Athens
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N. Papakostas, Hardware Specifications, Modernisation of the supervision and management of the water resource system of Athens, Report 2, 48 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, December 2000.
The work dealing with the hardware of the project entitled "Modernization of the supervision and management of the water resources for water supply of Athens" is described. Based on the expected data flow rate general specifications and requirements are defined together with detailed technical specifications for the routers of the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), files of the Geographical Information System (GIS), runs of mathematical models, and communications. Furthermore, the specifications are extended to the system workstations, the printers, and the network hardware etc.
Related project: Modernisation of the supervision and management of the water resource system of Athens
Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/411/1/documents/report2.pdf (477 KB)
N. Papakostas, and I. Nalbantis, Report, Development of a relational data base for management and processing of hydrometric information, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, July 1994.
Related project: Development of a relational data base for management and processing of hydrometric information
Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/408/1/documents/er50_1.pdf (2763 KB)
N. Papakostas, G. Tsakalias, and A. Christofides, Instructions manual, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, 50 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, May 1994.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/350/1/documents/er1_1-84.pdf (4966 KB)
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.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/338/1/documents/er1_1-73.pdf (13830 KB)
N. Papakostas, Database schema design, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/15, 228 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, December 1993.
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NTUA Committee for the Selection of Hydroscope Infrastructure, and Workteam for the Selection of Hydroscope Infrastructure, Selection of network routers, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/9, 73 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, January 1993.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/323/1/documents/er1_1-9.pdf (8194 KB)
NTUA Committee for the Selection of Hydroscope Infrastructure, and Workteam for the Selection of Hydroscope Infrastructure, Selection of modems, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/10, 51 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, January 1993.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/322/1/documents/er1_1-10.pdf (5964 KB)
N. Papakostas, Hydroscope computer systems network study, design and specifications, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/8, 87 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, November 1992.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/336/1/documents/er1_1-8.pdf (9156 KB)
K. Pipili, and N. Papakostas, A proposal for the design of the security and accounting system, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/7, 74 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, September 1992.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/335/1/documents/er1_1-7.pdf (7899 KB)
N. Papakostas, Guidelines for standardised software development, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/6, 40 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, September 1992.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/334/1/documents/er1_1-6.pdf (3418 KB)
N. Papakostas, and K. Pipili, An overview of a visit in the USA and Canada: Similar systems, Software and network design, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/5, 30 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, September 1992.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/330/1/documents/er1_1-5.pdf (2947 KB)
NTUA Committee for the Selection of Hydroscope Infrastructure, and Workteam for the Selection of Hydroscope Infrastructure, Selection of data base management system (DBMS), Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/2, 53 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, July 1992.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/320/1/documents/er1_1-2.pdf (5638 KB)
NTUA Committee for the Selection of Hydroscope Infrastructure, and Workteam for the Selection of Hydroscope Infrastructure, Selection of basic computer equipment, Hydroscope: Creation of a National Databank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Report 1/1, 102 pages, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, June 1992.
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Full text: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/getfile/267/1/documents/er1_1-1.pdf (11265 KB)