The Information Societyand Enlargement of the European Union

7th17 International ConferenceInformatics for Environmental ProtectionCottbus 2003

Albrecht Gnauck, Ralph Heinrich (Eds.)

Part 1: Concepts and Methods

Metropolis Verlag

Marburg 2003

UBATIB Hannover124 713 092

Table of Contents

Part I: Concepts and Methods

Key Notes

Wolfgang Birthler

Umweltvorsorge und Zukunftssicherung im Informationszeitalter -Herausforderung an Umweltpolitik und Informatik 25

Erwin Staudt

Unsere Chancen in der Informationsgesellschaft 31

Jiirgen Wernstedt and Thomas RauschenbachForecast, Control of Water Level/Flow and Flood Preventionin River Basins and Water Reservoirs - Cybernetical Aspects 35

Jiirgen W. Einax

Chemometrics in the Environmental Sciences -Challenges and New Methods 51

Olgierd Hryniewicz and Jan Studzinski

Application of Systems Analysis Toolsin Environmental Engineering 58

Michael AngrickA Sustainable Information Society Within theEnlarged European Community - Reflections on the Infrastructureof the Information Society 69

Information Society and Enlargement of the European Union

New Tasks for the Information Society

Werner Pillmann and Elisabeth MrakotskyThe Importance of Being Environmentally Conscious 78

Jerome Simpson and Gabor HevesThe Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe:Its Contribution Past, Present and Future to the EnvironmentalInformation Society, in the Context of Enlargement 86

Information Society and Sustainable Development

Rudolph Braun, Valentin Nicolescu, Helmut Krcmar, Werner F. Schulzand Martin KreebModern Communication Instruments for the Imparting ofSustainable Management - by the Example of an Avatar 94

Peter Jakob, Gustav Schneiter, Erik Rosier, Christian Hug, Flurin Sutter

IT-Replacement Investments and Sustainability Within Swiss ForestEcosystem Research: The Broad and the Narrow Strategy 102

Imran S. Khalid

Implementing Environmental Management at the VillageCommunity Level: A Case Study Based on Pakistani Experience 110

Sustainable Development and Information Exchange

Jifi Hrebicek, Tomds Pitner and Vladimir BenkoStandardization of Environmental Data and InformationManagement in the Czech and Slovak Republic 117

Miroslav Lacuska, Dana Lapesova and Jifi HrebicekBasel Convention Regional Centre for Training and TechnologyTransfer, Slovakia in the Process of EU Enlargement 125

Ulrich Eimer

"Virtual Environmental Office" for Municipalities inCentral and Eastern Europe 133

Gergely Lukdcs

Decision Support for Consumers - Information Servicesfor a More Sustainable World 139

Environmental Informatics

Concepts of Environmental Informatics

Kostas Karatzas

Environmental Informatics: Concepts and Definitions 146

Gergely Lukacs, Arnd Otterstdtter, Claus Hofmann, Marcus Briesen,Gunter Vogt, Gerhild Lienau, Hans Neumann, Volker Schuchardtand Dirk Weber

Data Warehouse for Water Management - Geographic Data andETL Processes 152

Web Technology

Michael Haase, Jb'rg Westbomke, Thomas Schiitz, Roland Mayer-Foil,Burkhard Schneider and Michael BiloAn Approach Towards an Unified View on Environmental Data -The Environmental Markup Language 160

Rudolph Braun, Markus Russ, Werner F. Schulz, Helmut Krcmarand Martin KreebAn Open-Source Community for Building Ecological Tools 165

Erica Bezerra Queiroz Ribeiro, Hugo Cesar Hoeschland Filipe Correa da CostaWeb Portals for Environmental Information Dissemination -Artificial Intelligence Use Cases 171

Sonja Bee, Jadranka Pecar-Ilic and Ivica RuzicArchitecture of River Information Systemwith Automatic XML Processing 177

Jorg Westbomke, Thomas Dombeck, Michael Haase, Renate Ebeland Dieter LehneWAP-Based Environmental Information Services 185

Harry StorchMobile Portals for Community-Based CollaborativeEnvironmental Monitoring 193

Herwig Zeiner, Alexander Aimer, Harald Stelzl, Iris Freehand Werner Haas

Virtual Environmental Scenarios Applied in aGeo-Multimedia System 201

Modelling and Simulation

Ekkehard Holzbecher

What is a Coupled Model? 208

Christoph Horner, Ekkehard Holzbecher, Bernd Wiese andGunnar Nutzmann

A Coupled Model for Transport, Geochemistry and Redox Processes 216

Christian Fischer, Andra Hirsemann, Heidrun Matejkaand Tobias Riekeberg

Rule-Based Modelling of Soil-Water Interactions Influenced bySubsidence Caused by Mining Activities 223

Francois Sarradin, Daniel Siret and Jacques Teller

Visual Urban Space Assessment from Sky Shape Analysis 231

Erik Lofving and Anders GrimvallData Models for Physical Flow 239

Riidiger Schaldach

A GIS-Based Integrated Simulation Environment for LinkingLand Use Patterns to Ecosystem Processes 246

Nguyen Xuan Thinh

Contemporary Spatial Analysis and Simulation of the SettlementDevelopment of the Dresden City Region 253

Johannes Rosen, Dominik Most, Wolf Fichtner and Otto Rentz

Use of the PERSEUS Models to Analyse the Effectsof Large-Scale Renewable Energy Production 262

Environmental Management

Environmental Risk Management

Gabriele Vierhuff

Computer-Based Risk Assessment Using Structure-ActivityRelationship Calculation 270

Charlotte Ka'mpf Jiirgen Ihringer, Anusch Daemi and Jaques CalmetAgent-Based Expert Information Retrieval forFlood-Risk Management 274

Environmental Management and Climate Change

Martin C. Maguire

Meeting User Needs in the Development of the EUROCLIMClimate Information System 282

Heinrich Humer, Wilfried Winiwarter and Gerald Schimak

Multiple Dependencies and Scenario Management inEmission Inventories 290

Rostyslav Stolyarchuk and Lubomyra KujiiGreenhouse Gas Inventory Analysis in the Energy Sector of Ukraine 297

Logistics

Lorenz M. Hilty, Andre J. Rogger and Frank A. HartmannAssessment of Telecommunication-Supported Dynamic VehicleRouting Strategies 305

Stefan Naumann and Kerstin SchdferReducing Traffic and Enhancing Communication byComputer-Supported Mobility-Coops 312

Nicolas Knaak, Ruth Meyer and Bernd PageAgent-Based Simulation of Sustainable Logistic Strategies forLarge City Courier Services 318

Life Cycle Analysis

Andreas CirothA Model to Dynamically Change Settings in a Life CycleAssessment for Packaging Systems 326

Daniel Heubach and Uwe ReyImplementation of Corporate Material Flow Managementin Automotive Suppliers - Development of Methods 334

Silke Protzsch and Claus RautenstrauchApproaches to Remove Data Defects from Material Flow Networks 342

Water Management

Jorgen WiirtzDevelopment of an Environmental Management System Based onAgent Technology for Inland Water Data in the European Union 349

Josef Hejzlar, Paul Boers, Brian Kronvang and Feza Karaer

Nutrient Retention - A Key Element in Evaluating ReferenceConditions of Lakes and Reservoirs for the EU WaterFramework Directive 357

Thomas Petzoldt, Ronny Peters and Katja Siemens

Construction of Simplified Lake Water Quality Modules (SWQM)Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Artificial Neural Networks 365

Albrecht Gnauck, Bernhard Luther, Thomas Wiedemannand Wilfried Krug 373

Coupling of Simulators for Optimal Control of Water Quality

Environmental Information Systems

Environmental Information and Data Management

Jan Sluka and Jifi Hfebicek

Model of the Object-Oriented Environmental Information - A NewApproach in the Environmental Data and Information Management 381

Ulrich Hussels, Matthias Luttgert and Janet NagelDeveloping Different Environmental DatabaseApplications Using a Generic Software 389

Knowledge and Information Management Systems

Klaus Tochtermann, Konrad Zirm and Stefanie LindstaedtIntroducing Knowledge Management in theFederal Environmental Agency of Austria 396

Thomas Usldnder, Holger Schmid, Martin Schmieder andJorg StumppThematic User Environment for Water Body InformationSystems and Beyond 404

Weihua Zeng, Han Shi, Rongchang Chen and Yongjun ZhangAnalysis and Designing of System on Sharing EST Information 412

Environmental Information Systems

Thomas Schiitz, Gerrit Vonkeman and Andreas LippkeE-CUISINE - European Competence Centre for Usersof Information Systems on the Environment 420

Jaroslav Sole and Tereza VotockovdPrague Environmental Information System (IOZIP) 425

Markus U. Miiller, Birgit Augstein, Mathias Bock and Reiner GlowinskiDevelopment of an Environmental Data Infrastructure for Hamburg 431

Petra KohlerDevelopment of an Open Information Infrastructure for DisasterResearch: Results and Prospects from DFNK and CEDIM 438

Petra Jahnke and Matthias MengerGSBL - Concept + Software Suite of an Information Systemfor Chemical Substances 446

Hans-Martin Mulisch and Mirko FilettiConstruction of the Expert Database Environment and Healthwww.umweltdaten-online.de (UDO) 454

Environmental Standardisation

Grigor Boyadjiyski

Main Accents in the Standard ISO 14001 Concerning the InformationResources Management 462

Wassilios Kazakos, Alexei Akhounov, Heiko Paoli, Sven Behrens,Hugo Niesing and Stephane LombardoEditing ISO 19115 Compliant Metadata in EUROSION 468

Oliver Karschnick, Fred Kruse, Stefanie Topker, Thomas Riegel,Marco Eichler and Sven Behrens

The UDK and ISO 19115 Standard 475

Environmental Metadata

Marion Wilde, Manfred Lange, Hardy Pundt, Nicole Ostldnderand KrzysztofJanowicz

An Environmental Metadata Profile in the EU Project MEDIS 482

Michael Haase, Thomas Dombeck, Matthias Neidlinger, Giinter Barnikel,Fred Kruse and Oliver Karschnick

Comparison of the Different Instances of theGerman Environmental Data Catalogue 490

Fred Kruse, Oliver Karschnick, Stefanie Topker and Thomas Riegel

gein® - Planning the Next Generation 498

Part II: Applications, Workshops, Posters

Applications

Environmental Data Representation

Uwe Rammert and Friedhelm Hosenfeld

Dynamic and Interactive Presentation of Environmental Information 517

Dirk Gortzen, Stefan Schneberger and Uwe Rammert

Schleswig-Holsteins Environmental Atlas asContent Management System for Environmental Geographical Data? 525

Environmental Reporting

Ralf Isenmann, Jan Brosowski and Christian LenzTarget Group Tailored Corporate Environmental Reporting -Stereotyping, Individualisation, Personalisation 533

Jorge Marx-Gomez, Mario Amelung, Claus Rautenstrauchand Ralf IsenmannA Case Study on an Automated Generation of Environmental Reports 541

Ralf Isenmann, Jan Brosowski, Jorge Marx-Gomezand Hans-Knud ArndtGoing Ahead in Harmonising XML-Based DTDs for CorporateEnvironmental Reporting 550

Eric Weihs, Artur Kawicki and Piotr WezykCompliance With the Reporting Requirements With Regard toEnvironmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Poland Within the ScopeoftheEU Directive 558

Knowledge Management and Transfer

K.-Peter Holz, Gerald Hildebrandt and Frank MolkenthinVirtual Laboratories for Projects in Environment-Water 567

Miguel A. Barrientos, Ari Fainchtein and Natan ZaidenweberWeb-Based Application for Implementing Triple-Bottom LineSearch Process 575

Antje Dietrich, Renate Ebel and Klaus ZetzmannEvaluation of a Content Management System (CMS) for the Ministryof Environment and Transportation Baden-Wurttemberg (UVM) 584

Ulrich Bosler, Thorsten Bell and Elwin SavelsberghThe New Modelling Environment Co-Lab: Survey on the Designof Software and Learning Materials 591

Data Management

Simon Wood, Christoph Roenick and Michael Natschke

Requirements of a Modern Hydrological Workbench Illustrated by theIntegrated Data Management Information System WISKI and itsImplementation at the Environment Agency of England and Wales 599

Peter Strobl, Albin Blaschka and Paul HeiselmayerBISxml 1.0: An Open Framework for Management and Interchangeof Ecological Data 609

Environmental Statistics

Kristina Voigt

Evaluation of Environmental Chemicals in Databases: An Examplefor the Interdisciplinarity between Environmental Informatics andEnvironmetrics/Chemometrics 613

Nadine Holzinger and Andreas Ciroth

RFM2 - Calculating Qualitative Information 621

Mohamed Hussian and Anders Grimvall

A Generic Procedure for Simultaneous Estimation of Monotone Trendsand Seasonal Patterns in Time Series of Environmental Data 629

Sascha Koch, Jiirgen Meister and Martin Rohde

MUSTANG - A Framework for Statistical Analysesof Multidimensional Data in Public Health 635

Anders Nordgaard

Impact of Sampling Frequency on the Power of Nonparametric Testsfor Water Quality Trends 643

Pilot Projects

Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Kostas Karatzas, Geir Endregard,Kurt Fedra, Rainer Friedrich, Per Henrik Johansen,Liana Kalognomou, Ari Karppinen, Per Haavard Kraggerud,Jaakko Kukkonen, Steinar Larssen, Frank de Leeuw, AchimLohmeyer, Chris Naneris, Daniel Nicklass, Giannis Papaioannou,Gertraud Peinel, Tinus Pulles, Stefan Reis, Thomas Rose,Martin Sedlmayr and Dick van den Hout

Environmental Services and Data Brokerage Portal:ENV-e-CITY in Action 652

Gijs van den Dool, Teemu Mustonen, Konsta Sirvio,Mikko Kolehmainen andJuhani Ruuskanen

Intelligent Waste Management 660

Felipe Omar Tapia Silva and Nikolaus ModelMeasurement and Model Supported Alternative Rain WaterManagement in Urban Areas of Berlin Using Trackbed Naturationfor Railway Tracks 669

Software Tools

Nikolay TsanovA CORBA-Based Polymorph Software Architecture for ApplicationsServing the Quality and Environmental Management Systems 677

Gregor Durrenberger and Christoph HartmannECO2 Regio: A New Software Tool for Regional Energyand CO2 Modelling 684

Jens Finke, Frank Koster, Karin Frank and Michael Sonnenschein

A Software Tool for Assessing the Effect of Trafficon Wildlife Populations 692

Geographical Information Systems

Nelley Kovalevskaya and Elena Mitrophanova

Environmental Mapping Based on Spatial Variability andComputational Vision Models 700

Desiree Hilbring and Burkhard Schneider

Visualisation of Digital Elevation Models in Different ResolutionsWith Interactive Reloading of New Parts in a 3D-GIS-Viewer 708

Rudolf Orthofer, Peter Kutschera, Heinrich Humer and Wolfgang Loibl

EnviroMap Austria- A Novel Web-Based Environmental Atlas 716

Gotthard Meinel and Michael WinklerProvision of Recreational Areas in Urban Spaces -An International Long-Term Comparison of the Developmentsof Selected European Cities 722

Rainer Roosmann, Wolfgang Busch, Julita Gorczyk,Frank Mauersberger, Stefan Nickel and Peter Vosen

Geographic Information Systems Support for MonitoringEnvironmental Impacts Caused by Deep Hard Coal Mining 730

Uwe Riippel, Gerrit Seewald and Michael Petersen

Geographical Framework for the Network-Based Management of Duds...739

Stefan Fuest

Online - Visualization of Water Level Datain North Rhine-Westfalia (NRW) 746

Uwe Riippel, Thomas Gutzke, Michael Petersen and Gerrit Seewald

Online-Processing of 2'/2 - Dimensional Groundwater Maps 750

Wim Mol

Coupling of AlRBASE With the EEA Map Service Tool 757

Rostyslav Bun, Mykola Gusti, Volodymyr Dachuk, Bohdan Oleksivand Yaroslav Tsybrivskyy

Geoinformation System for Greenhouse Gas Inventoriesas a Practical Tool for Decision Makers 765

Matthias Horn, Volkmar Triestram and Jo van Nouhuys

Data Evaluation Using the Generic Selection ComponentoftheNewIMIS System 773

Workshops

Disturbed Landscapes

Reinhard F. Hiittl

Disturbed Landscapes: Case Study Lusatian Lignite Mining District 781

Hubert HasenauerConcepts Within Forest Ecosystem Modelling and Their Application 792

Michael HauhsThe Harz as a Historic Mining Landscape: A Case Study Basedon Interactive Visualisations of Forest Growth 802

Riidiger Grote, Katja Patzner and Thomas SeifertModelling Water Availability in Individual Trees - a Contributionof Process-Based Simulation to the Prediction of Developmentsin Heterogeneous Stands 804

Chemometrics

Armin Aulinger, Simone Wiegel, Wolf von Tiimpling, Heinz Harmsand Burkhard StachelMultivariate Statistical Analysis of Drug Concentrations Measuredin the River Saale 8 1 3

Jo'rg Kraft, Corinna Kowalik and Jiirgen W. Einax

The Extractable Information Depending on the Scale of theInvestigated River Catchment Area 821

Wolf von Tiimpling, Franziska Horst und Martin SchultzeA Method to Optimise Sampling Strategies - Key Study Goitsche,Bitterfeld, Germany 830

Michael WintersteinHow to Use Information From Measured Values BetweenLower Level of Quantification and Detection Limit? 834

Simulation in Environmental Informatics

Jochen WittmannTrends in Environmental Modeling and Simulation 840

Thomas Clemen

Environmental Modeling and Simulation - Bridging the GapBetween Theory, Experiment, and Application 848

Albrecht Gnauck

Theoretical Concepts Applied on Environmental Dataand Decision Problems 853

The New Modelling Environment Co-Lab

Thorsten Bell, Ulrich Bosler and Elwin Savelsbergh

The New Modelling Environment Co-Lab: Design of Softwareand Learning Materials 864

Environmental Information Systems as Components in Twinning Projects

An/a Jenichen, Michael Schmidt and Claus Heuberger

Incorporating Environmental Information Technologies into"Capacity-Building" Projects - Examples and Experiencesof Twinning Projects in CEE - Countries 873

Anja Jenichen

Short Introduction of Twinning- An Institution PartnershipBetween Member Countries and Candidate Countries 875

Claus Heuberger

Environmental Information and Management System -The New Czech-German Twinning Project 879

Christian Kiihne and Gabriel Striegel

Implementation of an IPPC Information System and an IntegratedPollutant Register in the Czech Republic - Exercises andExperiences of a Czech Republic - German Twinning Project 882

Markus Weidenbach and Piotr Wezyk

INFOOS: The Polish Environmental Information andCommunication System - Technological and Organisational Aspectsof the Implementation of a System to Support Poland in theEnvironmental Impact Assessment Process 890

Hans W. Jakobi and Uwe BuellOrigin and Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls - Exercises andExperiences of a Bulgarian - German Twinning Project 892

Helmut Lorentz, Jiirgen Friebertshaeuser and Achim Lohmeyer

GIS Based Urban Scale Air Pollution Modelling - Exercises andExperiences of a Bulgarian - Twinning Project 898

Posters

Miroslav KubdsekSemantic Web Technology - Ontology Extraction fromEnvironmental Webs 905

Wassilios Kazakos, Rainer Lehfeldt, Christian Michl,Cars ten Heidmann and Alexei ValikovMetadata Repositories in Governmental Information Systemsfor Coastal Regions in Germany 910

Tobia Maike LakesFrom Environmental Information Systems to EnvironmentalInformation Management-A Case Study of Berlin 915

Jaroslav Rdcek, Jan Ministr and Josef FialaReengineering of Public Environmental Administration 920

Grigor Boyadjiyski, Ilia Nemigenchev and Nikolay Tsanov

A System for Vocational Lifelong Training on Quality andEnvironmental Management for Staff Engaged in Bulgarian SMEs 925

Radmila BojkovskaEnvironmental Monitoring System in the Republic of Macedonia 929

Jaroslav SilberskyEnvironmental Decision Support Using MultidimensionalDatabase Technology 934

Jan Pesl and Jaroslav Rdcek

Searching for Extreme Limits of Environmental Phenomenaby Means of Numerical Optimisation 938

Clemens DeilmannModelling the Mass Flow and Land Use of Future Housing Demand inGermany 2025 - Scenario Results of UBA - Research Project BASiS-2 ..942

Abaah Johnson

Introduction to the Sustainable Transport Operational Programme 946

Marc van Liedekerke, Panos Panagos, Faycal Bouraouiand Antonio Nogueira

The EUROHARP Information System: A Prototype System in Supportto Environmental Issues Within the Water Framework Directive 951

Michael Fischer, Giinter Barnikel, Michael Haase and Jorg Westbomke

A GIS - Based Tool for Detailed Planning Works for Enhancingthe Ecomorphological Quality of Running Waters 955

Dierk Wagenschein and Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

Modelling River Water Quality as a Dependence of River Morphologyand Structure - Concept for Simulations of the Weisse Elster River 959

Albrecht Gnauck, Ralph Heinrich and Bernhard Luther

Simulation of Eutrophication of Shallow Lakesof the Lower Havel River 963

Author Index 967