Data Management for Environmental Monitoring

Abstract

A huge effort on data management must be made to discover long term trends, patterns and to enable performing advanced statistical analysis of collected data from environmental monitoring networks. Creating a robust information and communication technology architecture, designing data structures for heterogeneous entities and processes, guarantee quality of data at all levels of data repository as well as implementation of all security needs is a challenging task. During development of GENASIS (Global ENvironmental ASsessment and Information System) these needs were identified, resolved and successfully implemented. This work briefly describes core concepts, current state and near future roadmap of GENASIS data management system, which is used – among others – as a base tool for National Centre for Persistent Organic Pollutants, Stockholm Convention Regional POPs Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, as well as for research and education activities of RECETOX (Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment).