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

Abstract

ENV-e-CITY is a European Commission supported e-content project that aims to develop an internet-based service for environmental information related applications. The motivation of this project lies in the need of European cities to perform assessments for complying with the EU environmental legislation, as well as the requirement for efficient environmental impact assessments. The e-content domain considered extends over four environmental application areas: air emission, air quality, topography, and meteorology. The application framework includes meta-data structures for these domains, export and import filters, interfaces and typical e-content services. The user community of the platform envisaged consists of city authorities, consultants involved in environmental impact assessment studies as well as citizens desiring valid information on the state of the atmospheric environment. An initial set of electronic information services is currently under development and will be demonstrated on the basis of the various user categories.