River Basin Information System - RBIS Beispiel Vu Gia Thu Bon RBIS (Vietnam)

Abstract

The Vu Gia Thu Bon RBIS (River Basin Information System) has been set up and further developed within the research project LUCCi (Land use and climate change interactions in central Vietnam; http://www.lucci-vietnam.info). It serves as project database to manage environmental basic and result data. The project itself was funded from 2010 to 2015 within the BMBF program ‘sustainable land management’. The Vu Gia Thu Bon RBIS is based on the software platform RBIS (River Basin Information System), which has been developed at the Chair of Geographic Information Science at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena in Germany for more than 13 years. During that time RBIS was applied in several research projects worldwide. RBIS is a modular structured, web-based data and sharing platform with full read and write access. It is built on open source software and standards to support reuse and extensibility of the software. It aims to provide functions to describe, manage, analysis, visualize, link and present different type of environmental data (e.g. time series data, geodata, documents …) and the corresponding metadata. Due to the fine gained user and permission management and multilingual support (e.g. Vietnamese) RBIS can also serve as information system for local stakeholder and external scientists. The software platform RBIS using the example Vu Gia Thu Bon RBIS will be briefly presented.