The Gulf Project
Sartec, working together with university departments and research bodies, has developed an innovative project aimed at the implementation of an environmental control and land management system in the gulf of Cagliari. The aim of this research was to create and apply tools for the investigation of environmental quality in the Gulf of Cagliari, in particular the coastal marine environment, capable of providing support and operational guidelines for decision systems in land planning and in both safeguarding and environmental sustainability.
This objective has been reached, analysing components in the environment and the elements likely to impact on them; studying various channels through which pollutants are spread, and designing control models and an appropriate monitoring and control network for this purpose. All data and evaluation instruments were incorporated into a Decision Support System (DSS), which is part of the project. The originality of the project lies in its multidisciplinary approach and in the integration of the socio-economic and environmental aspects in a homogeneous territorial area. This DDS developed by Sartec can also be applied in other land management projects.
The results of the project:
- Studies of the territorial, environmental and socio-economic context of the site;
- Design and realization of environmental monitoring systems;
- Realize simulation models;
- Develop a DSS.
The DSS (Decision Support System), realized within the research project, allows the user to represent and simulate the Gulf of Cagliari environmental real situation by applying interactive consultation procedures; it constitutes an important reference to define sustainable choices, characterized by the full integration of the territorial, environmental, economic and social peculiarities.
The data are organized and presented using indexes and indicators according to the DPSIR Model (Motives, Pressures, State, Impacts, Answers), adapted at European level (EEA 1995), and for environmental themes according to the Environmental Data Yearbook – APAT.
In particular, the following results has been obtained:
- Give instruments to structure and communicate the logical way to represent and analyse the economical, social and environmental effects;
- Manage a big amount of data, including the historical;
- Approach several sources of data on heterogeneous platforms;
- Guarantee the access to interrogations and simulations to different experience level users.
This DDS, developed by Sartec, can also be applied in other land management projects. |
