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Information and Decision Support Systems for the
Norwegian Coastal Environment
Bruce Hackett, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
(met.no)

• The Message
• Technologies are being developed and implemented
  to facilitate easy access to marine environmental
  monitoring information and data for viewing,
  sharing and value-adding for a wide range of
  users.
• Keywords
• diversity of information/data
• integration of existing information
• web services
• interoperability
• Summary
• Why?
• The web is where the users want to look
• To support decision making in crisis situations
  (oil spills, HAB, etc.) ? real-time, prognostic
• To support planning and evaluation of
  environmental management policies ? databases,
  scenarios
• To facilitate scientific research, esp.
  inter-disciplinary ? all info on the state of the
  environment
• To raise public awareness

Fig. 5 Web Feature Service example WFS
facilitates access to information on map
features. In this example, the features are
regions of different ice types as defined in the
Norwegian Ice Charting Service. They are rendered
in the WMS client as color-coded polygons.
Selecting an area produces an XML-coded
description of the impinged polygons. In this
case, the xml-encoding allows the result to be
ingested directly into an electronic sea chart
application.