Data Management Centre of the Federal Waterways and Shipping Agency, Northern Region Office

摘要

The Data Management Centre (Zentrales Datenmanagement, ZDM) has been operating the portal system since 2008 as an information platform for the northern coastal area, including the estuaries, rivers and canals under the competence of the Federal Government. The main task involved is documenting the construction works carried out on federal waterways within the sphere of competence of the Federal Waterways and Shipping Agency, Northern Region Office (GDWS, Northern Region Office). The ZDM is responsible for distributing technical data and information on hydrology, nature conservation, remote sensing technology and any additional environmental data that is commonly available. In recent years it has been possible to further extend the range of data and information offered. It now also includes plausibility tested time series, complete and consistent digital terrain models, ecological data, data related to the documentation of existing conditions and a database of publications. In addition scoping papers, planning documents and plan approval decisions are provided on an area and project basis on the general entry portal and the five regional portals Tidal Elbe (Tideelbe), Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), North Sea Coast (Nordseekueste) and Baltic Sea Coast (Ostseekueste). The provided data is made available both for manual research and for access through standardised interfaces like Web Mapping Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS) and Sensor Observation Service (SOS). The user can perform spatial searches using a map tool. For visualising a time series a state-of-the-art Sensor Web Client is available.