Decision-support Systems for groundwater protection: Innovative tools for resource management

摘要

Governmental authorities are forced by law to take decisions within the frame-work of European, national and regional directives in the fields of spatial planning, ground water and environmental protection. These tasks can be supported by a decision-support system, which integrates data from various sources and helps to make decision processes more effective and transparent. Basic work for such a decision support system has been done in a transnational and interdisciplinary project (Interreg IIc; KATER), including metadata definition, metadata system, cartographic tools and GIS tools. The direct integration of these tools and information in the decision process will be implemented in the next years (project KATER II).