19^th International CODATA Conference
Category: Poster

The Use Of Information Resources On The State Of The Marine Environment To Support The Decisions Based On Web - Technologies

Denis Ignatenko (idenis@meteo.ru) and Dr.Sc. Evgeny Vyazilov (vjaz@meteo.ru)
All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia

The way out is to develop a decision support system (DSS) to be used by the economic object relying on the environmental information and to deliver the required information to users not in the form of figures, but in the form of maps and graphs combining the current, predicted and climatic long-term values of the relevant parameters, as well as in the form of the text with draft decisions and proposed measures. As a result decision makers save time needed to analyze the forecasting, climatic and other information. Entrusting this work to the system generating decisions when the environment is outside the general pattern we can be assured that DSS itself will inform on the probable environmental impact on the economy. The results of the information analysis become accessible to decision makers at any time and in any place and can be delivered via various communication channels (E-mail, SMS, Web portal, etc.). DSS holds a base of knowledge in the form rules, linking environment state with the information on impacts and recommendations on mitigation as well as recommendations for decision support. To make the system work in such a way the search and processing of information resources containing the current, forecasting and climatic information is being performed and a multidimensional database covering all values of the environmental parameters affecting the economy is being developed. The risk assessment model being included into DSS will allow a quantitative assessment of the hazard. It is proposed to assess the risk by the empirical estimation of the impact of each event (parameter), e.g. the impact of air temperature, wind speed, sea level, waves, ice on the ship. In this process the features of the object, i.e. age of the ship, displacement of the ship are taken into account. For that the Fuzzy Logic method can be used. DSS is incorporated into the Web portal of the Unified System of Information on the State of the World Ocean (http://www.oceaninfo.ru) as a workstation tuned to a specific object of the economy.