WIT Press


The Role Of GIS In The Decision Support System ODESSEI (open Architecture Decision Support System For Environmental Impact Assessment)

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

21

Pages

15

Published

1998

Size

1,947 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/GIS980091

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

E. Todini

Abstract

The ODESSEI system, created under the Eureka EU487 project, is a combined Decision Support System (DSS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) designed to fulfil the requirements of river basin management and environmental planning. The system integrates a sophisticated group of models, a database, a GIS and an expert system with a user-friendly graphical interface. The GIS, an extensively re-written version of GRASS, has two fundamental functions: to support the spatial dimension of all the data involved and to ge

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