Abstract

Management Plans National WEB GIS Application for Natura 2000 sites
Track: Environmental Management
Authors: John Smaranda, Iurie Maxim

SINCRON is an ambitious Romanian project (Management and Raising Awareness over Natura2000 Network in Romania Integrated System), having as beneficiary the Romanian National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA).
It is aimed at improving the methods of natural environment preservation and sustainable development by administering all management plans for the Natura2000 protected areas.
Of the web application's six modules, two were the most challenging: the management plan registration and the integration module, so Esri's GIS proved to be perfect technical solution.
The management plan registration involves as a first stage the field work undertaken by the experts for acquiring species and habitats data and uploading it into the GIS database.
Since the system must be integrated with NEPA's Environment Integrated System (SIM), and the environment data is stored in various GIS databases, serving different applications, one of the issues to be solved was avoiding data duplication, while maintaining the performance.