Environmental Information Systems

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Environmental Information Systems Ministry of
Environment and Forestry
Serpil ERYIGIT Chief of Project and Software
Development Department Ankara /
Türkiye 12.11.2008
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Agenda

• Environmental Information System(EIS)
• Special Waste Information System(SWIS)
• Hazerdous Waste Information System
• Package and Package Waste Control System
• Air Quality Monitoring Network System
• Water Database
• Turkey Environmental Information Exchange
  Network(TEIEN)

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Environmental Information System(EIS)
http//cbs.cevreorman.gov.tr/sso

• EIS is main software system of MoEF, for
  collecting and manipulating environmental
  information.

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Main Components of the EIS

• Environmental Modules
• Information Management Module
• Geographical Information System

• EIS Administration Module
• Business Intelligence

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Environmental Modules of EIS

• Inspection
• State of the Environment Reporting

• Waste
• Water
• Soil

• Sea and Coast
• Air
• Noise

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Information Management Modules of EIS

• Easy data import with CSV Format

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Special Waste Information System
http//yazilimnet.cevreorman.gov.tr/swis/

• Goal of SWIS project is, to generate dynamic
  reports from the obtained data and provide
  tracing of the forms that involved companies are
  responsible for sending necessary documents to
  Ministry of Environment and Forestry during the
  process of production of private, dangerous and
  non dangerous products until the disposal.

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Hazardous Waste Record System The proposed
project aims

• To support the Hazardous Waste at the Ministry
  of Environment and Forestry to monitor and manage
  its administrative tasks efficiently,
• To fulfil the requirements of the Regulation on
  Hazardous Waste Control
• To fulfil the reporting obligations towards
  national requirements and towards the European
  Union
• To strengthen the data processing system of MoEF.

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Hazardous Waste Record System http//tuikapp.tuik
.gov.tr/cevreAtik/
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Hazardous Waste Record System Results

• About 41.000 companies identified
• About 20.000 companies notified by provinces
• About 6.700 companies accessed the system
• About 3.600 companies recorded waste data

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Package and Package Waste Control System
http//cbs.cevreorman.gov.tr/ambalaj/

• To fulfil the requirements of the Regulation
  on Package and Package Waste Control system
• More than 4500 Facilities use the Information
  System

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Air Quality Monitoring Networkhttp//www.havaizle
me.gov.tr/

• Air Quality Monitoring Network reports the air
  quality data daily all geographical regions.
• Air quality is monitored with a network of
  measuring stations

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Air Quality Monitoring Networkhttp//www.havaizle
me.gov.tr/

• More than 100 stations, data are usually updated
  every hour during daytime
• Results are presented in the form of tables and
  graphs.

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The Changes of Climate and The Substances that
Thin The Ozon Layerhttp//otim.cevreorman.gov.tr/

• To fulfil the requirements of the Regulation
  on Reducing The Substances that Thin the Ozone
  Layer
• Monitoring the imports and using of the
  chemicals

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Water Database Projecthttp//dsisvt.dsibim.local/

• Underground Water Applications
• Dam Management
• Irregation

• Observation
• Water Quality
• Underground Water Well

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Water Database ProjectPropesed aim of the
project

• Monitoring and managing water level observation
  stations,
• To management of dams,
• Water quality and analysis results,
• Underground water well positions, management,
  analysis.

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Turkish Environmental Information Exchange
Network (TEIEN)

• TEIEN will create an environment over which
  participants shall exchange regular environmental
  data through the mechanisms and applications to
  be developed. The system will also serve advanced
  reporting tools and GIS-enabled decision support
  tools for geo-referenced environmental data.
• Supported under 2006 EU Financial Cooperation
  Programme
• Duration
• 16 months

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Turkish Environmental Information Exchange
Network (TEIEN)Project Description

• Stakeholders
• Main beneficiary MoEF and 81 Provinces
• Several ministries
• Various great city municipalities
• Private sector
• Non-governmental organizations

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Turkish Environmental Information Exchange
Network (TEIEN)Expected Results

• The relevant national institutions together with
  MoEF enhance their capability of accessing,
  querying, reporting, visualising the
  environmental data in a timely and consistent
  manner.
• The capacity of the members of the Turkish EIONET
  structure and NFP team is enhanced.
• Environmental Information Management System based
  on XML based Data Exchange Framework
• GIS Integration

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Turkish Environmental Information Exchange
Network (TEIEN)Expected Results

• Decision Support Tools
• 6 DSS Tools defined data requirements,
  problem solving procedures, methodologies to be
  used, possibility for change
• Modules
• 1. Module on Environmental Values and Pollution
  Maps
• 2. State of Environment Reporting Module
• 3. Environmental Problems and Priorities
  Reporting Module
• 4. Environmental Impact Assessment Module
• 5. Monitoring and Inspection Module

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Turkish Environmental Information Exchange
Network (TEIEN)Expected Results

• TEIEN Portal
• Publish publicly available environmental data
• Easy and controlled access to environmental
  data
• Capacity building
• MoEFs and stakeholders staff
• Trainings, workshops, etc.

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Turkish Environmental Information Exchange
Network (TEIEN)Trainings

• Study visits (IS implementations, environmental
  indicators, DSS implementations)
• Environmental indicators workshops
• DSS workshops
• TEIEN system trainings
• State of environment reporting workshops
• System management training
• GIS workshops

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• Overall Objective The overall objective is to
  Enable Turkey to achieve a high level of
  environmental protection and enable compliance
  with the EU access to environmental information
  and reporting directives.
• Specific Objectives
• 1. Provision of TA in Development of new
  requirements and resolution of identified bugs of
  the current Environmental Information System
  (EIS)
• 2. Provision of TA for Establishment of Change
  Management Group in MoEF to evaluate and
  implement the needs and changes to the EIS
• 3. Provision of TA in Maintenance of EIS
• 4. Provision of TA in establishing query and
  reporting environment for EIS

• Thanks for your attention

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Turkish Environmental Information Exchange
Network (TEIEN)Objectives

• Service all sectors and levels of government,
• Provide an effective means to improve the
  performance of environmental management actions,
• Improve the national state of readiness to
  respond to environmental emergencies,
• Respond to National objectives identified and
  the 8th Five Year Development Plan and others.

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Turkish Environmental Information Exchange
Network (TEIEN)Objectives

• To strengthen inter-institutional communication
  and collaboration,
• Effective mechanism to support government
  policies, integrate environmental safeguards to
  the policy, programming and planning process,
  direct investments in the environment sector .
• Improve the effectiveness of environmental
  management actions.
• TEIEN will contribute significantly to the
  realization of Government objectives to improve
  information exchange between institutions as a
  critical element necessary to effectively manage
  and mitigate current and future environmental
  issues and impacts.