DECSIRA

The service is set up for the * * government * * and the * * protection of the territory * *,

* * participatory planning * *, awareness raising * * and

* * citizen engagement * *. The Environmental Knowledge System is a

platform for exploiting alphanumeric and geographical knowledge

produced in the context of SIRA Piemonte (Environmental Information System)

Piedmont Region). It takes the form of a network of cooperation between

entities producing and/or holding information of environmental interest

(Region, Province and ARPA) and was born in order to support development

environmental knowledge for the activities of: Government and planning

investee; promoting the competitiveness of the territory;

empowerment; accessibility to

public information.

The system is aimed at different public and private users:

— Public administration (Region, Province, ARPA,...)

— Citizens

The data made available in the system shall be collected through:

multiple processes:

— Dematerialisation of administrative procedures;

— Monitoring systems (manual or automatic) state/pressure
environment

— Data collection on specific matrices (e.g. Observers Waste/Water...);

— Pressure/risk factors...

The system provides access to the consultation of data through:

free search and/or through access organised in thematic categories

(data catalogues such as the INSPIRE Directive Catalogue and the Information Catalogue
Environmental;

environmental Thematic Categories – Air, Clean-up, Authorised Enterprises in
field

environmental, waste, etc.).

For each data element, the following shall be made available:

— the summary description of the individual data/dataset and thematic view;

— the metadata sheet published on the geographic portal of the supplier and/or

data distributor (CSW service);

with specific consultation functions such as:

— simple consultation on the map of geographical data (WMS services)

— consultation of detailed dataset information based on

alphanumeric and/or geographical searches on data returning views of

reporting type and individual detail cards on objects (WFS services

complex feature type)

— categorisation of indicators: number of statistical classes, categorisation

colours, ranges of classes, type of statistical classification are user-configurable

(US WFS services).

— access to attachments via url to document archiving services

— the view report data – summary data/list of results of the

search – are user-configurable and exportable in csv and/or

ESRI shapefile;

— the detailed sheet is exportable in pdf format

All data made available on the platform are displayed and/or used

open Spatial Consortium (OGC) standard interoperability services such as

provided for in the INSPIRE Directive.