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Contract research in the area of Environmental information systems and plant information systems
For us, contract research means finding transparent and practicable solutions for the problems that our customers or conveyor institutes present. Our participation in the most varied research projects has led to an extensive list of publications. Some examples can be found on this page.
Data exchange
A subject relevant also for practical use, is the question of the organisation of data exchange between different data models of equal or superior technical questions. We have developed, based on XML, an attachment which allows the definition of an interface data model which is capable of collecting data from various specific data models at the exchange of waste water discharge data .
Construction of an Emissions Inventory Water for the Federal Republic of Germany
We were contracted by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) to develop a concept for the compilation of the generic database tool UDIS for the construction of a Water Emissions Inventory. Based on this concept, UDIS has been transformed into a working database software. With these database tools a considerable shortening of the development time and a systematisation in the production of specific data models is attainable.
Built on the UDIS basic concept, several other research and development plans were carried out for other environmental issues. The central research theme for its use is the analysis of the available or required data and its organisation to fulfil the objective in the field of environmental protection.
EPER (European Pollutant Emission Register)
The European government requires its member states to provide data on their emissions into the air and water (EPER). RISA transformed this formal request into a data collection, under the project leadership of the Federal Agency for the Environment, Recording and Nature Protection in Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) for the Federal Environment Agency.
MONERIS (Modelling Nutrient Emissions in Riverine Systems)
On contract for the Federal Environment Agency to develop the program system MONERIS. Its function is the determination of nutrient discharges from non-point sources and from point sources in the river basins of Germany. As part of a MONERIS follow-up project financed by the Federal Environment Agency, RISA transformed the MONERIS calculation model, which had previously been in Excel format, into a database application. In doing this, special consideration was taken that the used basic data and the model equations and model parameters were adequately documented and that descriptive information could be entered and recorded with the data.
