Documentation / Online Handbook
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In the following overview, the application demands of the EIS and GIS to the thematic main points will be briefly summarised. A detailed tabular representation of the fundamental principles and results can be found in the appendix.
| Athens | Application Demands |
| Air | Trends and results from statistical analyses for CO, NO and NO2 contamination. |
| Propagation computation and simulation models for 2D- (contamination region) and 3D-representations (ozone and photo oxidation). | |
| Climate | Point maps for all important climatic parameters over many years (since 1858), daily and hourly values. |
| Climatic contour maps for temperature and rainfall. | |
| Land Use | Land usage on building levels in nine categories (1994 enquiry) of the GIS (scale 1:2000). |
| Conducting and extrapolating targets of building heights and construction characteristics for every building as well as monument protection and renovation requirements (scale 1:1000). | |
| Conducting and extrapolating plans for protected areas and areas worth protecting, road systems and general land usage plans. | |
| Soil | Geological and hydrogeological parameters for the Attica region (scale 1:50000). |
| Traffic | Traffic emissions (NO, NO2, O3 and SO2). |
| Water | For the Attica region: data for groundwater (occurrences, depth etc.) and for surface area water (scale 1:50000). |
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Flood risk maps from calculated fundamental principles.
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| Berlin | Application Demands |
| Air | Emissions of SO2, NOx, dust and CO2 in the form of point and grid maps calculated on the basis of air system results and interpolation. |
| Pollution for different parameters in the form of grid maps and calculated on the basis of bio-indicators and interpolation. | |
| Climate | Temperature: near-surface wind speed; climatic zones; climatic functions; day and night near-surface temperatures. |
| Land Use | Land usage; green and open spaces; development of open space; city structure. |
| Maintenance of green and open spaces: population density. | |
| Soil | Topographical land maps; elevation maps; land profiles; sealing; valuable areas; development of open spaces; lead and cadmium in the soil; areas of suspected dangerous waste; presence of heavy metals in the soil. |
| Soil communities; soil classification. | |
| Traffic | Traffic density; traffic noise. |
| Traffic noise in green and open spaces; emissions from traffic. | |
| Water |
Quality of surface water areas; quality of near-surface water; fish fauna.
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| Milan | Application Demands |
| Air | Traffic emissions; thermal power stations; agriculture; grid maps of biogenic emissions in different grid magnitudes. |
| Interpolated maps of pollution from CO, O3, PTS, NO, NO2, NOx and SO2 from the basis of point acceptor measurements; grid maps of pollution acceptors from stationary sources on the basis of propagation computation. | |
| Climate | Climate maps and trend analyses for temperature, wind direction and wind speed, air pressure, humidity, acid rain. |
| 3D representations for wind fields from the basis of model calculations. | |
| Land Use | Land use to 14 main categories at a resolution of 1,000 m². |
| Land usage maps. | |
| Cultural heritage based on historical documents, photos and legal binds. | |
| Parks and reservations. | |
| Recreational plans. | |
| Route system for footways and bicycle paths. | |
| Historically and agriculturally valuable areas. | |
| Soil | Soil quality and fertility. |
| Traffic | Traffic volume. |
| Traffic emissions on the basis of model calculations. | |
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Analyses of traffic density and route systems.
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| Moscow | Application Demands |
| Air | Contour maps for SO2, NO2, CO and airborn particles |
| General emissions on a grid basis. | |
| Climate | Tesoclimate zoning in accordance with the metereological potential of air pollution (MPAP). |
| Land Use | Land use for four usage types. |
| Soil | Heavy metal contamination of the soil. |
| Biotope | Preserved areas under particular protection. |
| Evaluation of green space quality. | |
| Traffic | Atmospheric pollution through traffic emissions. |
| Water |
Quality of surface water.
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| Rome | Application Demands |
| Air | Map of the results of pollution measurements for CO, NO, NO2 and SO2. |
| Benzene pollution from stationary sources. | |
| Land Use | Ground coverage based on "Landsat TM", topographical maps, digital land models and aerial photographs. |
| Maps of the distribution of plants, insects and birds. | |
| Vegetation maps. | |
| Water | Groundwater depth; direction of groundwater flow; cover of groundwater; wells and groundwater extraction. |
| Quality of groundwater (coliform bacteria). | |
| Water systems with direct discharge and waste water installations. | |
| Quality of surface water. |