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SNIRH - National Information System on Water Resources

Thematic Area
Innovation
Location
Portugal
Application Areas
Water Resources
Scope
Business
SNIRH
Information system interface
Information system interface
Information system interface

Entity

Description

Design and development of the SNIRH until 2002, when it was transferred to INAG. SNIRH, now managed by the APA, brings together all data from more than 10 monitoring networks, 1500 stations and 250 associated parameters at time intervals ranging from minute to year. SNIRH has a three-tier architecture supported by an Oracle database that contains alpha-numeric and geographic data and allows querying the monitoring networks and the analysis of time series of environmental variables.

Objectives

  • To safeguard of monitoring data
  • To offer data analysis tools for water management
  • To make publicly available information on the monitoring of water resources

Results

A pioneering system that provides information on water resources since 1997 and that still remains operational today.