Environmental Decision Support Systems as a Service: Demonstration on CE-QUAL-W2 Model

Water

Scott Wells¹  Amir Cahn²  Yoav Bornstein²  Mashor Housh²  Ben Dayan³ 

[1] Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA;Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Haifa, 2611001 Haifa, Israel;Independent Researcher, 821735 Hadera, Israel;

关键词: CE-QUAL-W2;    EDSS;    SaaS;   

DOI  :  10.3390/w14060885

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

An environmental decision support system (EDSS) can be used as an important tool for the rehabilitation and preservation of ecosystems. Nonetheless, high assimilation costs (both money and time) are one of the main reasons these tools are not widely adopted in practice. This work presents a low-cost paradigm of “EDSS as a Service.” This paradigm is demonstrated for developing a water quality EDSS as a service that utilizes the well-known CE-QUAL-W2 model as a kernel for deriving optimized decisions. The paradigm is leveraging new open-source technologies in software development (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm) with cloud computing to significantly reduce the assimilation costs of the EDSS for organizations and researchers working on the rehabilitation and preservation of water bodies.

【 授权许可】

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