At the end of 2000, EPA has planned environmental database system architecture in order to instantly provide complete, accurate and valid environmental information to all users. Environmental Database Planning and Development Project is then executed to establish a sustainable operating environment for database development and management system that integrated existing environmental data from all operating units. The general public, EPA departments, and inter-ministerial government agencies, then, have a common platform to access the comprehensive environment information. In year 2009 and 2010, Environmental Quality Data Warehousing Project and Environmental Quality Geographic Data Exchange Standards and Value-Added Applications Project were completed with Web GIS applications as data sharing platform and total of eight categories of GML standard, i.e., air quality, water quality, soil pollution, waste, pollution prevention, environmental health, noise and vibration, and non-ionizing atomic radiation, for later on data exchange to follow. This year’s project continues on to implement data conversion and tool development for 6 GML data standards, including soil, pollution, waste, pollution prevention, noise and vibration, environmental health, and non-ionizing atomic radiation. The outcomes can also be utilized as reference and base for newly updated data and new data type conversion. This project has also enhanced, augment and maintain the following EPA systems and applications, Environmental geographic information System, Living Environmental Information and Environmental Instant Messenger App following the guide from EPA to strengthen GIS service via extend the data richness and improve data accuracy. In order to better make use of existing EPA GIS service platform, an ArcGIS for Server upgrade plan (from 10.0 to 10.2) is also provided. The migration can result in better mapping performance, better service utilization and a new easy to configure a GIS portal for environmental data, map, and presentation, story sharing and open GIS data exchange.

Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Quality Data, Data Standard