This project assembled the environmental information from Kaoshiung city, Pingtung county, Taitung county and 60 townships on 1459 pages. This project uses geography information system to exhibit the related data about section, topography, geology, soil, climate, hydrology, how to use of the ground, and traffic transportation…etc. And connect with EPA’s environmental information system to be convenient for user to understand the latest and immediately environment information. Besides, this website has passed the web accessibility test and was applying the registration by the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan. The web site was located at http://ivy2.epa.gov.tw/envdb/.
.The overall environmental quality has experienced improvement under the efforts of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA). In order to provide research needs and management decision-making as well as public information, we must develop a comprehensive environmental information databank to promptly offer a complete, correct and effective data and information.
This project was to establish the information for Kaohsiung City, Pingtung County and Taitung County. The data and information include zone development, natural environment, socio-economic conditions, environmental quality and environmental sensitive area. From collection, analysis, and selection to integration, the information was integrated into designed web pages for viewing, searching, and downloading. In addition, the project also required to collect the reports from these cities and counties and to integrate into the comprehensive databank in order to provide unbiased, objective information for effective decision-making in environmental changes and management.
In addition, this project visit the Environmental Protection Bureaus of counties and cities to collected 34 electronic report files. Both condensed Chinese and English abstracts of these reports were uploaded to the Meta Databank of EPA.
