The Veneto sea data system: model of datawarehouse for all Veneto marine _environment monitoring and study activities

The Environmental Protection and Prevention Agency for the Veneto Region manages to ensure that all activities and regional initiatives at a local, extra-regional and cross-border level are integrated to the greatest possible extent to produce homogenous, coherent action throughout the northern part of the Adriatic Sea through the Osservatorio Alto Adriatico (OAA). These activities are developed both through institutional monitoring plans and with specific study and research activities. The Veneto Region (ARPAV) Sea Data System in the making will become a fundamental instrument for the OAA observatory to gather and organize all sea-related information. It will thus give an across-the-board contribution to activities concerning the Veneto coastal marine environment and, at the same time, it will provide tools to aid in the interpretation of environmental data. The system’s structure is currently being set up and has been defined according to the rules of ultimate rationality to enable the widest possible exchange of data.