Platform has new functionalities and interactive navigation to improve understanding of the recovery process of the Doce River Basin
The Monitoring Portal was reformulated and, now, the information on the quality of the water in the Doce River is more didactic, in a light and interactive interface. The proposal is to make the information and transparency tool even closer to the public. In addition to the more than 1.5 million data generated per year, the platform provides a graphical view of the results at all monitoring points and water quality indices. Click here to discover the new Monitoring Portal.
Conducted by the Renova Foundation, through the Quali-Quantitative Systematic Water and Sediment Monitoring Program (PMQQS), the Portal strengthens the PMQQS objective of generating and making available to the CIF system, public and private institutions and the population in general, a reliable database of water and sediment quality and quantity, with physical, chemical and biological parameters.
The new Portal was implemented in partnership with the six environmental agencies that monitor and supervise the PMQQS – see below. The development stages had the participation of a multidisciplinary team. According to the coordinator of Water Monitoring, Brígida Maioli, the modernization of the Portal was designed to expand access to information. “In addition to navigation, which will be more interactive and intuitive, the way of presenting the data will facilitate interpretation so that ordinary citizens, and not only researchers and interested parties, can clearly follow the results of the PMQQS and the work being carried out”, he explains.
What has changed?
The platform presents improvements in the visualization of information made available in maps, reports, technical notes and links to related sites. New features were incorporated into the platform, such as Business Intelligence (BI) resources integrated into the geoprocessing tool (ArcGis) to improve performance in the presentation of graphs and tables.
Navigation has also been expanded. One of the possibilities will be to search in graphs all the sampling points of the PMQQS, in addition to the water quality indices that group a set of parameters to facilitate the communication of information.
How does it work?
The Doce River Basin is now one of the most monitored in Brazil. Monitoring began in 2017 and currently has 82 monitoring points and 22 automatic stations, which provide real-time information, distributed over 690 km of rivers and lakes, and 244 km along the coastal and estuarine zones of Espírito Santo.
On the Monitoring Portal, it is possible to follow the Conventional Monitoring, which presents the results of water quality and sediments for the points located in the Doce River and its tributaries, lagoons, estuaries and coastal zone. In Automatic Monitoring, data generated by automatic stations are available.
The platform disseminates PMQQS data, which is conducted by the Renova Foundation under the guidance and supervision of the Technical Monitoring Group (GTA-PMQQS), formed by six public institutions:
- National Agency for Water and Basic Sanitation(ANA);
- Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Renewable Resources(Ibama);
- Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conversation(ICMBio);
- State Water Management Institute of Minas Gerais(IGAM);
- State Water Resources Agency of Espirito Santo(Agerh);
- State Institute for the Environment and Water Resources(IEMA).
PMQQS
The Quali-Quantitative Systematic Water and Sediment Monitoring Program (PMQQS) was implemented on July 31, 2017 and is one of the programs for repairing the damage caused by the Fundão dam collapse, in Mariana (MG). In July, the Program completed five years and is now a national reference.
International representation
The Doce River Monitoring Portal was one of the highlights of the Esri User Conference 2022, the largest international conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), held in the United States. ArcGIS was used in the creation of the platform and the experience with the tool was presented by the Water Monitoring coordinator, Brigida Maioli, and the IT specialist, Flávio Nery, in a plenary session. The collaborators explained about the structure of the PMQQS and the entire effort to create the Portal.
Learn more about actions carried out in the Doce River Basin.