Holistic environment system analysis; automated hydrological monitoring sensor networks; process oriented conceptual landscape model of Response Units (RU); integration of remote sensing, GIS and model parametrization; distributed modelling of water and solute transport dynamics; applied Geoinformatics in IWRM and integrated landscape management; Jena Environmental System Analysis Toolset (JESAT); Decision and Information Support Tool (DIST); impact analysis of climate change (CC) and adaptation for sustainable IWRM and landscape management.

The conceptual integrated approach is realized by means of the Jena Environment System Analysis Toolset (JESAT) which schematically is shown in Fig. 1.

Scientific Services will be offered in all components shown in Fig. 1 and relate to professional services including applied research training courses in (1) joint field campaigns, (2) modelling case studies in RSSC river basins, (3) training of model development and integrated JESAT application research projects and (4) research proposal writing. These initiatives are complemented by intensive cooperation and integration of (5) SME from active in the field of applied Geoinformatics and innovative environment and water technologies and the (6) cooperation with the MSc-Geoinformatics curriculum at the FSU-Jena.

DGHM developed the Jena Environment System Analysis Toolset (JESAT) available for implementation and further enhancement in the RSSC and its respective benchmark basins. JESAT has been developed within the last 10 years and has been tested successfully in international cooperation projects in Africa, Asia, Australia, Brazil and Europe. It comprises the following components:

• The conceptual and process based Response Units (RU) landscape model to delineate distributed model entities based on a comprehensive landscape system analysis.
• GIS models developed in ArcGIS, ArcView and GRASS for user controlled RU delineation using digital data layers of landscape features, i.e. topography, land use and land cover (LULC), soils, geology, etc.
• The hydrological J2000 model suite for hydrological water balance analysis (J2000), water and solute transport (J2000-S) and impact assessment of climate change on the hydrological dynamics in river basins (J2000-g).
• The Jena Adaptable Modelling System (JAMS) providing (1) for practitioners functionalities of a sophisticated model runtime platform and (2) for model developers a modular model framework environment for research model development.
• The web based Adaptable Integrated Data Information System (AIDIS) that implements the full ISO 19115 metadata standard and provides interfaces between the RU properties and the J2000 model suite for data and attribute exchange.

Scientific services offered by DGHM for the RSSC are related to the application of the JESAT concept and toolset. They are contributing the capacity developing concept of par. 2 and are applying the Geoinformatics toolsets described in par. 3.

The services have been developed and provided in different research project carried out since 1995 in Africa, Asia, Australia, Brazil, and Europe and have been applied as well in the EC-Project Integrated Water Management (INWAMA) in China and India.

The DGHM of the FSU-Jena is offering a 2-year interdisciplinary MSc-Curriculum of Geoinformatics which attracted international attention. Together with project related PhD-programs and international research projects in Africa and overseas a high potential research expertise is offered that ranges from toolset development in Geoinformatics to the applied system assessment and analysis for modelling studies, IWRM and decision support for adaptive land and water resources management.


Tab. 1:Scientific services offered to the RSSC by the DGHM of the FSU-Jena

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Dahlke, H., Helmschrot, J., and Behrens, T. (2005): A GIS-based terrain analysis approach for inventory of wetland in the semi-arid headwaters of the Umzimvubu basin, South Africa. In: Erasmi, S., Cyffka, B., Kappas, M. (eds.): Remote Sensing and GIS for Environmental Studies. Göttinger Geographische Abhandlungen, 113, 78-86

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Flügel, W.-A., Michl, C., Krause, P., Kralisch, S., Fink, M., Helmschrot, J., Busch, C., Böhm, B., and Bende-Michl, U. (2009): The dewnet network: JESAT a toolset for environment system assessment, analysis and management. – 18th World IMACS / MODSIM Congress, Cairns, Australia 13-17 July 2009, http://mssanz.org.au/modsim09

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Flügel, W.-A. (2007): The Adaptive Integrated Data Information System (AIDIS) for global water research. Water Resources Management (WARM) Journal, 21, 199-210

Flügel, W.-A. and Märker, M. (2003): The Response Units Concept and Its Application for the Assessment of Hydrologically Related Erosion Processes in Semiarid Catchments of Southern Africa. ASTM-STP 1420, 163-177

Flügel, W.-A. (1995): Delineating Hydrological Response Units (HRU's) by GIS analysis for regional hydrological modelling using PRMS/MMS in the drainage basin of the River Bröl, Germany. - Hydrological Processes, 9, 423-436

Flügel, W.-A., Müschen, B., Hochschild, V. & Steinocher, K. (2000): ARSGISIP, A European Project on the application of remote sensing techniques for the parameterization of Hydrological, Erosion and Solute Transport Models. - IAHS-Publ., 267, 563-568

Flügel, W.-A., Michl, C., Krause, P., Kralisch, S., Fink, M., J. Helmschrot, J., Busch, C., Böhm, B., and Bende-Michl, U. (2009): The dewnet network: JESAT a toolset for environment system assessment, analysis and management. Proc. 18th World IMACS / MODSIM Congress, Cairns, Australia 13-17 July 2009

Helmschrot, J. (2006a): An integrated, landscape-based approach to model the formation and hydrological functioning of wetlands in semiarid headwater catchments of the Umzimvubu River, South Africa. Sierke Verlag, Göttingen, 314 p. ISBN: 3-933893-75-5.

Helmschrot, J. (2006b): Assessment of temporal and spatial effects of landuse changes on wetland hydrology: a case study from South Africa. In: Kotowski, W., Maltby, E., Miroslaw– Swiatek, D., Okruszko, T. and Szatylowicz, J. (eds): Wetlands: modelling, monitoring, management, Taylor & Francis The Netherlands/ A.A. Balkema Publisher, 197-204

Helmschrot, J., and Flügel, W.-A. (2002): Land use characterization and change detection analysis for hydrological model parameterisation of large scale afforested areas using remote sensing. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 27, 711-718.

Kralisch, S., Krause, P., Fink, M., Fischer, C. and Flügel, W.-A. (2007): Component based environmental modelling using the JAMS framework. - In: Kulasiri, D. and Oxley, L. (eds.): MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007.

Kralisch, S. and Krause, P. (2007): JAMS - A Framework for Natural Resource Model Development and Application. In: A. Voinov, A., Jakeman, A. and A.E. Rizzoli, A.E. (eds.): Proceedings of the iEMSs Third Biannual Meeting "Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software", Burlington, USA, July 2006. Int. Env. Modelling and Software Society.

Kralisch, S., M. Fink & C. Beckstein (2005a): Neural Network Based Sensitivity Analysis of Natural Resource Models. Zerger, A., and Argent, R.M. (eds.): Proc. MODSIM 2005, December 2005, 2498–2504

Kralisch, S., Krause, P., and David, O. (2005b): Using the object modeling system for hydrological model development and application. Advances in Geosciences, 4, 75–81

Kralisch, S., Fink, M., Flügel, W.-A., and Beckstein, C. (2003). A neural network approach for the optimization of watershed management.. Environmental Modelling and Software, 18(8- 9):815–23.

Krause, P. (2002): Quantifying the impact of land use changes on the water balance of large catchments using the J2000 model. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 27, 663-673

Krause, P. and Flügel, W.-A. (2005). Model Integration and Development of Modular Modelling Systems. Advances in Geosciences, 4, 1-2

Krause, P., and Hanisch, S. (2009): Simulation and analysis of the impact of projected climate change on the spatially distributed water balance in Thuringia, Germany. Advances in Geosciences, 7, 1-16

Krause, P., Bende-Michl, U., Bäse, F., Fink, M., Flügel, W.-A., and Pfennig, B. (2006): Investigations in a Mesoscale Catchment – Hydrological Modelling in the Gera Catchment. Advances in Geosciences, Vol. 9, 53-61.

Pfennig, B., Kipka, H., Wolf, M., Fink, M., Krause, P. and Flügel, W.-A. (2009). Development of an extended spatially distributed routing scheme and its impact on process oriented hydrological modelling results. - IAHS PUBL., 333, 37-43

Wolf, M., Pfennig, B., Krause, P. and Flügel, W.-A. (2009). Landscape dependent derivation of J2000 model parameters for hydrological modelling in Ungauged Basins. - IAHS PUBL., 333, 1-14