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Organization
CREA (Centro Ricerche di Ecologia Ambientale, or Center for Research for Environmental Ecology)

Market
Geospatial

Location
Venice, Italy

Project Objectives

  • Save the city of Venice from flooding, and protect the fragile ecosystem of Venice's lagoon
  • Develop and use complex MicroStation-based mathematical models to simulate tides and waves within the lagoon

Fast Facts

  • CREA developed its three MefLag models, which simulate wave propagation and environmental conditions in bays and lagoons
  • CREA has also developed HydNet, which simulates pressure networks, and FlowNet, which simulates reclamation and sewage system networks
  • These models operate in MicroStation, integrating GIS data for water resources design and management
  • CREA is also exploring linking its mathematical models with satellite images

Bentley Products Used

  • MicroStation

Venice is in danger of slowly disappearing under the waves of the lagoon upon which it was built twelve hundred years ago. Complex mathematical models that work in MicroStation are being used to help keep it afloat.The conservation work is being done by CREA, on behalf of Consorzio Venezia Nuova.

CREA CEO Andrea Garzon explains how MicroStation is especially suited to handle such complex formulas and the associated data they require.

"MicroStation has been fundamental to the success of our models because they require a lot of different data sets to run," Garzon says. "Without such a powerful and efficient application, we wouldn’t be able to process the enormous amount of information we need to manipulate in these models effectively. Only MicroStation has been able to manage vast territories of geographical information with extreme facility, flexibility and speed."
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