Environmental Decision Support Systems as a Service: Demonstration on CE-QUAL-W2 Model

An environmental decision support system (EDSS) can be used as an important tool for the rehabilitation and preservation of ecosystems. Nonetheless, high assimilation costs (both money time) are one main reasons these tools not widely adopted in practice. This work presents a low-cost paradigm “EDSS Service.” is demonstrated developing water quality EDSS service that utilizes well-known CE-QUAL-W2 model kernel deriving optimized decisions. The leveraging new open-source technologies software development (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) with cloud computing to significantly reduce organizations researchers working on bodies.