## 2 Materials and Methods
### Methodology  
The WebGIS platform allows the display of geospatial data on the website with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) protocols such Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Feature Service with transactions (WFS-T), and Web Coverage Service (WCS) and allows displays on a web page both from PC and smartphone. The creation of the maps of the layer components, the organization, and the preparation of the data was carried out through the QGIS Desktop program version 3.4 and, subsequently, following various operations including the management of the scales, basic levels, meta data, preparation for QGIS server, and additional function settings, these were displayed within the Lizmap web client application (Figure 3). The various geographic data, once obtained and stored in GIS, were published and transformed into geo-services into WebGIS. A geo-service allows the consultation, the processing, and the return of geographic data through the internet. OGC defines the common aspects of the OpenGIS Web Service (OWS) and provides a software interface through which other applications' clients can access and use geospatial data located remotely. This communication is based on extensible markup language (XML) through the HTTP communication protocol; so that the service that is made available is independent to the platform and operating system. The publication of geo-services can take place in two different ways:  
* WebGIS: publication of geographic information data through an interactive web page that does not require the use of specific GIS software for their use.
* Geo web service: a particular architecture that allows the return of geographic data located remotely through specific protocols, following a request made either through a simple web browser or through specific client applications.  
Both these approaches were used for the BESS project to allow data visualization both remotely (GIS desktop) and via WebGIS. The OWS services used for the usability of the data were WMS, for raster data, and WFS, for vector data. The database was made usable as a geo-service through the QGIS Server application and was subsequently made accessible online through the Lizmap client interface. This application was chosen because it uses the same libraries as the QGIS Desktop application and, therefore, it allows maps with complex graphical representations to be published with the same characteristics as the Desktop application, while keeping all the parameters defined in QGIS desktop unchanged. The main advantage of QGIS Server is undoubtedly the integration with QGIS Desktop itself; it also does not require specific skills in the field of publishing web services and significantly shortens processing times. Once QGIS Server has created the standard geo-services (WMS/WFS), the Lizmap client interface can publish data online. This interface was chosen as it can be configured from a plugin (Lizmap) within QGIS Desktop and does not require special knowledge of programming languages. While in the present study, a dataset with data of different spatial resolutions was used, the BESS WebGIS allows the visualization of information at the scale of 1:2257. This is in accordance with the Open  
Figure 3: Chart flow methodology of BESS WebGIS implementation.  
Street Map basemap included. However, this scale can be improved and reach 1:1128 by disactivating the underlying basemap.