Citizen-based sensing of crisis events: sensor web enablement for volunteered geographic information [PDF]
, 2011 Thanks to recent convergence of greater access to broadband connections, the availability of Global Positioning Systems in small packages at affordable prices and more participative forms of interaction on the Web (Web 2.0), vast numbers of individuals ...
Cox, Simon +7 more
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Socio-Economic Benefits from the Use of Earth Observations [PDF]
, 2011 This report summarizes the outcomes of the discussion of the workshop on Socioeconomic Benefit from the use of Earth Observation workshop held at JRC from 11 to 13 July 2011.JRC.H.6-Spatial data ...
BORZACCHIELLO MARIA TERESA +1 more
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Open Source Based Deployment of Environmental Data into Geospatial Information Infrastructures [PDF]
, 2012 Today, scientists use local and closed geospatial solutions to run their models and store their results. This may limit their ability to share their models, and results with other interested colleagues.
Díaz Sánchez, Laura +3 more
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Integration of Environmental Models in Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Use Case in Wildfire Risk Prediction [PDF]
, 2013 Achieving sustainable growth in our society implies monitoring our environment in order to measure human impact and detect relevant changes and detrimental driving factors such as wildfires and desertification.
Aragó Galindo, Pau +4 more
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Geospatial information infrastructures to address spatial needs in health: Collaboration, challenges and opportunities [PDF]
, 2013 Most health-related issues such as public health outbreaks and epidemiological threats are better understood from a spatial–temporal perspective and, clearly demand related geospatial datasets and services so that decision makers may jointly make ...
Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar +2 more
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Indicators for mapping ecosystem services: a review [PDF]
, 2012 Ecosystem services are the benefits that humans derive from ecosystems, such as food provisioning, water regulating and provisioning, soil productivity, and use of natural areas for recreation.
DRAKOU Evangelia +4 more
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eHabitat: A Contribution to the Model Web for Habitat Assessments and Ecological Forecasting [PDF]
, 2010 In striving to improve the predictive capabilities of ecological forecasting we face three basic choices ¿ develop new models, improve existing ones or increase the connectivity of models so they can work together.
DUBOIS Gregoire +7 more
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Global-Scale Resource Survey and Performance Monitoring of Public OGC Web Map Services
, 2016 One of the most widely-implemented service standards provided by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to the user community is the Web Map Service (WMS). WMS is widely employed globally, but there is limited knowledge of the global distribution, adoption
Cao, Jun +4 more
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A geographical information system for wild fire management [PDF]
, 2011 he CROSS-Fire project focus on developing a grid-based framework for wild fire management using FireStation (FS) as a standalone application that simulates the fire spread over complex topography.
Esteves, António +3 more
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On the Contribution of Remote Sensing to DOPA, a Digital Observatory for Protected Areas [PDF]
, 2010 The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) is a biodiversity information system currently developed as a set of interoperable web services at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in collaboration with other international ...
BRINK Andreas +8 more
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