Highlighting continued uncertainty in global land cover maps for the user community [PDF]
, 2011 In the last 10 years a number of new global datasets have been created and new, more sophisticated alorithms have been designed to classify land cover.
Achard, F. +8 more
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Architecture of Environmental Risk Modelling: for a faster and more robust response to natural disasters [PDF]
, 2014 Demands on the disaster response capacity of the European Union are likely to increase, as the impacts of disasters continue to grow both in size and frequency.
de Rigo, Daniele +2 more
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The development and interlinkage of a drought vocabulary in the EuroGEOSS interoperable catalogue infrastructure [PDF]
, 2012 Metadata catalogues are used for facilitating the discovery of data and web services in, e.g., growing collections of Earth observation resources. Two conditions need to be met in order to successfully retrieve resources in catalogues: the metadata ...
Hofer, B. +3 more
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Automated tagging of environmental data using a novel SKOS formatted environmental thesaurus [PDF]
, 2014 There is increasing need to use the widest range of data to address issues of environmental management and change, which is reflected in increasing emphasis from government funding agencies for better management and access to environmental data. Bringing
Harrison, Kathryn A. +2 more
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Discovery and integration of Web 2.0 content into geospatial information infrastructures: a use case in wild fire monitoring [PDF]
, 2011 Efficient environment monitoring has become a major concern for society to guarantee sustainable development. For instance, forest fire detection and analysis is important to provide early warning systems and identify impact.
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D4.1. Observation inventory requirements, database schema and queryable fields [PDF]
, 2015 Report on the observation inventory requirements, database schema and queryable fields to be adopted during the project.
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Assessing the capability of multi-scale drought datasets to quantify drought severity and to identify drought impacts: An example in the Ebro Basin [PDF]
, 2013 Assessing the risk, the severity and the likely evolution of droughts are key tasks for improving preparedness of regions prone to drought conditions, and mitigation of drought consequences.
Camarero, Jesús Julio +9 more
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Uncertainty propagation in the Model Web: A case study with e-Habitat [PDF]
, 2010 e-Habitat is a Web Processing Service (WPS) designed to compute the likelihood of finding ecosystems with equal properties. Inputs to the WPS, typically thematic geospatial ¿layers¿, can be discovered using standardised catalogues, and the outputs ...
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Developing a forest data portal to support multi-scale decision making [PDF]
, 2012 Forests play a pivotal role in timber production, maintenance and development of biodiversity and in carbon sequestration and storage in the context of the Kyoto Protocol.
Ayanz, Jesus-San-Miguel +5 more
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The roles and contributions of Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs) in better tracking progress to 2020 biodiversity targets: a European case study [PDF]
, 2015 The Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity set ambitious goals for protecting biodiversity from further decline. Increased efforts are urgently needed to achieve these targets by 2020.
García Camacho, F.A. +10 more
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