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- KonferenzbeitragA Webbased application for crowdsourced acquisition of species data in the UNESCO MaB Biosphere Reserve Bliesgau(Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Gülden, Christian; Mattern, Michael; Fischer-Stabel, PeterThe world network of nature reserves has remarkable high natural values (high ecological integrity, high biodiversity, limited human use, rather unstressed systems, resource management is not extractionoriented, etc.) and high cultural values. Especially the UNESCO biosphere reserves comprise ecosystems and people, thus reflecting the human dimension in the environment. It is a network founded upon principles of maintaining biological values while sustaining human populations. In addition, Biosphere reserves serve as laboratories for research and demonstration of ways in progressing towards sustainability of human-environment interactions (including wise-use and economic development). In addition, Biosphere reserves are part of an UNESCO interdisciplinary research program that examines the environmental, social and economic dimensions of biodiversity loss in order to conserve biological and cultural diversity. This is being achieved by providing models of land management and sites of excellence for sustainable development research, environmental monitoring, education and training. To achieve this for the biosphere reserve Bliesgau, it is necessary that a dialogue between environmentalists and the general public will take place to raise awareness of this particular region. The goal is to accomplish this with the help of a web based application that concentrates on featured species, makes them known and encourages the public to take an active part in the preservation. The users can look up detailed information about these species or even interactively assist by seeking these and register them in a map inside the application and provide important information on their finding and the locality. In this way, not only the distribution of the species is mapped, in addition, the people are incorporated into the project Biosphere Bliesgau.
- KonferenzbeitragAn Information Portal for the Research in Nature Reserves: The UNESCO MaB Biosphere Reserve Bliesgau(Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, 2010) Fischer-Stabel, Peter; Mattern, Michael; Schäfer, KerstinBiosphere reserves have three main objectives: conserving biological and cultural diversity; providing models of land management and experimental sites for sustainable development, and serving as sites for research, environmental monitoring, education and training. In order to ensure a longterm and a central and efficient access to the literature and data on such a nature reserve for all scientists from the respective institutions, a research information portal was established. Based on a user requirements analysis, a client-server architecture using open source components was set up. Core modules are a metadata-management component and a map service. Beside the own data, the system is interfacing external data sources (e.g. semantic network service, PortalU-SL, geoportal-SL) using standardized protocols to optimize the information retrieval. The goal is to avoid expensive, redundant data acquisition as well as time-consuming information retrieval for the individual research teams. Furthermore, research becomes more transparent, thus allowing better use of possible synergy effects.
- KonferenzbeitragEnvironmental Data Catalogue: Implementation and Data Quality Issues(Informatics for Environmental Protection - Networking Environmental Information, 2005) Fischer-Stabel, Peter; Krieger, Rolf; Schäfer, Kerstin; Wannemacher, StefanIn Germany the environmental data catalogue was designed as a meta information system for retrieving environmental information held by public authorities. It is providing its user with information about who is having which information at what location. In this paper we discuss some issues concerning the implementation of the environmental data catalogue at public authorities and the management of data quality.
- KonferenzbeitragFunctional and Technical Requirements for a Regional Environmental Information System(Environmental Informatics and Systems Research, 2007) Fischer-Stabel, Peter; Krieger, Rolf; Schäfer, Kerstin; Wannemacher, StefanIn the last decade public authorities have invested large amounts of money and time in metadata management projects in order to provide public access to environmental data held by them. Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information has enforced these activities. But most of the projects are initiated at a national or state level and are restricted to environmental data held by authorities at these levels. But Directive 2003/4/EC is also of importance for public authorities at a regional or local level. Therefore in this paper we discuss some central issues concerning the dissemination of environmental information at regional and local levels by means of Web-based information systems.
- KonferenzbeitragIntegrated Geo-Metadata Management in the Federal State of the Saarland (Germany) and it´s Municipalities(Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Fischer-Stabel, Peter; Barth, Bettina; Rosar, MichaelaThe design and implementation of a Metadata-Information System for geospatial data and services has to be done under the Inspire Directive by the public authorities. In the Federal State of the Saarland (Germany), the metadata management is done by the federal government and the municipalities within a common approach, regarding the metadata management but also regarding the information system. Metadata are essential in retrieving information located at differently distributed organisational units of governmental administration. The population of the meta-information system may be done based either on a centralised concept (e.g. with support of external interviewers) or on a non-centralised concept requiring a software tool accessible at each desktop computer where the dataholder can enter the data directly. Often the implementation of such a tool is linked with a high effort in installation and training, especially if dozends of clients have to be served. To overcome these disadvantages, a combined centralized / noncentralised metadata maintenance concept was developed within the project described. Keywords: Inspire Directive, Metadata Information System, Municipalities, Geospatial Data and Services
- KonferenzbeitragOpen Source GIS – Architecture sharing Data and Knowledge in an UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserve(Sh@ring – EnviroInfo 2004, 2004) Fischer-Stabel, Peter; Wannemacher, StefanBiosphere reserves have three main objectives: conserving biological and cultural diversity; providing models of land management and experimental sites for sustainable development, and serving as sites for research, environmental monitoring, education and training. These three biosphere reserve functions can be implemented only through involving and mobilizing all the structures and stakeholders concerned. Therefore, a biosphere reserve must have the necessary tools to help it reach its various objectives. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are such tools, explicitly expressed to support management, monitoring and communication between the actors of the reserve. GIS are able to act as platform where relevant knowledge, information (e.g. case studies) and data on different issues can be shared, analysed, searched through databases, and managed, and where synthesized findings, lessons learned and best practices are made available. But, to become accepted as Biosphere reserve by the different stakeholders there is a long and intensive discussion to follow. Accompanying these processes of discussing the benefits of a new Biosphere reserve in the Bliesgau region (Saarland / Germany), within a students project, we developed a GIS – architecture as information platform using the iterative prototyping approach. This was done in close collaboration with the ministry of environment of the Saarland, which is driving the Bliesgau region towards a biosphere reserve. Based on a requirements analysis, a client-server architecture using open source components (Postgres/Postgis, GRASS, ZMapServer UMN, Zope CMS) was set up. Most important point in the development was the implementation of an Internet Map Service as a communication and information tool for the stakeholders participating in the discussion. Visualising maps in an interactive manner is a much more direct and powerful communication tool than displaying lists and tables. In addition, Web-based maps are able to give the different users the same level of information in a way easy to understand and easy to access.
- KonferenzbeitragSmart Citizen Science in pluvial flood disaster risk reduction: Building a Smart Application as one tool for local drain path identification (Work in progress)(EnviroInfo 2022, 2022) Haupenthal, Katharina; Fischer-Stabel, PeterOver the last years, flood risk has increased, and the threat of flooding has caused severe damages for economy, society and infrastructure. Hence, the project Urban Flood Resilience- Smart Tools (FloReST) was initiated by six partners from the field of civil engineering, informatics and hydrology to research on tools for high-resolution drain path identification and risk mapping. In this context, a mobile application shall be developed for crowdsourced data collection in civil society. Still being in the early stages of development, a first requirement catalogue for the application is presented and discussed, showing that especially data control is a problematic issue in Citizen Science.