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- KonferenzbeitragMaking Environmental Research Data Publicly Available – Experiences from Ireland(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Mooney, Peter; Winstanley, Adam C.Directive 2003/4/EC “Public Access to Environmental Information” (PAES, 2003) instructs public authorities to make available and disseminate environmental information to the general public to the widest extent possible. It is the responsibility of Member States to determine the practical arrangements under which such information is made available. These arrangements shall guarantee that the information is effectively and easily accessible and made available through publicly accessible channels (ie the Internet). Ireland introduced the legislation for this Directive in 2005 with further guidance published recently (see DoEHLG, 2008). This paper discusses our experiences at the Irish Environmental Protection Agency in our efforts to improve Internet-based public access to environmental data and information generated by environmental research programmes in Ireland. In particular we focus on how public access to these data flows can be maintained efficiently while maximising the potential re-use value of the research resources themselves.
- KonferenzbeitragValidation and Model Optimization for Waste Water Treatment Processes(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Stachura, Marcin; Janiszowki, KrzysztofIn paper some procedures for calibration and optimization of waste water treatment plants models, based on model called ASM 1 were described and discussed. In performed studies data recorded in a plant in Resovia (south – eastern Poland) was taken into consideration. Calibration of a process was considered as a manual adaptation of the ASM 1 model to information obtained from investigated object, while optimization was an automatic investigation with use of computational optimization algorithms. In conclusions advantages and disadvantages of applied procedures were described.
- KonferenzbeitrageGovernment in der Umweltüberwachung am Beispiel des Bundeslandes Hessen – das Modul „Eigenkontrolle“ im Rahmen des Fachinformationssystems (FIS) Hessische Abwasseranlagen (HAA)(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Mohr, Ingo; Müller, Wolfgang; van Nouhuys, Jo
- KonferenzbeitragDeveloping Internet-GIS for Environmental Management in Mekong Delta (Vietnam)(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Koduan, Peter; Manh, Vu Van; Anh, Pham HaThe objective of this paper is to introduce the Internet-GIS approach, analyse the needs and demand of the project and generate a complete Internet-GIS application based on UMN Map Server and kvwmap for flood control and socio-economic development in Mekong Delta area of Vietnam. This paper reviews and discusses the current development of Internet-GIS as well as its future, suggested Map Server and kvwmap for the development of Internet-GIS application for environmental management. The application has been developed in PHP and Java Script and databases have been created and managed by MySQL and PostgreSQL. An Internet-GIS application has been created with different functions such as: basic functions, navigation functions, layer functions, editor functions, query functions, digitizing functions, print functions, import/export functions, data management and work flow functions, collaborative work functions, advanced analysis functions, etc. The application can switch between 3 languages: English, German and Vietnamese. The authors have created a complete Internet-GIS application including geospatial database which is divided into 5 groups: Topography, Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Land use; Hydrology system; and Remote sensing data.
- KonferenzbeitragSharing Environmental Information at Various Hierarchical Levels of Abstraction – Some Experiences in the Netherlands.(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Knol, Onno M.; Brandes, Laurens J.; van der Maas, C. Wim M.The Shared Environmental Information System initiative (SEIS) is an important step in sharing environmental information. Experiences with two environmental information systems in the Netherlands, www.prtr.nl and www.milieuennatuurcompendium.nl, have provided insights which may contribute to the development of SEIS. The main question is how to provide the right type of information to the different user groups. A theoretical framework, the pyramid of hierarchical levels of information, is used to structure the different types of information (Figure 1). Each hierarchical level in data aggregation has its own target group. Some levels are less useful to a wider audience and it is questionable whether much effort has to be made to make this kind of information suitable for the group. It would be preferable a) to determine first what kind of information is suitable and needed for each target group and b) to provide each target group with its own information stream, despite the extra costs and efforts involved.
- KonferenzbeitragKey Performance Indicators for Sustainable Reporting According to NACE(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Hrebicek, Jiri; Pekarkova, LucieThe paper presents preliminary results of research of the project No SP/4I2/26/07, entitled as "Design of new indicators for a continuous efficiency monitoring of environmental management systems according to NACE, as well as corresponding environmental reporting systems, assessing the relations among the environment, economy and society", which has been solved by the Masaryk University Brno and funded by the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic since 2007.
- KonferenzbeitragFostering the Vision of Information Sharing in Europe(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Severin, Ecker; Schimak, GeraldSharing Information (across borders, domains, organisations, etc.) is one of the strategic goals of the European Commission within Framework Programme 6 and 7. It includes the vision of building the Single European Information Space and is a challenging task for research and industry as well as for policy. ORCHESTRA (Open Architecture for Spatial Data Infrastructure in Risk Management, Integrated Project, FP6) as one of the mainstream projects sharing this vision can be seen as a corner stone for applications, enabling information sharing across boundaries. ORCHESTRA clearly and precisely explains the process of building sustainable architectures and infrastructures (ORCHESTRA Book 2008). Furthermore it enables software architects/engineers to derive their (domain specific) applications applying ORCHESTRA rules. By doing so, they will get – more or less for free – interoperability between information systems and can start sharing information and collaboration across borders or organisations. The results produced by ORCHESTRA, namely the RM-OA, the Reference Model of the ORCHESTRA Architecture (Usländer 2008) is based on standards (e.g. ISO/OGC standards) and was recently accepted by OGC (OpenGeoSpatial Consortium) as a best practices paper within the architectural working group. This means that the integration process of ORCHESTRA’s architectural approaches into OGC standards (and affiliated standardisation bodies) has started. Beside the pure architecture many ORCHESTRA services running on the developed ORCHESTRA infrastructure were implemented. These so-called core or architectural services (OA services) are able to support many applications, not limited to the risk management domain. In order to make this visible and prove the reference model, four pilot applications were developed, each of them forming an ORCHESTRA service network integrating several different and diverse information/data sources. Additionally a federated pilot application was developed, showing with support of semantics and the integration of different information networks as well as the possibility of information sharing across different organisations and system borders.
- KonferenzbeitragProcess and Ontology Based Data Integration(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Jablonski, Stefan; Volz, Bernhard; Rehman, M. AbdulOver the past years scientific research has been undergoing a special kind of globalization; data stemming from diverse sources spread over the whole world need to be integrated in order to perform analysis with a global context (e.g. to simulate the climate or just to find out how the weather system is working). But also when looking closer at smaller scenarios such as importing and storing data from a sensor network in a database, the need for systematic data integration becomes more and more eminent since the amount and the heterogeneity of data is not declining but increasing constantly. This publication presents a methodology based on process modeling and ontologies for performing data integration. The strength of the methodology resides in the provision of a structured way of how data integration can be performed such that scientists need to be as less as possible concerned with integration issues.
- KonferenzbeitragAmbient Air Temperature Interpolation in Inhomogeneous Regions(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Zaksek, Klemen; Joly, Daniel
- KonferenzbeitragTopic Map based Indicator System for Environmental Management Systems(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Arndt, Hans-Knud; Graubitz, Henner; Jacob, StephanTry to reach a particular goal in an environmental management system should be associated with strategies, e.g. for environmental goals, or for environmental policies. Sustainable protection can be achieved so that public environmental departments get the possibility to have a better costs control about planning, doing and checking measurements, or organizations have the possibility to control influences onto its internal and external interrelated processes. But in reality in environmental management systems strategies are unclear, or miss totally. This paper describes how these systems can fill this gap, and derive strategies by linking the fundamentals of the management instrument "Balanced Scorecards" and the semantic network standard ISO/IEC 13250 for Topic Maps together.