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Environmental Software Systems. Infrastructures, Services and Applications: 11th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2015, Melbourne, VIC, … in Information and Communication Technology)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2015, held in Melbourne, Australia, in March 2015. The 62 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: information systems, information modeling and semantics; decision support tools and systems; modelling and simulation systems; architectures, infrastructure

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Finding the Forest in the Trees: The Challenge of Combining Diverse Environmental Data

During the last few decades of the 20th century, the development of an array of technologies has made it possible to observe the Earth, collect large quantities of data related to components and processes of the Earth system, and store, analyze, and retrieve these data at will. Over the past ten years, in particular, the observational, computational, and communications technologies have enabled the scientific community to undertake a broad range of interdisciplinary environmental research and as

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Global Monitoring: The Challenges of Access to Data

This highly technical work is at the leading edge of spatial analysis. It covers the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative in the international context of access to environmental data. This book identifies the data policy issues, such as intellectual property rights, privacy, licensing and archiving policies, that affect environmental monitoring organisations, statistical institutes, mapping agencies, institutes for natural resources and Earth observation. It recommend

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NSF Awards Million to Environmental Science Data Project
Many common species have experienced significant population declines within the last 40 years. Suggested causes include habitat loss and climate change, however to fully understand bird distribution relative to the environment, extensive data are needed.
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iWorm Hack Shows Macs Are Vulnerable Too
Bill Buchanan is Head, Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks and Security at Edinburgh Napier University. He does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and …
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Decline in PC Sales Starts to Slow; Largest Makers See Growth
“While others have been looking for a game plan that works, we have been executing ours and the results speak for themselves,” Yang Yuanqing, chairman and chief executive of Lenovo, said in a statement distributed to the press. “We are confident our …
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