Environmental Software Systems: Environmental Information and Decision Support

✍ Scribed by Ralf Denzer (auth.), Ralf Denzer, David A. Swayne, Martin Purvis, Gerald Schimak (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing 39
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Environmental Informatics (or Enviromatics) is a maturing subject with interdisciplinary roots in computer science, environmental planning, ecology, economics and other related areas. Its practitioners must be prepared to work with many diverse professional groups. It forms the foundation for computer-assisted environmental protection.
This book contains an edited version of papers presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS '99), which was held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, from August 30 to September 2, 1999, and was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The text is divided into six sections:

• Enviromatics - Introduction;
• Environmental Issues;
• Environmental Information Systems - Tools and Techniques;
• Environmental Information Systems - Implementations;
• Environmental Decision Support Systems;
• Specialised Topics.

This state-of-the-art volume will be essential reading for computer scientists and engineers, ecologists, and environmental planners and managers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Enviromatics: Environmental Information and Environmental Decision Support....Pages 3-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Will “environmental” be replaced by “extrasensory”?....Pages 9-17
Some Current Issues In Using Diffuse Large Datasets For Environmental Modelling In New Zealand....Pages 18-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Self-Organising Maps for the Classification and Diagnosis of River Quality from Biological and Environmental Data....Pages 27-41
Case Libraries and Information Theoretic Case Matching for Soil and Water Resources Management....Pages 42-48
A Distributed Architecture for Environmental Information Systems....Pages 49-56
Predicting Patterns In Spatial Ecology Using Neural Networks: Modelling Colonisation of New Zealand Fur Seals....Pages 57-65
Patterns of Use of Computer Support for Environmental Accreditation in Rural New Zealand....Pages 66-77
B-Spline Surface Modelling with Adaptive de Boor Grids in Hydroinformatics....Pages 78-87
What Would a Reusable Meteorology Component for Environmental Models Look Like....Pages 88-94
The Use of UML for Model Design and Scientific Software Development....Pages 95-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Integration Of Remote Data Into Water Resources Simulation Software: Now Or Never?....Pages 103-113
An EIS Called WuNDa....Pages 114-121
A Computer-Based Emission Inventory....Pages 122-130
Soil Quality Indicators On The World Wide Web....Pages 131-141
BUBI: An Interactive Water Utility Benchmarking Website....Pages 142-151
Teaching EIS Development — The EU Canada Curriculum on Environmental Informatics....Pages 152-156
Broad-Scale Land Condition Monitoring using Landsat TM and DEM-Derived Data....Pages 157-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
WWW-Technology Based Hydrological Information And Decision Support System....Pages 171-176
Lessons from an Environmental Information System Developed to Select a Radioactive Waste Disposal Site....Pages 177-186
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Water Quality Model Integration in a Decision Support System....Pages 187-194
Integrated Assessments Of River Health Using Decision Support Software....Pages 195-203
Assessment of Ecological Responses to Environmental Flow Regimes using a Decision Support System Framework....Pages 204-212
Which Buttons And Bars? An Exercise In Community Participation In Decision Support Software Development....Pages 213-220
Integration of Environmental Management into Production Organization and Information Systems....Pages 221-231
A Decision Support System for Real-Time Management of Water Quality in the San Joaquin River, California....Pages 232-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Environmental Software Systems In Water Resources: Problems and Approaches....Pages 249-258
Environmental Decision Support Systems: Exactly What Are They?....Pages 259-268

✦ Subjects

Environmental Management; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Ecology