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Environmental data extraction from heatmaps using the AirMerge system

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The AirMerge platform was designed and constructed to increase the availability and improve the interoperability of heatmap-based environmental data on the Internet. This platform allows data from multiple heterogeneous chemical weather data sources to be continuously collected and archived in a unified repository; all the data in this repository have a common data format and access scheme. In this paper, we address the technical structure and applicability of the AirMerge platform. The platform facilitates personalized information services, and can be used as an environmental information node for other web-based information systems. The results demonstrate the feasibility of this approach and its potential for being applied also in other areas, in which image-based environmental information retrieval will be needed.

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Acknowledgments

AirMerge was developed in the frame of COST Action ES0602, and was financially supported by the FMI during the years 2010–2012 and co-funded by the PESCaDO project during 2012–2013. This publication was supported by the “IKY Fellowships of Excellence for Postgraduate Studies in Greece—Siemens Program” at the time of writing.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Victor Epitropou, Tassos Bassoukos & Kostas Karatzas

  2. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

    Ari Karppinen & Jaakko Kukkonen

  3. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Leo Wanner

  4. Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Leo Wanner

  5. Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Information Technologies Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stefanos Vrochidis & Ioannis Kompatsiaris

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Epitropou, V., Bassoukos, T., Karatzas, K. et al. Environmental data extraction from heatmaps using the AirMerge system. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 1589–1613 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2604-7

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