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Environmental computing — Applications, tools and data solutions


Abstract:

Environmental computing is becoming a recognized specialty focusing on producing actionable knowledge by advanced environmental modelling. At the moment the environmental...Show More

Abstract:

Environmental computing is becoming a recognized specialty focusing on producing actionable knowledge by advanced environmental modelling. At the moment the environmental computing community shares a tacit understanding of what are the initiatives, tools and approaches that belong to the core scope of this emerging discipline. The environmental computing website[1] has been used as an interim community resource for collecting links to resources that are of relevance to this discipline. The information on the site has been collected using the presentations in environmental computing events (listed at the end of this summary) as starting points, complemented with some targeted desk research efforts. This presentation outlines the first attempts to analyse this initial dataset as a way to identify common topics, initiatives and approaches that could serve as basis for clustering of these initiatives. There are several reasons to attempt to identify commonalities beyond the simple, intuitive categorisation of something being “within the scope of environmental computing”. From the pragmatic perspective, commonalities represent opportunities for identifying synergies, either through the reuse of existing tools or through joining forces to solve common problems. The clustering may also identify areas that could serve as links to other disciplines, potentially indicating a need for a special interest group or another sub-specialty. An example of such a case is data management (especially consistent metadata) that is mentioned as an issue on most of the presentations in the environmental computing events. While the data management issues are very closely aligned with the broader “big data” and “open data” research and policy activities, environmental computing data management has probably a distinct scope involving issues that may be specific to environmental computing (e.g. requirements stemming from the environmental computing applications aiming to provide decision suppor...
Date of Conference: 23-27 October 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 06 March 2017
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Conference Location: Baltimore, MD, USA

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