Environmental Informatics
Subtitle: Methodology and Applications of Environmental Information Processing
By: edited by Nicholas M. Avouris, Bernd Page
Contributors: Page, Bernd
Series: EUROCOURSES, Computer and Information Science -- 6; EUROCOURSES, Computer and Information Science -- 6
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9789048145386; 9789401714433
Subjects: Environmental management; Environmental sciences; Environmental protection; Computer science
Other titles: Based on the lectures given during the Eurocourse on `Environmental Informatics Applications' held at Athens, June 21--25, 1993
Description: Environmental informatics is a field of applied computer science that develops and uses the techniques of information processing for environmental protection, research and engineering. The multidisciplinary nature of environmental problems needs environmental informatics as a bridge and mediator between many disciplines and institutions. The present book presents a wide range of topics currently being pursued in the area, including basic methodological issues and typical applications. A significant number of recognised experts have contributed to the volume, discussing the methodology and application of environmental monitoring, environmental databases and information systems, GIS, modeling software, environmental management systems, knowledge-based systems, and the visualisation of complex environmental data. For scholarly and professional practitioners of environmental management who wish to acquire well-founded knowledge of environmental information processing and specialists in applied computer science who wish to learn more about the contribution of their field to the solution of our urgent environmental problems.
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