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the public. Events such as the earthquake in Haiti or the downfall of governments in Libya …

Based on governmental institutions and strong volunteer organizations, Austria provides a
comprehensive and well developed emergency response system. As an important factor for …

Atmospheric emission inventories are important tools for environmental decision making. The
need to include transparency and reproducibility in emission calculation also fostered the …

UWEDAT stands for a new environmental data management and monitoring system based
on Windows NT/2000. It is mainly used in the field of ambient air quality monitoring. The …

The objective of this study is to develop a traffic noise model under diverse traffic conditions
in metropolitan cities. The model has been developed to calculate equivalent traffic noise …

Sensors provide some of the basic input data for risk management of natural and man-made
hazards. Here the word ‘sensors’ covers everything from remote sensing satellites, …

Sensors Anywhere (SANY) is an FP6 IST-5 Integrated Project dealing with sensor networks
research for environmental applications. It aims to contribute to joint European Commission (…

Environmental Informatics is a fast growing field which deals with all methods from computer
science, environmental planning, ecology and related subjects. As well as being an …

The SANY IP consortium ( http://www.sany-ip.eu ) has recently developed several
interesting service prototypes that extend the usability of the Open Geospatial Consortium “Sensor …

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