Conference Affairs | Presentations
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Plenary common sessions
Global Citizens’ Environmental Observatory the role of individuals in observing and understanding our changing world - Prof. Jacqueline McGlade
Development of SEIS and role of the Czech Presidency - Rut Bízková
Challenges of eEnvironment - Jiøí Høebíèek
Session S1: ICT research towards a Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment
Opening speech - Manuel Monteiro
One Information Space, Billions of Sensors - Alessandro Annoni
The role and functions of European Grid Infrastructure - Ludek Matyska
The GIGAS project – an action in support to GEOSS, INSPIRE, and GMES - Eva Klien
GENESIS, a flexible solution contributing to the SISE deployment - Christian Alegre
SANY – a European scale project towards shared information - Denis Havlik
Architectural Viewpoints and Trends for the Implementation of the Environmental Information Space - Thomas Usländer
Automated mapping of environmental variables from a SISE and SEIS perspective - Edzer Pebesma
Towards a Single Information Space for Environmental Management through Self-Configuration of Distributed Information Processing Systems - Gregor Pavlin, Niek Wijngaards, Kees Nieuwenhuis
Empowering Environmental Knowledge - Convergence, Harmonisation and Integration: Challenges and Approaches - Pier Giorgio Marchetti
Building the SISE: an environmental ontology - Pilar León Araúz
PEGASE: A software dedicated to Surface Water Quality Assessment and to European database reporting - Jean-François Deliege
Prague Environmental Information System - ICT and data sharing in the service of a „City for Life“ - Petr Štepánek
Advanced corporate sustainability reporting – Towards a XBRL taxonomy for sustainability reportbased on the G3-guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative - Jorge Marx Gómez
eParticipation in the service of environmental democracy: Introducing the U@marenostrum project - Maria Perez Ortega
Effective Management of Environmental Processes - Michael Hanke
An holistic view of coverage services for SISE-SEIS - Stefano Nativi
Web Information Extraction for eEnvironment. We need help from domain expert! - Peter Vojtáš
Localised environmental and health information services (LENVIS): a generic Decision Support Network - Sander Loos
A Transactional Environmental Support System for Europe - Robert Kenward
A Geographic Approach to Integrating eEnvironmental Knowledge in Europe - Robin Smith
Session S2: Building SEIS, Europe's backbone for eGovernment environment services
The role of eGovernment in the Czech Republic - Ondrej Felix
SEIS use cases in the Czech Republic and beyond - Jirí Hradec
An Introduction to the Aggregation Database - Soren Roug
NESIS - a Network to enhance a European Environmental Shared and Interoperable Information System - Giorgio Saio
Data harmonization of environmental variables: from simple to general solutions - Olivier Baume
OneGeology-Europe: Making European geoscience spatial data accessible - Ian Jackson
Humboldt Scenario Forest – Practical Example Forestry Data Harmonisation - Otakar Cerba
European Biodiversity Observation Network - EBONE - Luboš Halada
Large-scale Research Infrastructures to assist in understanding and managing our Planet’s Biodiversity - Wouter Los
SAS for Sustainability Management: Enabling Green Innovation - Alyssa A. Farrell
The role of Eurostat in SEIS - Christian Heidorn
The European Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) - Peter Wicks
Technological solution for national SEIS - centralized or distributed system? - Jarmila Cikánková
Integration of national sources from the implementation of SEIS in Slovakia - Jan Cimmerman
Approach to Build a Soil Information Portal for Europe Based on the PortalU Technology - Stefanie Uhrich
Electronic Data Management - Franz Mochty
Application of SEIS and INSPIRE in Slovenia - Jelko Urbancic
Environmental Information in Practice. Climate Data Management - Pavel Švidrnoch
The new monitoring portal: sharing environmental monitoring information in the Netherlands - Gerard Nienhuis
Reporting Environmental Information - Best Practice and 15 years of experience in Germany - Wassilios Kazakos
Croatian Environment Information System Conceptual Model - Jasna Butuci
Access to Water Data in Austria - Water Information System Austria - Stephan Nemetz
Quality of life environmental information services: a SEIS forerunner - Kostas Karatzas
Waste Management using the GS1 Standards - Rudolf Behrens
The re-use of of PSI as a motor for innovation and substainable growth - Juan Pelegrin
Integrating Environmental Research Data into the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) - Peter Mooney
SOSI Spatial Observation Services & Infrastructure - Gerhard Triebnig
Web Services and Data Harmonisation for Spatial Planning - Otakar Cerba
Directive INSPIRE transposition in Bulgaria - Ivan Philipov
A Shared Environmental Information System for GMES: key topics - Agnes Marty
Session S3: ICT for monitoring and controlling of energy efficiency and security, modelling of air pollution, climate changes to support decision making in environment protection
Opening speech - Erik Geuss
Integrated energy spatial planning: “spatializing” policy decision support - Thomas Blaschke
A New Architecture for Reduction of Energy Consumption of Home Appliances - Maria Barros
The role of predictive models in energy efficiency optimisation of industrial plants and buildings - Petr Stluka
Power Optimized More Electrical Aircraft - Jean-Luc Derouineau
Green IT solution - Georg Meixner
Modelling of the Taylor-Green Vortex by the Implicit Large Eddy Simulation - Vladimír Fuka
Assimilation of satellite and ground level data into air quality models - Jaroslav Resler
Conversion of Czech National Emission Inventory for Input to Air Quality Models - Jitka Liczki
Rapid deployment system for complex accidental release simulations - Pavel Juruš
High resolution regional climate change modelling challenge for ICT development - Tomáš Halenka
Project UN CoolPlanet - Michal Broža
REACh – New IT-Trends in collaboration and networking for the Process of Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of European Chemicals - Gerlinde Knetsch
Modelling of Floods: Climate Changes and Disasters Analysed by Information Technologies within a Framework of Recently Introduced Flood Directive of EU - Evžen Zeman
Environmental Economic and Natural Disasters - Eva Pajorová
Integration of Earth Observation Data and Domain Knowledge Using Topic Maps - Rani Pinchuk
Automated Real-Time Controlling of EIA Processes - Michael Hanke
Session S4: GMES (potential for new EU countries for atmosphere and land monitoring)
Opening ceremony of the GMES session - Rut Bízková
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES). General Overview - Valere Moutarlier
GMES Space Component - Josef Aschbacher
EEA Insitu coordination for GMES - Tim Haigh
Presidency for GMES - Jan Kolár
Main GMES outcomes during the second half of 2008. French Presidency of the EU - Alain Podaire
geoland2 – GMES Land Core Services - Alexander Kaptein
MACC Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate. A pilot for the GMES Atmosphere Core Service - Eleni Paliouras
SAFER GMES Emergency Response Services: One step closer to full-scale operational deployment - Nick Veck
MYOCEAN. Project objectives and definition - F. Adragna
G-MOSAIC. GMES services for Management of Operations, Situation Awareness and Intelligence for regional Crises - Luboš Kucera
GMES atmosphere Core Service - Philippe Waldteufel
EUMETSAT contribution to GMES - Johannes Schmetz
Atmosphere, climate and GMES. EUMETNET and GMES - Adrian Broad
Towards a GMES contribution to climate - Arno Kaschl
Air quality in Europe and the Czech Republic. Status, trends and outlook - Jaroslav Fiala
Czech approach towards climate change - Radim Tolasz
Satellite based monitoring and forecasting of particulate matter over Europe - Thilo Erbertseder
PROMOTE: urban air-quality management with AURORA for Prague - Filip Lefebre
airTEXT Air Quality Forecasting System - D. J. Carruthers
Www.airqualitynow.eu, a common website and air quality indices to compare cities across Europe - Karine Leger
ESA’s GMES Service Element - Frank Martin Seifert
Summary of the GSE Land users’ view - Andreas Littkopf
GMES spatial planning services in support of German Federal State Lower Saxony - Anja Steininger
GMES Urban Service, as a contribution to regional soil protection for the Region of FreibergChemnitz - Bernd Siemer
End user experiences in using phenological time series in water quality modelling - Katri Rankinen
Earth observation product for agricultural water use estimation in Mediterranean basins: Experience of the Greek user - Eleftherios Stavrinos
User involvement in GSE Forest Monitoring - Stefanie Linser
Urban Atlas helps urban planners in Prague - Jirí Ctyroký
Service provision industry view and outlook - Franz Jaskolla
Implementation group results and outlook - Dietmar Grunreich
Summary and conclusions - Josiane Masson
Better geoinformation for spatial planning: Implementation of GMES services in the Czech Republic - J. Weichselbaum
REAL - Remote sensing identification and monitoring of abandoned land - Tomáš Soukup
The HUMBOLDT project: towards the harmonisation of spatial information in Europe - Kristof Daniel
EarthLookCZ - GMES data publication, combination and sharing on the web - Petr Horák
The European urban atlas – supporting city habitability – challenging earth observation - David Ludlow
A testbed for INSPIRE and GMES services - Volker Kraut
Workshop W2: ICT-ENSURE: European ICT Environmental Sustainability Research
Information and Communication Technologies for Environmental Sustainability Research - Werner Pillmann
Shared Environmental Information System and Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment: Antiopodes or Associates? - Jirí Hrebícek
Access to Environmental Information in a Shared Environmental Information System - Thomas Pick
Review of Slovak ICT Research Activities on SISE and SEIS - Vladimír Benko
Information systems in the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) - Alex Höbart
The Finnish Environmental Information Portal - Mikko Hynninen
SISE impact research in The Netherlands, The Flevoland case of Legal mapping - Rob Peters
Opportunities and challenges for shared environmental information in Europe - a PEER perspective - Mike Brown
Information Science and Environmental Information Systems in Sweden - Ake Sivertun
Review of Croatian ICT Research Activities on Sharing of Environmental Information - Ivica Ruzic
Water Information System for Europe, issues and challenges for Member states - Dimitrios Biliouris
Networking Environmental Informatics in Europewith Respect to Sustainability - Kristina Voigt
Information Systems for Building an ERA in the Field of ICT for Environmental Sustainability - Werner Geiger
Framework Conception for the Environmental Information System of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) - Andree Keitel
The role of ICT in energy consumption and energy efficiency - Vlad Coroama
ICT for Health and Environment European Research - Charlotte Wirl
HYDROSYS - first approaches towards on-site monitoring and management with handhelds - Eduardo Veas
Sensitivity and Data Uncertainty Analysis of an Environmental Distribution Model - Jaroslav Urbánek
Environmental Geoinformatics for Emergency Management - Tomáš Ludík
Process-Oriented Modelling and Infrastructure for Remedial Decision Support System - Jan Pavlovic
A model framework for environmental sustainability research: Final Discussion and Conclusion of the Workshop - Werner Pillmann
Workshop W3: eEcoRA - Information Technologies in Ecological Risk Assessment
Opening speech - Katerina Šebková, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic
EcoRA: Principles, perspectives and challenges - Ladislav Dušek
Ecosystem concept in assessment of running waters degradation - Karel Brabec
An Intelligent System for Monitoring and Predicting Water Quality - Nick Bassiliades
The implementation of EcoRA methodology in national wide biomonitoring system of surface waters: Indicative value of benthic macroinvertebrates as an parallel to effect assessment - Jirí Jarkovský
Risk mapping of technological risks (chemical, biological and aircraft) by means of GIS Risk-Register, the examples of Geneva, “Geneva Risk” and Zurich "ChemRisk" - Alberto Susini
Experiences and case studies analysis on risk-based Decision Support Systems for contaminated water and land management - Stefania Gottardo
Workshop W4: eEnvironment Terminology
Meaningful Linkage and Navigation in the Shared Information Space - Thomas Bandholtz
A state-of-the-art of Italian National Research Council (CNR) activities in the area of terminology and thesauri - Paolo Plini
Environmental Thesaurus UMTHES - environment terminology evolvement for a broad thematic matter and for different use conditions - practicably handling of structural challenges - Joachim Fock
EcoLex: a Frame-Based Knowledge Base for the Environment - Arianne Reimerink
Expert Cooperation in Forest Terminology: Services offered by IUFRO - Renate Prüller
A Challenge for the Global Water Management: The Harmonization of Terms, Definitions and Concepts - Michael Nagy
Ad hoc Committee on E-Democracy of the Council of Europe (CAHDE). Defining E-Environment - Rudolf Legat
The Environment Ontology – Linking Environmental Data. - Norman Morrison
From Terms to Knowledge. The Potential of Semantics in Environmental Data Integration - Katharina Schleidt
Sharing environmental information through multilingual terminological and multimedia resources: the role of accessibility in increasing public awareness towards sustainable growth - Clara Ines Lopez-Rodriguez
Discovery and Analysis of Environmental Information based on Formalised Terminology - Ulrich Bügel
Workshop W5: SEIS/NESIS - ICT Components for SEIS around Europe
NESIS - a Network to enhance a European Environmental Shared and Interoperable Information Systém - Giorgio Saio
NESIS Good Practical Inventory - Giorgio Saio
NESIS preliminary results about the analysis of the State of Art and of identification of good practices on management environmental information - Danny Vandenbroucke
PortalU®, a Tool to Support the Implementation of the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) in Germany - Fred Kruse
SOSI Spatial Observation Services & Infrastructure. A Demonstrator for the Sharing Environmental Information - Milan Novácek
Species Map and Species Observation Service of the Norway Biodiversity Observation Centre (NBIC) - Rengifo Zenon Ortega
Project development - Giorgio Saio
Workshop W6: GIGAS Forum - Bringing together GEOSS, INSPIRE, GEOSS, and SEIS
The GIGAS project – a consensus-driven approach for influencing the evolution of environmental systems and initiatives - Eva Klien
Monitoring and analysing interoperability gaps– methodology and outcome examples - Pier Giorgio Marchetti
The GIGAS Forum - a place to meet, discuss and find solutions and best practices for interoperability problems - Alessandro Annoni
Future activities - Eva Klien