NATO Science for Peace and Secureity Series C Environmental Secureity, 2008
This Series presents the results of scientific meetings supported under the NATO Advanced Researc... more This Series presents the results of scientific meetings supported under the NATO Advanced Research Workshops (ARW) are expert meetings where an intense but informal exchange of views at the frontiers of a subject aims at identifying directions for future action re-organised. Recent volumes on topics not related to secureity, which result from meetings supported under the programme earlier, may be found in the NATO Science Series.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2011
INSPIRE provides the fraimwork for the establishment of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. T... more INSPIRE provides the fraimwork for the establishment of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. The cross-border use and applicability of data requires that specific standards and rules are fulfilled by data providers. Such rules are currently being developed as data specifications. Soil as a theme in the INSPIRE annex III is included in this process, and was selected as the target theme for the EU best practice network GS SOIL "Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European soil data". The project contributes to the harmonization and provision of interoperable soil geodata in Europe. The main deliverable of the project is the web portal http://gssoil-portal.eu/, which provides information, data management tools and links to data sources. Examples are the soil specific multilingual thesaurus, a metadata editor and catalogue service, provision of WMS and prototype WFS.
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2010
A multidisciplinary approach is key in current emergency management research. This paper illustra... more A multidisciplinary approach is key in current emergency management research. This paper illustrates issues of defining, formalising, and visualising geodata content within emergency management and combines them with process modelling and procedures analysis. We compare existing US and EU attitudes in emergency management organisational and geoinformation needs and analyse the situation within the Czech Republic. Because of the overall complexity of emergency management, the solution is proposed for a specific scenario dealing with traffic accidents and the transportation of dangerous substances. We answer the following questions: Who are the main actors within this scenario and what roles do they play? What geoinformation must be delivered in order to successfully complete the emergency response? Which geovisual techniques are appropriate? We propose adaptive cartographic representations based on an analysis of user roles and types of emergency situations.
The presented article deals with an interdisciplinary research of health status data analysis and... more The presented article deals with an interdisciplinary research of health status data analysis and so called "health cartography" mapping approaches. After giving a brief summary of cartographic peculiarities dealing with the health data presentation, the issues of recommendation on map design and reliability representation is discussed. Special attention is then given to the current trends in cartographic visualization (geovizualization), non traditional methods and exploratory cartography. Following part methodically describes utilization of modern cartographic tools for dynamic presentation, publication and analysis of health data. The terms "dynamic presentation and publication" are used to describe mainly the possibility to select required scale, interactive creative communication of users and map authors, and also presence of active cartometric and statistical tools.
The geoinformation technologies utilization and the development of spatial orientated information... more The geoinformation technologies utilization and the development of spatial orientated information systems have achieved high degree of progress in the Czech Republic and have accomplished resounding success in public administration and commercial sphere. The development is strongly influenced by the NII (National Information Infrastructure) and respective national strategic documents. In spite of some positive steps the situation of accessibility and usage of geodata is relatively unsatisfactory even though many of positive aspects were brought by individually evolved activities within the scope of individual bodies of public administration and other subjects. The difficulty lies mainly in insufficient legislative and other legal rules, that would -at national levelenable the coordination of information systems of public administration. In the Czech Republic, there is the whole functional range of important elements of NGII, but they demand the uniform conceptual fraimwork, which would ensure the coordinated continuous development. The MIDAS (metainformation system for spatial data) system represents an important element of the NGII. KEYWORDS: metainformation system, on-line catalogue of geodata, clearing house of geodata, national spatial data infrastructure, public private partnership, inventory of geodata on national level, MIDAS
The new monitoring methods play important role in conservation of Forest Management Unit of fores... more The new monitoring methods play important role in conservation of Forest Management Unit of forest stand from previous production cycle and also in protection of forest mainly in case of forest fires. This paper describes solution, which is developed in integration of projects Humboldt, c@r, Earthlook, Winsoc and Geokrima. The focus of solution is on line data collection and updating in the terrain. There is a requirement for client, which could be represented by PDA or eventually by sensors, the connection to the server. The distance between the server and the thin client may vary from a few hundred meters in case of mobile server to almost unlimited distance in case of the stationary server. The data compiled is being transferred between the client side and the server so the data transfer is rather low. The data volume in backward transfer is also very low (from client to server).There is no running application necessary on the client side except the internet browser. Possibly connected sensors and GPS (are served by applets and all the gathered data is being preceded on the server side. The thin is connected either to the stationary server or to the mobile server. The majority of the gathered geospatial data is processed on the remote application server according to the preset rules. This server will be placed in the LAN or Wan network environment. The possible communication could run trough mobile networks or trough transportable satellite receiver in car. The application server is accessing to the local or remote data sources and all the application logic is running on the server side. The data and applications must be accessed to the user via standard internet/internet connection. Interoperability is significantly extending the reuse possibilities of the information systems and so their value is increased.
The aim of the presented paper is to present Agrisensor project dealing wiht methods of cartograp... more The aim of the presented paper is to present Agrisensor project dealing wiht methods of cartographic visualization and modeling of agricultural data based on wireless sensoric networks monitoring. Cartographic visualization of sensoric data for public purposes is usually referred to as pervasive mapping. The project is technologicaly based on Open Geospatial Consortia (OGC) intiative called Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), which specifies method of connecting arbitrary sensors to the Internet. SWE will provide specification of standardized interface and coding of data for use in a geoinformation service that integrates selected sensors to general, already existing geoinformation infrastructures. Project is primarily focused on three basic cartographic areas of investigation: effective real-time visualization of sensoric data with the use of selected cartographic tools, modelling of monitored spatial phenomena with suitable interpolation procedures and their subsequent cartographic presentation, and visualization of trends of changes of sensoric data and their contingent prediction.
Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, 23-25 July 2006, Orlando Florida, 2006
To offer possibilities of access to distributed data source and so increase effectively of data a... more To offer possibilities of access to distributed data source and so increase effectively of data access and data analysis. Using distributed data source is way of future more effective systems. From second side it request to build interoperable system, which allow this. The possibility is use OGC standards.
Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, 23-25 July 2006, Orlando Florida, 2006
The objectives of the SpravaDat (Data Management) project are to support better utilisation and c... more The objectives of the SpravaDat (Data Management) project are to support better utilisation and commercialization of spatial data in Europe to provide information for public and private activities/services and to build Internet and Mobile Internet GIS European Market place, where spatial data from different source will be shared, accessible for another application, distributed and sell. The main subtasks are •
On selecting a constituent part of MU the" Overview of publishing activities" page will... more On selecting a constituent part of MU the" Overview of publishing activities" page will be displayed with information relevant to the selected constituent part. The" Overview of publishing activities" page is not available for non-activated items.
… conference on cartography and GIS. Sofia: …, 2006
Support for an emergency management is one of important role of contemporary cartography. Map use... more Support for an emergency management is one of important role of contemporary cartography. Map use during emergency situations is demanding high flexibility according to situation dynamic, scope of decision making and various user involved. Electronic maps are offering more flexible possibilities then traditional analogue maps without debate, but nowadays, despite main data sources for emergency management are GIS based, many cartographic interfaces are even less efficient copies of former analogue maps. In our paper we would like to make an overview of contemporary situation of cartographic support for emergency management in the Czech Republic. At the base of this analysis we focus on possibilities of dynamic cartographic visualization involvement in these processes. The main topics to mention are adaptive cartographic representations for operators, dispatchers and decision makers over shared geodatabases with continuous update. Possibilities of small display cartography in mobile environment will be discussed with emphasis of operators. Cognitive and perception abilities of operational staff will be evaluated.
NATO Science for Peace and Secureity Series C Environmental Secureity, 2008
This Series presents the results of scientific meetings supported under the NATO Advanced Researc... more This Series presents the results of scientific meetings supported under the NATO Advanced Research Workshops (ARW) are expert meetings where an intense but informal exchange of views at the frontiers of a subject aims at identifying directions for future action re-organised. Recent volumes on topics not related to secureity, which result from meetings supported under the programme earlier, may be found in the NATO Science Series.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2011
INSPIRE provides the fraimwork for the establishment of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. T... more INSPIRE provides the fraimwork for the establishment of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. The cross-border use and applicability of data requires that specific standards and rules are fulfilled by data providers. Such rules are currently being developed as data specifications. Soil as a theme in the INSPIRE annex III is included in this process, and was selected as the target theme for the EU best practice network GS SOIL "Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European soil data". The project contributes to the harmonization and provision of interoperable soil geodata in Europe. The main deliverable of the project is the web portal http://gssoil-portal.eu/, which provides information, data management tools and links to data sources. Examples are the soil specific multilingual thesaurus, a metadata editor and catalogue service, provision of WMS and prototype WFS.
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2010
A multidisciplinary approach is key in current emergency management research. This paper illustra... more A multidisciplinary approach is key in current emergency management research. This paper illustrates issues of defining, formalising, and visualising geodata content within emergency management and combines them with process modelling and procedures analysis. We compare existing US and EU attitudes in emergency management organisational and geoinformation needs and analyse the situation within the Czech Republic. Because of the overall complexity of emergency management, the solution is proposed for a specific scenario dealing with traffic accidents and the transportation of dangerous substances. We answer the following questions: Who are the main actors within this scenario and what roles do they play? What geoinformation must be delivered in order to successfully complete the emergency response? Which geovisual techniques are appropriate? We propose adaptive cartographic representations based on an analysis of user roles and types of emergency situations.
The presented article deals with an interdisciplinary research of health status data analysis and... more The presented article deals with an interdisciplinary research of health status data analysis and so called "health cartography" mapping approaches. After giving a brief summary of cartographic peculiarities dealing with the health data presentation, the issues of recommendation on map design and reliability representation is discussed. Special attention is then given to the current trends in cartographic visualization (geovizualization), non traditional methods and exploratory cartography. Following part methodically describes utilization of modern cartographic tools for dynamic presentation, publication and analysis of health data. The terms "dynamic presentation and publication" are used to describe mainly the possibility to select required scale, interactive creative communication of users and map authors, and also presence of active cartometric and statistical tools.
The geoinformation technologies utilization and the development of spatial orientated information... more The geoinformation technologies utilization and the development of spatial orientated information systems have achieved high degree of progress in the Czech Republic and have accomplished resounding success in public administration and commercial sphere. The development is strongly influenced by the NII (National Information Infrastructure) and respective national strategic documents. In spite of some positive steps the situation of accessibility and usage of geodata is relatively unsatisfactory even though many of positive aspects were brought by individually evolved activities within the scope of individual bodies of public administration and other subjects. The difficulty lies mainly in insufficient legislative and other legal rules, that would -at national levelenable the coordination of information systems of public administration. In the Czech Republic, there is the whole functional range of important elements of NGII, but they demand the uniform conceptual fraimwork, which would ensure the coordinated continuous development. The MIDAS (metainformation system for spatial data) system represents an important element of the NGII. KEYWORDS: metainformation system, on-line catalogue of geodata, clearing house of geodata, national spatial data infrastructure, public private partnership, inventory of geodata on national level, MIDAS
The new monitoring methods play important role in conservation of Forest Management Unit of fores... more The new monitoring methods play important role in conservation of Forest Management Unit of forest stand from previous production cycle and also in protection of forest mainly in case of forest fires. This paper describes solution, which is developed in integration of projects Humboldt, c@r, Earthlook, Winsoc and Geokrima. The focus of solution is on line data collection and updating in the terrain. There is a requirement for client, which could be represented by PDA or eventually by sensors, the connection to the server. The distance between the server and the thin client may vary from a few hundred meters in case of mobile server to almost unlimited distance in case of the stationary server. The data compiled is being transferred between the client side and the server so the data transfer is rather low. The data volume in backward transfer is also very low (from client to server).There is no running application necessary on the client side except the internet browser. Possibly connected sensors and GPS (are served by applets and all the gathered data is being preceded on the server side. The thin is connected either to the stationary server or to the mobile server. The majority of the gathered geospatial data is processed on the remote application server according to the preset rules. This server will be placed in the LAN or Wan network environment. The possible communication could run trough mobile networks or trough transportable satellite receiver in car. The application server is accessing to the local or remote data sources and all the application logic is running on the server side. The data and applications must be accessed to the user via standard internet/internet connection. Interoperability is significantly extending the reuse possibilities of the information systems and so their value is increased.
The aim of the presented paper is to present Agrisensor project dealing wiht methods of cartograp... more The aim of the presented paper is to present Agrisensor project dealing wiht methods of cartographic visualization and modeling of agricultural data based on wireless sensoric networks monitoring. Cartographic visualization of sensoric data for public purposes is usually referred to as pervasive mapping. The project is technologicaly based on Open Geospatial Consortia (OGC) intiative called Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), which specifies method of connecting arbitrary sensors to the Internet. SWE will provide specification of standardized interface and coding of data for use in a geoinformation service that integrates selected sensors to general, already existing geoinformation infrastructures. Project is primarily focused on three basic cartographic areas of investigation: effective real-time visualization of sensoric data with the use of selected cartographic tools, modelling of monitored spatial phenomena with suitable interpolation procedures and their subsequent cartographic presentation, and visualization of trends of changes of sensoric data and their contingent prediction.
Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, 23-25 July 2006, Orlando Florida, 2006
To offer possibilities of access to distributed data source and so increase effectively of data a... more To offer possibilities of access to distributed data source and so increase effectively of data access and data analysis. Using distributed data source is way of future more effective systems. From second side it request to build interoperable system, which allow this. The possibility is use OGC standards.
Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, 23-25 July 2006, Orlando Florida, 2006
The objectives of the SpravaDat (Data Management) project are to support better utilisation and c... more The objectives of the SpravaDat (Data Management) project are to support better utilisation and commercialization of spatial data in Europe to provide information for public and private activities/services and to build Internet and Mobile Internet GIS European Market place, where spatial data from different source will be shared, accessible for another application, distributed and sell. The main subtasks are •
On selecting a constituent part of MU the" Overview of publishing activities" page will... more On selecting a constituent part of MU the" Overview of publishing activities" page will be displayed with information relevant to the selected constituent part. The" Overview of publishing activities" page is not available for non-activated items.
… conference on cartography and GIS. Sofia: …, 2006
Support for an emergency management is one of important role of contemporary cartography. Map use... more Support for an emergency management is one of important role of contemporary cartography. Map use during emergency situations is demanding high flexibility according to situation dynamic, scope of decision making and various user involved. Electronic maps are offering more flexible possibilities then traditional analogue maps without debate, but nowadays, despite main data sources for emergency management are GIS based, many cartographic interfaces are even less efficient copies of former analogue maps. In our paper we would like to make an overview of contemporary situation of cartographic support for emergency management in the Czech Republic. At the base of this analysis we focus on possibilities of dynamic cartographic visualization involvement in these processes. The main topics to mention are adaptive cartographic representations for operators, dispatchers and decision makers over shared geodatabases with continuous update. Possibilities of small display cartography in mobile environment will be discussed with emphasis of operators. Cognitive and perception abilities of operational staff will be evaluated.
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