Environmental Data Management: 2 (Nato Conference Series, 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461569265 ISBN 13: 9781461569268

Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

Throughout the world a staggering amount of resources have been used to obtain billions of environmental data points. Some, such as meteorological data, have been organized for weather map display where many thousands of data points are synthesized in one compressed map. Most environmental data, however, are still widely scattered and generally not used for a systems approach, but only for the purpose for which they were originally taken. These data are contained in relatively small computer programs, research files, government and industrial reports, etc. This Conference was called to bring together some of the world's leaders from research centers and government agencies, and others concerned with environmental data management. The purpose of the Conference was to organize discussion on the scope of world environmental data, its present form and documentation, and whether a systematic approach to a total system is feasible now or in the future. This same subject permeated indirectly the Stockholm Conference on the environment, where, although no single recommendation came forth suggesting a consolidated environmental data pool, bank or network, each recommendation indicated that substantial environmental data needed to be obtained or needed to be pooled and analyzed from existing data sources.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1461569265
• ISBN 13: 9781461569268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Oppenheimer Carl