Global Monitoring

by Harris,Ray

• ISBN13: 9781844720248
• ISBN10: 1844720241
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-01-15
• Publisher: Cavendish Pub Ltd

Summary

This highly technical work is at the leading edge of spatial analysis. It covers the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative in the international context of access to environmental data. This book identifies the data policy issues, such as intellectual property rights, privacy, licensing and archiving policies, that affect environmental monitoring organisations, statistical institutes, mapping agencies, institutes for natural resources and Earth observation. It recommends courses of action to improve information services in GMES and assesses the impact of data policy on access to and cost-efficient use of information services in GMES.This title will be essential reading for government institutions such as mapping organisations, space agencies, environmental departments, military and defence departments; it will also be useful to students of environmental policies and industries involved in mapping, cartography, aerial surveys and the space industry.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Acknowledgments	vii
List of Contributors	ix
List of Figures	xiii
List of Tables	xv
List of Abbreviations	xvi
Chapter 1 Introduction and Objectives	1	(14)
Chapter 2 Documented Data Policies	15	(18)
Chapter 3 Socio-Economic Data	33	(10)
Chapter 4 Evidence of Data Access Challenges	43	(10)
Chapter 5 Evidence from Application Projects	53	(20)
Chapter 6 Evidence of Good Practice	73	(14)
Chapter 7 Data Access and the Internet	87	(12)
Chapter 8 Interoperability, Linkage and Data Access	99	(16)
David Briggs, Peter Ryder and Barry Wyatt
Chapter 9 A European Shared Information Service	115	(10)
Chapter 10 Institutional Factors	125	(28)
Nina Costa, Oliver Greening and Zofia Stott
Chapter 11 Socio-Economic Benefits Analysis of Global Environmental Monitoring	153	(22)
Pam Vass
Chapter 12 Conclusions and Recommendations	175	(14)
Appendix A	189	(2)
Appendix B	191	(4)
References	195	(8)
Index	203