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'''Environmental informatics''' ('''EI''') is a developing field of science that applies [[information]] processing, management, and sharing strategies to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science.<ref name="HiltyEI">{{cite book |chapter=Chapter 1: Environmental Informatics as a New Discipline of Applied Computer Science |title=Environmental Informatics |author=Hilty, L.M.; Page, B.; Radermacher, F.J.; Riekert, W.F. |editor=Avouris, N.M.; Page, B. |publisher=Springer |year=1995 |pages=1–11 |isbn=9789048145386 |doi=10.1007/978-94-017-1443-3}}</ref> Applications include the integration of information and knowledge, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data, and the identification of the environmental impacts of information technology. EI helps scientists define information processing requirements, analyze real-world problems, and solve those problems using informatics methodologies and tools.<ref name="PageAdvances">{{cite journal |title=Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems |journal=Procedia Environmental Sciences |author=Page, B.; Wohlgemuth, V. |volume=2 |year=2010 |pages=696–705 |doi=10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079}}</ref>


'''Environmental informatics''' is the science of [[information]] applied to [[environmental science]]. As such, it provides the information processing and communication infrastructure to the interdisciplinary field of environmental sciences<ref>L.M. Hilty, B. Page, F.J. Radermacher and W.-F. Riekert. Environmental Informatics as a new discipline of applied computer science. N.M. Avouris and B. Page (eds.), Environmental Informatics (1995), pp. 1-11. Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands. ISBN 0-7923-3445-0</ref> aiming at data, information and knowledge integration, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data as well as the identification of environmental impacts of information technology. The UK Natural Environment Research Council defines environmental informatics as the "research and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information".<ref>http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/topics.asp</ref>
As EI has continued to evolve, several other definitions have been offered over the years:


Environmental informatics emerged in early 1990 in Central Europe.<ref>B. Page, V. Wohlgemuth. Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems, Procedia Environmental Sciences, Volume 2, International Conference on Ecological Informatics and Ecosystem Conservation (ISEIS 2010), 2010, Pages 696-705, ISSN 1878-0296, DOI: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079]</ref>
* "an emerging field centering around the development of standards and protocols, both technical and institutional, for sharing and integrating environmental data and information."<ref name="BDPArch">{{cite web |url=http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211010311/http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html |title=Biosphere Data Project - What is Environmental Informatics? |author=Kada, K.; Lussier, S. |publisher=University of California - Berkeley |archivedate=11 December 2004 |accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> - ''Biosphere Data Project, University of California - Berkeley, 2004''


Current initiatives to effectively manage, share, and reuse environmental and ecological data are indicative of the increasing importance of fields like environmental informatics and [[Ecoinformatics]] to develop the foundations for effectively managing ecological information. Examples of these initiatives are  National Science Foundation Datanet projects, DataONE and Data Conservancy.
* the application of "[r]esearch and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information."<ref name="NERCResearch">{{cite web |url=https://nerc.ukri.org/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925122955/https://nerc.ukri.org/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/ |title=NERC - Research areas - Tools, technology & methods |publisher=Natural Environment Research Council |archivedate=25 September 2020 |accessdate=06 January 2021}}</ref> - ''Natural Environment Research Council, 2014''


==History==
Environmental informatics emerged roughly around the late 1980s in Central Europe.<ref name="PageAdvances" /> For example, in 1986 Germany's ''Gesellschaft für Informatik'' (Society for Computer Science) created the technical committee ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'' (Computer Science in Environmental Protection) dedicated to "the whole spectrum of subjects related to informatics in environmental protection."<ref name="IUArch">{{cite web |url=http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970726002709/http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html |title=General Information about the Technical Committee 'Computer Science in Environmental Protection' |author=Geiger, Werner |publisher=Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V |date=22 April 1996 |archivedate=26 July 1997 |accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> The group is still active as of 2019, having hosted its thirty-third International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection.<ref name="EI14">{{cite web |url=https://enviroinfo2019.org/ |title=EnviroInfo 2019 |publisher=University of Oldenburg |accessdate=20 March 2020}}</ref> Since ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'''s inception, other groups there and in other regions of the world were created, including The International Environmetrics Society (TIES, founded in 1989<ref name="TIESHist">{{cite web |url=http://www.environmetrics.org/history.html |title=TIES - History |publisher=The International Environmetrics Society |date=19 September 2013 |accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>) and the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs, founded in 2000<ref name="iEMSsHist">{{cite web |url=https://www.iemss.org/awards/medallists-fellows-and-ecres/ |title=iEMSs - Medalists, Fellows and ECREs |publisher=International Environmental Modelling and Software Society |date=19 June 2008 |accessdate=20 March 2020}}</ref>), as well as conferences like the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS, founded in 1995<ref name="ISESSabout">{{cite web |url=https://www.iemss.org/thread/isess-international-symposium-on-environmental-software-systems/ |title=ISESS – International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems |publisher=International Environmental Modelling and Software Society |date=07 November 2013 |accessdate=20 March 2020}}</ref>).
==Application==
Environmental informatics can help tackle problems and tasks such as the following<ref name="KokhGrand">{{cite journal |title=Grand challenges in environmental informatics |journal=Frontiers in Environmental Science |author=Kokhanovsky, A. |volume=1 |issue=5 |year=2014 |doi=10.3389/fenvs.2013.00005}}</ref><ref name="JEIAbout">{{cite web |url=http://www.jeionline.org/index.php?journal=mys |title=Journal of Environmental Informatics |publisher=International Society for Environmental Information Sciences |accessdate=20 March 2020}}</ref>:
* the acquisition and application of remote sensing data from optical, thermal infrared, and microwave instruments targeting the atmosphere, vegetation, and the ocean
* the estimation of aerosol load in the atmosphere
* the gauging of influence of trace gases, aerosol, and clouds on the weather and climate
* the analysis of geographical features for urban and regional development
* the modeling and assessment of ecological environments
* the development and optimization of mathematical algorithms for environmental modeling
===Ecoinformatics===
Closely related to EI is the concept of ecological informatics or "ecoinformatics," which essentially takes environmental informatics and adds the consideration of anthropogenic activity trends. Ecoinformatics aims to facilitate environmental research and management by developing ways to access, manage, and integrate databases of environmental information and develop new algorithms enabling different environmental datasets to be combined to test ecological hypotheses.<ref name="CracknellGlobal">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k2aVFcrCi90C&pg=PA449 |title=Global Climatology and Ecodynamics: Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth |author=Cracknell, A.P.; Krapivin, V.F. |publisher=Springer |year=2008 |page=449 |isbn=9783540782094 |accessdate=20 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="KondratyevGlobal">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n04HU6f5FDYC&pg=PA27 |chapter=Chapter 2: The Basic Principles of Global Ecoinformatics |title=Global Environmental Change: Modelling and Monitoring |author=Kondratyev, K.Y.; Krapivin, V.F.; Phillipe, G.W. |publisher=Springer |year=2002 |pages=27–62 |isbn=9783540433736 |accessdate=20 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="ReckHandbook">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41 |chapter=Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas |title=Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics |author=Recknagel, F. |editor=Jørgensen, S.E.; Chon, T.S. |publisher=WIT Press |year=2009 |pages=41–47 |isbn=9781845642075 |accessdate=20 March 2020}}</ref>
==Further reading==
* {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41 |chapter=Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas |title=Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics |author=Recknagel, F. |editor=Jørgensen, S.E.; Chon, T.S. |publisher=WIT Press |year=2009 |pages=41–47 |isbn=9781845642075}}
* {{cite journal |url=https://former.iemss.org/pmwiki/fields/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S18-01-Voigt_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf |format=PDF |journal=International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software |series=Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting. |title=Environmental Informatics, Environmetrics, Chemoinformatics, Chemometrics: Integration or Separation!? |author=Voigt, Kristina |volume=3 |date=July 2008 |pages=1594–1601 |isbn=9788476530740}}
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/research/environmental_informatics/ Lancaster Environment Center]: Centre for environmental informatics
* [https://www.dataone.org/ Data Observation Network for Earth] (DataONE)
*[http://www.iba.muni.cz/index-en.php?s=environmental-informatics Masaryk University]: Division of environmental informatics and modeling
* [http://www.ecoinformatics.org ecoinformatics.org - Online Resource for Managing Ecological Data and Information]
*[http://www.nuigalway.ie/eci/research/environmental_informatics.html NUI Galway]: Environmental informatics
* [https://ecologicaldata.org/ Ecological Data Wiki]
*[http://www.mta-taki.hu/en/departments/wgenvirionmentalinf RISSAC]: Department of environmental informatics, research institute for soil science and agricultural chemistry, Hungarian academy of sciences
* [https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ecological-informatics ''Ecological Informatics'': An International Journal on Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology]
*[http://www.stanford.edu/group/ei/ Stanford University]: Sustainable development & environmental informatics
* [https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/all/sections/environmental-informatics-and-remote-sensing ''Frontiers in Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing'']
*[http://kmi.tugraz.at/research/focus_areas/environmental_informatics TU Graz]: Research focus area in environmental informatics
* [http://enviroinfo.eu/ ''Informatik für Umweltschutz, nachhaltige Entwicklung und Risikomanagement''] (formerly ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'')
*[http://www.ics.uci.edu/faculty/area/area_environmental.php University of California, Irvine]: Bren school environmental informatics research
* [https://www.iemss.org/ International Environmental Modelling and Software Society] (iEMSs)
*[http://www.udayton.edu/engineering/institutes_and_centers.php University of Dayton]: Center of excellence for strategic energy and environmental informatics
* [http://www.iseis.org/ International Society for Environmental Information Sciences] (ISEIS)
*[http://www.uef.fi/envi University of Eastern Finland]: Division of environmental informatics within the department of environmental science at Kuopio Campus
* [http://www.jeionline.org/index.php?journal=mys ''Journal of Environmental Informatics'']
*[http://agis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/asi/forschung/umweltinformatik/ University of Hamburg]: Research in environmental informatics
* [http://www.environmetrics.org/ The International Environmetrics Society] (TIES)
*[http://www.informatics.unlv.edu/cognates/environmental.htm University of Las Vegas, Nevada]: Environmental informatics undergraduate program
 
*[http://snre.umich.edu/degree_programs/environmental_informatics/overview University of Michigan]: Environmental informatics GIS and modeling graduate program
==Notes==
*[http://www-ui.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/ University of Oldenburg]: Division of environmental informatics
 
*[http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/faculties/apsc/centres/cei/ University of Sunderland]: Centre for environmental informatics
This article reuses a couple of elements from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_informatics the Wikipedia article].
*[http://www.dataone.org DataONE]
 
*[http://www.dataconservancy.org Data Conserancy]
==References==
== References ==
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Publicly available data sets and informatics tools like open-source SAGA GIS enable the creation of environmental models and images such as this.

Environmental informatics (EI) is a developing field of science that applies information processing, management, and sharing strategies to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science.[1] Applications include the integration of information and knowledge, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data, and the identification of the environmental impacts of information technology. EI helps scientists define information processing requirements, analyze real-world problems, and solve those problems using informatics methodologies and tools.[2]

As EI has continued to evolve, several other definitions have been offered over the years:

  • "an emerging field centering around the development of standards and protocols, both technical and institutional, for sharing and integrating environmental data and information."[3] - Biosphere Data Project, University of California - Berkeley, 2004
  • the application of "[r]esearch and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information."[4] - Natural Environment Research Council, 2014

History

Environmental informatics emerged roughly around the late 1980s in Central Europe.[2] For example, in 1986 Germany's Gesellschaft für Informatik (Society for Computer Science) created the technical committee Informatik im Umweltschutz (Computer Science in Environmental Protection) dedicated to "the whole spectrum of subjects related to informatics in environmental protection."[5] The group is still active as of 2019, having hosted its thirty-third International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection.[6] Since Informatik im Umweltschutz's inception, other groups there and in other regions of the world were created, including The International Environmetrics Society (TIES, founded in 1989[7]) and the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs, founded in 2000[8]), as well as conferences like the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS, founded in 1995[9]).

Application

Environmental informatics can help tackle problems and tasks such as the following[10][11]:

  • the acquisition and application of remote sensing data from optical, thermal infrared, and microwave instruments targeting the atmosphere, vegetation, and the ocean
  • the estimation of aerosol load in the atmosphere
  • the gauging of influence of trace gases, aerosol, and clouds on the weather and climate
  • the analysis of geographical features for urban and regional development
  • the modeling and assessment of ecological environments
  • the development and optimization of mathematical algorithms for environmental modeling

Ecoinformatics

Closely related to EI is the concept of ecological informatics or "ecoinformatics," which essentially takes environmental informatics and adds the consideration of anthropogenic activity trends. Ecoinformatics aims to facilitate environmental research and management by developing ways to access, manage, and integrate databases of environmental information and develop new algorithms enabling different environmental datasets to be combined to test ecological hypotheses.[12][13][14]

Further reading

External links

Notes

This article reuses a couple of elements from the Wikipedia article.

References

  1. ↑ Hilty, L.M.; Page, B.; Radermacher, F.J.; Riekert, W.F. (1995). "Chapter 1: Environmental Informatics as a New Discipline of Applied Computer Science". In Avouris, N.M.; Page, B.. Environmental Informatics. Springer. pp. 1–11. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-1443-3. ISBN 9789048145386. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Page, B.; Wohlgemuth, V. (2010). "Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems". Procedia Environmental Sciences 2: 696–705. doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079. 
  3. ↑ Kada, K.; Lussier, S.. "Biosphere Data Project - What is Environmental Informatics?". University of California - Berkeley. Archived from the original on 11 December 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20041211010311/http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html. Retrieved 03 June 2014. 
  4. ↑ "NERC - Research areas - Tools, technology & methods". Natural Environment Research Council. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925122955/https://nerc.ukri.org/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/. Retrieved 06 January 2021. 
  5. ↑ Geiger, Werner (22 April 1996). "General Information about the Technical Committee 'Computer Science in Environmental Protection'". Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. Archived from the original on 26 July 1997. https://web.archive.org/web/19970726002709/http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html. Retrieved 03 June 2014. 
  6. ↑ "EnviroInfo 2019". University of Oldenburg. https://enviroinfo2019.org/. Retrieved 20 March 2020. 
  7. ↑ "TIES - History". The International Environmetrics Society. 19 September 2013. http://www.environmetrics.org/history.html. Retrieved 03 June 2014. 
  8. ↑ "iEMSs - Medalists, Fellows and ECREs". International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. 19 June 2008. https://www.iemss.org/awards/medallists-fellows-and-ecres/. Retrieved 20 March 2020. 
  9. ↑ "ISESS – International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems". International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. 7 November 2013. https://www.iemss.org/thread/isess-international-symposium-on-environmental-software-systems/. Retrieved 20 March 2020. 
  10. ↑ Kokhanovsky, A. (2014). "Grand challenges in environmental informatics". Frontiers in Environmental Science 1 (5). doi:10.3389/fenvs.2013.00005. 
  11. ↑ "Journal of Environmental Informatics". International Society for Environmental Information Sciences. http://www.jeionline.org/index.php?journal=mys. Retrieved 20 March 2020. 
  12. ↑ Cracknell, A.P.; Krapivin, V.F. (2008). Global Climatology and Ecodynamics: Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth. Springer. p. 449. ISBN 9783540782094. https://books.google.com/books?id=k2aVFcrCi90C&pg=PA449. Retrieved 20 March 2020. 
  13. ↑ Kondratyev, K.Y.; Krapivin, V.F.; Phillipe, G.W. (2002). "Chapter 2: The Basic Principles of Global Ecoinformatics". Global Environmental Change: Modelling and Monitoring. Springer. pp. 27–62. ISBN 9783540433736. https://books.google.com/books?id=n04HU6f5FDYC&pg=PA27. Retrieved 20 March 2020. 
  14. ↑ Recknagel, F. (2009). "Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas". In Jørgensen, S.E.; Chon, T.S.. Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics. WIT Press. pp. 41–47. ISBN 9781845642075. https://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41. Retrieved 20 March 2020. 
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