New approaches to environmental monitoring: the use of ICT to explore volunteered geographic information

Gouveia, Cristina; Fonseca, Alexandra

doi:10.1007/s10708-008-9183-3

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“…Yet, because ICT platforms comprise broadband network infrastructure, wireless sensors technologies, and mobile devices [7,26], ICT is a powerful tool to facilitate data collection, validation, access, exploration, and communication [27]. And because ICT-based systems permit various stakeholders to assemble and share data pertaining to the interests of any given project [11], it is a popular choice in many fields. Environmental monitoring, for example, can be accomplished with broadband network infrastructure, wireless technologies, and mobile devices [26].…”

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“…Spatiotemporal integration of geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing (RS), and global positioning systems (GPS) can be used for site-specific monitoring data related to environmental planning and management decision-making [7]. ICT systems with e-services are commonplace for monitoring soil data, irrigation water data, and smart city design projects for flood control [2,7,11].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Environments 2017, 4, 50 3 of 13 flood control [2,7,11]. Further, with social webs and miniaturized sensors, ICT-based technologies can promote citizen participation in environmental monitoring, a topic that has been studied for the last two decades [11,28].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Further, with social webs and miniaturized sensors, ICT-based technologies can promote citizen participation in environmental monitoring, a topic that has been studied for the last two decades [11,28]. In terms of the IoT and the numerous technologies used in an ICT e-agriculture, a major challenge of achieving a comprehensive secure ecosystem for IoT architecture can be undertaken with blockchain technology [29].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Blockchain: The Evolutionary Next Step for ICT E-Agriculture

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Blockchain technology, while still challenged with key limitations, is a transformative Information and Communications Technology (ICT) that has changed our notion of trust. Improved efficiencies for agricultural sustainable development has been demonstrated when ICT-enabled farms have access to knowledge banks and other digital resources. UN FAO-recommended ICT e-agricultural infrastructure components are a confluence of ICT and blockchain technology requirements. When ICT e-agricultural systems with blockchain infrastructure are immutable and distributed ledger systems for record management, baseline agricultural environmental data integrity is safeguarded for those who participate in transparent data management. This paper reviewed blockchain-based concepts associated with ICT-based technology. Moreover, a model ICT e-agriculture system with a blockchain infrastructure is proposed for use at the local and regional scale. To determine context specific technical and social requirements of blockchain technology for ICT e-agriculture systems, an evaluation tool is presented. The proposed system and tool can be evaluated and applied to further developments of e-agriculture systems.

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Section: From Ict To Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Ict To Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Ict To Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Blockchain: The Evolutionary Next Step for ICT E-Agriculture

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“…Credibility, reliability and quality of VGI are among the main issues being raised [2,[19][20][21][22]. VGI can be perceived as lacking credibility and reliability because it is produced by non-experts in a context that highly differs from the "structured institution-initiated and expert-driven contexts" [2].…”

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Semantic Interoperability of Sensor Data with Volunteered Geographic Information: A Unified Model

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et al. 2013

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Abstract:The increasing availability of sensor devices has resulted in important volumes of sensor data, which has raised the issue of making these data fully discoverable and interpretable by applications and end-users. The idea of OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) has addressed this issue by proposing a set of standards to enable accessibility of sensor data over the Web. Similarly, there is a growing interest in volunteered geographic information (VGI). Considering that several researchers have highlighted the potential of this new type of information as a complement to existing, "traditional" data, it becomes important to develop frameworks to support the integration of VGI from several sources and with other types of data. In this paper, we make a first step in this direction by proposing a framework for the semantic interoperability of sensor data and VGI. After having performed an investigation of the types of VGI applications, we have developed a conceptual model of VGI aligned with relevant ISO standards for describing geospatial features. The purpose of this model is to support the generation of common descriptions for VGI applications, which will act as interfaces to higher-level services, such as discovery and reasoning services, in order to be exploited in conjunction with sensor data by client applications. This process is described through architecture for semantic interoperability of sensor data and VGI that we have developed and that we intend to use to set guidelines for future research on integration of VGI in sensor data cyberinfrastructures. We illustrate the

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