The role of digital technologies for fostering sustainability and efficiency in forest-based
supply chains is well acknowledged and motivated several studies in the scope of precision …

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) are being widely used in the environmental sciences to
share, discover, visualize and retrieve geospatial data through Open Geospatial Consortium …

With growing world population and concentration in urban and coastal areas, the exposure
to natural hazards is increasing and results in higher risk of human and economic losses …

Abstract Holonic and Service-Oriented Architectures have been proposed as solutions for
the conception of flexible and reactive systems. The combination of both architectures has …

Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential
role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as …

Spatial data have proven to be extremely useful in many areas. Accordingly, there are more
and more Web GIS solutions. These solutions allow the visualization of spatial data to all …

Spatial data infrastructure had ensured the availability of geospatial data over the local and
global boundaries to be used in more flexible and efficient manner. With the enhancement in …

Abstract OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS) specifications
allow interoperable access to distributed geospatial data made available through spatial …

Emergency management becomes more challenging in international crisis episodes
because of cultural, semantic and linguistic differences between all stakeholders, especially …

Recent advances in Web technologies have opened avenues to create socio-technical
platforms that can empower citizens in urban planning processes. The rise of the GeoWeb …