@article{GranellCanut2014,

title = {Geospatial information infrastructures to address spatial needs in health: Collaboration, challenges and opportunities},

author = { Carlos Granell-Canut and Óscar Belmonte-Fernández and Laura Díaz-Sánchez},

url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/89109},

doi = {10.1016/j.future.2013.04.002},

issn = {0167739X},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},

volume = {31},

number = {1},

pages = {213-222},

abstract = {Most health-related issues such as public health outbreaks and epidemiological threats are better understood from a spatial-temporal perspective and, clearly demand related geospatial datasets and services so that decision makers may jointly make informed decisions and coordinate response plans. Although current health applications support a kind of geospatial features, these are still disconnected from the wide range of geospatial services and datasets that geospatial information infrastructures may bring into health. In this paper we are questioning the hypothesis whether geospatial information infrastructures, in terms of standards-based geospatial services, technologies, and data models as operational assets already in place, can be exploited by health applications for which the geospatial dimension is of great importance. This may be certainly addressed by defining better collaboration strategies to uncover and promote geospatial assets to the health community. We discuss the value of collaboration, as well as the opportunities that geographic information infrastructures offer to address geospatial challenges in health applications. textcopyright 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},

note = {IF: 2.786, Q1},

keywords = {Geospatial Information Infrastructures, Geospatial services, Health applications, Spatial data infrastructures (SDI)},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{DiazSanchez2013,

title = {Publishing sensor observations into Geospatial Information Infrastructures: A use case in fire danger assessment},

author = { Laura Díaz-Sánchez and Arne Bröring and Daniel McInerney and Giorgio Libertá and Theodor Foerster},

url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/159894},

doi = {10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.06.002},

issn = {13648152},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

journal = {Environmental Modelling and Software},

volume = {48},

pages = {65-80},

publisher = {Elsevier Ltd},

abstract = {To improve environmental monitoring, the availability of large coverage, interoperable spatio-temporal data is crucial for its integration into environmental models, for example, to compute fire danger models. In order to produce up-to-date and accurate results, these models require data with high temporal and spatial resolution. Thus, it is promising to consider the increasing number of in-situ sensors providing observations of our environment in real-time. Today, interoperable access to such spatio-temporal data is achieved by Geospatial Information Infrastructures (GIIs). From a technical point of view, GIIs provide these data through standards-based Web service interfaces. While those Web service interfaces already enable the interoperable discovery and retrieval of sensor observations, the functionality to publish sensor observations is still an arduous task. Hence, in this paper, we present an approach to improve the registration of sensors and the publication of their observations via standards-based Web service interfaces. We evaluate our approach by extending a standards-based GII and by applying the developed approach as a proof of concept to integrate in-situ weather observations into the European Forest Fire Information System for assessing fire danger in Spain.},

note = {IF: 4.538, q1},

keywords = {Environmental models, EUROGEOSS, forest fire, Geospatial Information Infrastructures, OGC, Sensors, Spatial data infrastructures (SDI)},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{gil_open_2011,

title = {Open source based deployment of environmental data into geospatial information infrastructures},

author = { José Gil-Altaba and Laura Díaz-Sánchez and Carlos Granell-Canut and Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro},

url = {http://www.igi-global.com/article/open-source-based-deployment-environmental/65556},

doi = {10.4018/jagr.2012040102},

issn = {1947-9654},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

journal = {International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research},

volume = {3},

number = {2},

pages = {6--23},

abstract = {Today, scientists use local and closed geospatial solutions to run their models and store their results. This may limit their ability to share their models, and results with other interested colleagues. This scenario is changing with the advent of new factors such as the rapid growth and rise of open source projects, or new paradigms promoted by government organizations to manage environmental data, such as Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) directive, or the massive use of Web 2.0 techniques where users are looking for applications with a high degree of collaboration, interactiveness, and multimedia effects. Many authors address the versatility of Spatial Data Infrastructures where resources are shared and accessed via standard service according to complex specifications. In this context, the authors point out the need to merge the traditional building and maintenance of these infrastructures, driven by official providers, with these more participative methodologies where users can participate in creating and integrating information. It seems necessary to develop new geospatial tools which integrate these new trends. This paper proposes a unified solution offering to the scientific field an open development framework, based on standards and philosophies focused on new technologies and scientific needs.},

keywords = {Geospatial Information Infrastructures, INSPIRE, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI)},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}