Keywords

Decision support, EEA, SEIS, INSPIRE, Copernicus.

Location

Session D3: Advances in Environmental - Decision Support - Software Systems

Start Date

12-7-2016 11:50 AM

End Date

12-7-2016 12:10 PM

Abstract

The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union. Its task is to provide sound, independent information on the environment. EEA is a major information source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public. Currently, the EEA has 33 member countries. The paper introduces updated decision support tools of the EEA which integrate information and communication technologies (ICT) and data management. There are discussed relevant Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), databases and sharing data with the European Copernicus programme, data centres of EEA, Eurostat and the Joint Research Centre including the Shared Environmental Information System and INSPIRE activities.

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Jul 12th, 11:50 AM Jul 12th, 12:10 PM

Decision support tools of European Environment Agency

Session D3: Advances in Environmental - Decision Support - Software Systems

The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union. Its task is to provide sound, independent information on the environment. EEA is a major information source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public. Currently, the EEA has 33 member countries. The paper introduces updated decision support tools of the EEA which integrate information and communication technologies (ICT) and data management. There are discussed relevant Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), databases and sharing data with the European Copernicus programme, data centres of EEA, Eurostat and the Joint Research Centre including the Shared Environmental Information System and INSPIRE activities.