1st Edition

Global Monitoring The Challenges of Access to Data

By Ray Harris, Richard Browning Copyright 2005
254 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

254 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

This highly technical work is at the leading edge of spatial analysis. It covers the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative in the international context of access to environmental data. This book identifies the data policy issues, such as intellectual property rights, privacy, licensing and archiving policies, that affect environmental monitoring organisations,... Read more
Introduction and Objectives; Documented Data Policies; Socio-Economic Data; Evidence of Data Access Challenges; Evidence from Application Projects; Evidence of Good Practice; Data Access and the Internet; Interoperability, Linkage and Data Access; A European Shared Information Service; Institutional Factors; Socio-Economic Benefits Analysis of Global Environmental Monitoring; Conclusions and Recommendations.

Biography

Ray Harris, Richard Browning