CFP IJAEIS special issue 2009

International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) http://www.igi-global.com/IJAEIS

Call for Papers - Special Issue: Environmental and agricultural data processing for water and territory management

Planning: Abstract submission: October 01, 2009 Paper submission: November 01, 2009 Feedback from referees: December 15, 2009 Submission due date of revised paper: February 01, 2010 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2010 Submission of final revised paper: May 01, 2010

Guest Editors:

Sandro Bimonte, TSFC, Cemagref, France André Miralles, TETIS, Cemagref, France Objective of Special Issue: Information systems and decision support systems represent more and more powerful solutions to raise the recent challenges concerning water and territory management. In this context, collecting or acquiring environmental data is a true challenge. The techniques used (e.g. inquest) or the deployed instrumentation (e.g. satellite) are often complex and expensive. However, the data acquisition process is essential. Without relevant and quality information, the information systems become quickly inoperative. It is important to develop new techniques to improve and facilitate the acquisition of data. Environmental data are often georeferenced. One of the major characteristics of geographic data is its complexity. This type of information is described by two components: spatial and semantic components. The former describes the shape and the position of the objects on the earth surface and the latter is a set of descriptive attributes. In order to handle and manage the complex nature of georeferenced environmental information, different technologies, methods and systems must be developed. The objective of this special issue is to present the recent work or research in the field of environmental and agricultural data processing for water and territory management. This special issue will present the current tools and methods for the acquisition/extraction of data and their handling by information systems and decision support systems. This includes the processing of georeferenced data. The systems presented in the special issue will be dedicated to flood management and monitoring, landslides supervisions, studies of human activity effects on lands, lakes and rivers, water and air pollution monitoring, simulation of forest fires, etc. Recommended topics

Topics in computer science to be discussed in this special issue: 	Databases 	Data acquisition 	Remote sensing 	Knowledge discovery 	Data mining, spatial data mining 	Data Warehouse and OLAP 	Ontologies 	Multi-agents systems 	Multi-criteria Decision Analysis 	Computation of simulation models 	Spatial analysis and spatial statistical models 	Geographic Information Systems 	Geo-sensors networks information systems: querying and modeling 	Image analysis 	etc. Examples of expected environmental topics: 	Land use and planning 	Evolution of the rural land use 	Water resource management 	Flood management and monitoring 	Water pollution monitoring 	Wildlife management 	Landslides supervisions 	Forestry, forest fires and deforestation 	Social impacts of water and territory management 	Study of the impacts of agricultural activities on rural land 	etc. Submission Full guidelines for submission: http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp. All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of: Guest Editors:

Sandro Bimonte, sandro.bimonte@cemagref.fr André Miralles, andre.miralles@teledetection.fr	 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP