Ocean remotely sensed image analysis using two-dimensional continuous wavelet transforms Li-Chung Wu a , Laurence Zsu-Hsin Chuang b , Dong-Jiing Doong c & Chia Chuen Kao a a Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan b Institute of Ocean Technology and Marine Affairs, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan c Department of Marine Environ...

There are contrasting ways to understand the Web: as global technical infrastructure, the largest ever information construct, and as social new media. Existing communities of ICT for sustainability, such as environmental informatics, Green ICT, and even the more recent sustainable HCI, tend to focus on engineering and the individual user. However, the Web’s full potential to advance environment...

The Environmental Informatics community could recently celebrate its 20th anniversary. The application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to problems of environmental research and management has made considerable progress and contributes to sustainable development. Moreover, ICT has the potential to virtualize processes that would otherwise consume considerable amounts of materia...

As part of the Environmental Informatics and Visualization Laboratory at UMass Boston, we are creating the Eco Flight Simulator – a system for visualizing landscape patterns, ecosystem processes and biodiversity data. Many state and federal agencies are currently gathering large amounts of spatial data via aerial photographs and satellite imagery that can be used for seeing the landscape (distr...

[Motivation:] Environmental sustainability is an important concern. Information and communication technology (ICT) innovation is ambivalently positioned with regard to our rapid development and shortening innovation cycles. On one hand, information technology facilitates the (excessive) usage of resources. On the other hand, ICT can also help to significantly reduce human impact on the environm...

The on-going economic development of EU-countries as well of the countries in the C&E European region has been leading to a significant use of a great deal of natural resources as well as to noticeable environmental problems. The lack of a wide-spread environmental awareness from the side of those acting in various sectors (industry, public administration, users) sometimes inhibit the implement...

Sustainable development requires the decoupling of economic growth from environmental impacts and from the use of natural resources. This article gives an overview of existing approaches to using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the service of sustainability: Environmental Informatics, Green ICT, and Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). These approaches are then discus...