plant life and food production for human closely depend on fertile and healthy soil. knowledge about qualitative properties of soil and its potential production can contribute us in the plantation, fertilization, utilization and land management. in addition, rangelands cover a very large portion of the earth's surface and play an important role in food security and other ecosystem services. the...

the wide availability of data on air pollutant emissions, the knowledge already achieved on theset of chemical and photochemical reactions in the troposphere, the ability to access real time weatherconditions at the local scale that determine the transport and transformation of gases and aerosol, now make it possible to obtain credible and reliable predictions, retrospective analyses and/or fut...

This paper provides a methodology to assess the quality of generalised geographic data. Generalisation consists in representing in a simplified way a same geographic space, according to the scale and to the objectives of the map. The approach is based on (1) a data characterisation in its initial and final state at different level of analysis, (2) a data quality assessment from the comparison o...

Data quality tools aim at detecting and correcting data problems that affect the accuracy and efficiency of data analysis applications. We propose a classification of the most relevant commercial and research data quality tools that can be used as a framework for comparing tools and understand their functionalities.

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While national statistical offices and other central agencies that use administrative health data tend to have data quality programs in place, primary collectors of these data (e.g., hospitals or out-of-hospital medical service organizations) might be less likely to have such programs in place. This paper presents a preliminary Data Quality Checklist, which is based on the theory and practices ...