[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...

In this paper, we identify security objectives and requirements for a class of ubiquitous computing technology, namely environmental sensing infrastructure. The method used starts with analyzing scenarios to define user-driven security objectives for specific applications and identify hints to potential misuse in a realistic setting. The described applications are examined to understand how the...

Building environmentally friendly software and hardware systems is about understanding and respecting the requirements that are imposed by climate change or regulation. This is especially true, as those systems often require inter-disciplinary collaboration between domain experts who might not have a software or systems engineering background. Existing requirements models lack in three dimensio...

Quantifying actual evapotranspiration (ETa) over natural vegetation is crucial in evaluating the water status of ecosystems and water-use patterns local or regional hydrological basins. Remote sensing-based surface energy balance models have been used extensively for estimating ETa agro-environments; however, application these to still limited. The algorithm land (SEBAL) physical-based model wa...

An appropriate environmental flow (AEF) is one of the necessary conditions for fish spawning. The operation cascade reservoirs in lower reaches Jinsha River has changed discharge process downstream, which turn directly affected spawning habitat fishes. Determining how to quantitatively evaluate impact different outflows from Xiangjiaba Reservoir on four major Chinese carp species downstream are...