In times of increasing disaster losses, the reduction (or mitigation) of consequences of natural hazard needs to be effective and efficient. An in-depth understanding of the effects of disasters, is required in order to develop forms of sustainable risk management as well as risk mitigation and adaptation strategies (Directive 2007/60/CE; IPCC, 2012). This is especially true given the limited f...

​: Time­series are an important aspect of environmental modelling, and are becoming more available through the requirements of the water framework directive as well as more important with the advancement of numerical simulation techniques and increased model complexity. For this reason, within the H2020 FREEWAT project, which aims at facilitating the adoption of modeling for water resource mana...

Forest industry today has some experience of using Open Source-programs. The article describes the Source QGIS plugins to solve forestry challenges for forest fire management and resources in scientific applied research. Undertaken analysis will simplify selection tools a geoinformation project Desktop Web versions. A general brief description modern (version 3.18.1) is given, are characterized...

Abstract Gully erosion affects the landscape and human life in many ways, including destruction of agricultural land infrastructures, altering hydraulic potential soils, as well water availability. Due to climate change, more areas are expected be affected by gully future, threatening especially low-income regions. In past decades, quantitative methods have been proposed simulate predict at dif...

OpenStreetMap (OSM), the most popular VGI crowdsourcing project, is an excellent example of an open-license spatial database. But what is the quality of OSM road network datasets compared to authoritative counterparts? Several comparisons of this kind are detailed in literature but these cannot be easily adapted to other scenarios. Developing a generic automated procedure is very challenging. T...