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Title Page -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- Invited Talks -- eEnvironment: Reality and Challenges for eEnvironment Implementation in Europe -- Introduction -- Introduction to eEnvironment Vision -- eEnvironment and eDemocracy -- Development of eEnvironment Infrastructure -- eEnvironment and Digital Agenda for Europe -- eEnvironment Services in the Digital Agenda for Europe -- eEnvironment Services and European Neighbourhood -- eEnvironment and Open Government Data Initiative -- Vision for Extending eEnvironment to a Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment -- Conclusion -- References -- Making Progress in Integrated Modelling and Environmental Decision Support -- Introduction -- Integrated Modelling -- Where Are We Now? -- The Legacy of Models -- Protocols and Guidelines -- Participatory Modelling -- Paradigms for Integrated Modelling -- Methods and Tools -- The Software and Hardware Technology -- Where Would We Like to Be? -- Uncertainty Management -- Problem Framing -- Model and Data Assurance, Uncertainty and Sensitivity -- Long Term Modelling Projects -- Software Development Methodologies -- How Do We Get There and What Are the Opportunities? -- References -- Microsoft Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI), Eye on Earth Case Study -- Open Data Driving Open Government -- The Open Government Challenge -- Why is Public Data So Important? -- The European Open Government Data Initiative (European OGDI) Solution -- Overcoming Barriers towards Open Government -- Why Use the Cloud for Open Data? -- Open Data Projects Using Microsoft Technologies -- Open Data Terms of Use -- Case Studies -- Environmental Data Sharing: Eye on Earth a Cloud-Based, Web 2.0 Solution -- Open Data Applications: Rennes - Waste Collection Points -- Open Data Applications: Paris - Sorting on Streetside Trees.

Part 1: Keynotes and Context Articles ; International audience ; With the rise of social media platforms, crowdsourcing became a powerful tool for mobilizing the public. Events such as the earthquake in Haiti or the downfall of governments in Libya and Egypt indicate its potential in crisis situations. In the scope of this paper, we discuss the relevance of crowdsourcing in the area of crisis and disaster management (CDM). Starting with a general overview of the topic, we distinguish between different types of crowds and crowdsourcing and define what is meant by crowdtasking in the area of CDM. After considering technological, societal and ethical challenges for using crowdsourcing in crisis management, applications of crowdsourcing tools in ongoing projects are described and future developments outlined.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- Keynotes and Context Articles -- A Provenance Maturity Model -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The PMM -- 3 Evaluation -- 4 Related Work -- 5 Conclusion -- Challenges in Modelling of Environmental Semantics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Semantics for an Environmental Information Space -- 3 Case Study -- 4 Epilogue -- References -- Topics in Environmental Software Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Conference Landscape -- 2.1 EnviroInfo -- 2.2 ISESS -- 2.3 MODSIM -- 2.4 IEMSS -- 2.5 The White Spots on the Map -- 3 The ISESS Conference Series -- 4 A Complete History of Events -- 4.1 ISESS Conferences -- 4.2 ISESS Workshops and Co-organised Events -- 5 ISESS 2001-2009 Second Editions and Enviromatics.org -- 6 A Review of ISESS Topics -- 7 Patterns in Environmental Software Systems? -- References -- The Framework for Environmental Software Systemsof the European Environment Agency -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Structure of the Multiannual Work Programme 2014-2018 -- 3 Shared Environmental Information System -- 4 Copernicus -- 4.1 Earth Observation of the Land Services of Copernicus -- 4.2 Copernicus and INSPIRE -- 4.3 Copernicus Services Challenges -- 5 INSPIRE -- 5.1 INSPIRE Enabled Interoperability of Spatial Data Sets and Services -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Crowdsourcing in Crisis and Disaster Management -Challenges and Considerations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Crowdsourcing in Crisis Management -- 2.1 What Is Crowdsourcing? -- 2.2 Social Data Mining and Crowdsourcing in Crisis Management -- 2.3 Crowdtasking and Micro-task Markets -- 3 Use Cases, Existing Systems or Applications -- 3.1 Social Sensors for Security Assessments and Proactive EmergencyManagement -- 3.2 Environmental Crowdsourcing Techniques for Improved Water Qualityin Rural India.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Engaging Users: How to Make Decision Support Systems Relevant to Real Environmental Decision Makers (Abstract of Invited Talk) -- Contents -- Unsupervised Learning of Robust Representations for Change Detection on Sentinel-2 Earth Observation Images -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Change Detection Service -- 3.2 Framework -- 3.3 Approach and Implementation -- 4 Experiments -- 4.1 Data Description -- 4.2 Settings -- 4.3 Results -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Dietary Intake Assessment: From Traditional Paper-Pencil Questionnaires to Technology-Based Tools -- Abstract -- 1 Assessing Dietary Intake: Why? -- 2 Assessing Dietary Intake: How? -- 2.1 Methods of Recall -- 2.2 Methods of Real-Time Monitoring -- 2.3 Nutrient and Food Calculations -- 3 True vs. Measured Diet: Sources of Measurement Error -- 4 Assessing Dietary Intake: Which Method to Use? -- 5 Innovations -- 5.1 Compl-eatTM -- 5.2 Traqq -- 5.3 The Dutch FFQ-TOOLTM -- 5.4 Eetscore -- 5.5 Sensor-Based Wearable Dietary Assessment Methods -- 5.6 Biomarkers -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Computational Infrastructure of SoilGrids 2.0 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 General Framework -- 3 HPC Infrastructure -- 4 Parallelisation of Global Scale Geo-Spatial Computations -- 5 Resources Management with (sub-)tiling -- 6 Assemblage of Prediction Files -- 7 Reproducibility and Portability -- References -- Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation: Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Case Study and Beyond -- 3 Mapping Infrastructural Contestation -- 3.1 Method -- 3.2 Sources -- 4 Modes of Infrastructural Contestation -- 4.1 Contestation of Labour and Working Conditions -- 4.2 Contestation for the Right to Access.

Part 4: Environmental Applications in Risk and Crises Management ; International audience ; Based on governmental institutions and strong volunteer organizations, Austria provides a comprehensive and well developed emergency response system. As an important factor for the maintenance of the current quality standard of Austria's protection and emergency system, the further engagement of voluntariness has to be ensured and enhanced in the light of the ongoing societal change. On the one hand, the involvement of new media provides opportunities to expand the organizations' service portfolio to create a broader participation for citizens' engagement; on the other hand, long lasting and formal memberships are often a challenge for the current dynamic lifestyle. To face this situation, the involvement of new media services for volunteer management in order to enable new modes of voluntary binding is a promising strategically effort. A new process called "crowdtasking" dedicated to the improvement of volunteer management applying new media is discussed; new processes of volunteer management are presented by exemplary initiatives of humanitarian non-governmental organizations, such as the Austrian Red Cross.

Part 7: Analytics and Visualization ; International audience ; Migration is a major challenge for the European Union, resulting in early preparedness being an imperative for target states and their stakeholders such as border police forces. This preparedness is necessary for multiple reasons, including the provision of adequate search and rescue measures. To support preparedness, there is a need for early indicators for detection of developing migratory push-factors related to imminent migration flows. To address this need, we have investigated the daily number of geo-referenced Tweets in three regions of Ukraine and the whole of Japan from August 2014 until October 2014. This analysis was done by using the data handling tool Ubicity. Additionally, we have identified days when relevant natural, civil or political events took place in order to identify possible event triggered changes of the daily number of Tweets. In all the examined Ukrainian regions a considerable increase in the number of daily Tweets was observed for the election day of a new parliament. Furthermore, we identified a significant decrease in the number of daily Tweets for the Crimea for the whole examined period which could be related to the political changes that took place. The natural disasters identified in Japan do not show a clear relationship with the changes in the degree of use of the social media tool Twitter. The results are a good basis to use communication patterns as future key indicator for migration analysis.