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This DEXA workshop focuses on modern technology for the design and construction of Information and Decision Support Systems for Forestry and the Environmental Sciences. Amongst the most important requirements of Forestry and Environmental Management, are : (i) the need for monitoring information on Damage and Disturbances, including Fire (ii) for reliable information on diversity to aid in efforts to conserve Biological, Landscape and Social Diversity which is associated with forests and the environment, and (iii) accurate forest inventory data, often remotely sensed, which may be used to guide sustainable management of natural resources for the effective production of timber and NTFPs. Technology currently adopted includes (i) DC and XML for Forest Information catalogues, and (ii) Federated web services, for ensuring inter-operability of heterogeneous distributed databases. With the increased need for management decision support, based on access and use of such data resources, there will also be an increasing need for tools which enable data integration and fusion, and data analysis and modelling, as building blocks of a Decision Support System for Forestry and Environmental Management. Grid Technology is likely to be needed. Papers are invited which report either on the application of a new information and web technology to the area of forestry and the environment, or the problems in doing so. By co-location of the FEIDSS Workshop with the world-leading DEXA and DAWAK Conferences, it is hoped that there will be a strong synergy between the application and technology domains. |
