FOREWORD
This volume contains selected up-to-date professional papers prepared by
specialists from various disciplines related to geosciences and water resources.
Thirty papers discuss different aspects of environmental data modeling. It provides
a forum bringing together contributions, both theoretical and applied, with special
attention to Water in Ecosystems, Global Atmospheric Evolution, Space and Earth
Remote Sensing, Regional Environmental Changes, Accessing Geoenvironmental
Data and Ecotoxicological Issues.
"Geosciences and Water Resources: Environmental Data Modeling" is now the
fourth volume in the Series "Data and Knowledge in a Changing World".
Launched by CODATA after the 14th International Conference of the Committee
on Data for Sciences and Technology, in Chambery, the purpose of this new Series
is to collect from widely varying fields a wealth of information pertaining to the
intelligent exploitation of data in science and technology and to make that
information available to a multidisciplinary community.
The present series encompasses a broad range of contributions, including
computer-related handling and visualization of data, to the major scientific, technical, medical and social fields. The titles of the previous published volumes are:
The Information Revolution: Impact on Science and Technology.
Modeling Complex Data for Creating Information.
Industrial Information and Design Issues.
These titles, edited by 1. -E. Dubois and N. Gershon, demonstrate the objectives of
the series on Data and Knowledge which is open to contributions of various kinds,
namely those defined by E. Fluck:
fostering the improvement, not only of the quality and accessibility of
quantitative and qualitative data, but of the classical and groundbreaking methods by which numeric and symbolic data are acquired,
analyzed and managed;