Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Industrial Environments and Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Designing for Sustainability: Lessons Learned from Four Industrial Projects

      • Patricia Lago, Roberto Verdecchia, Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Eko Rahmadian, Janina Sturm, Thijmen van Nijnanten et al.

      Pages 3-18

   3. Web Tool for the Identification of Industrial Symbioses in Industrial Parks

      • Anna Lütje, Sinéad Leber, Jonas Scholten, Volker Wohlgemuth

      Pages 19-34

   4. Deriving Benchmarks for Construction Products Based on Environmental Product Declarations

      • Anna Carstens, Tobias Brinkmann, Barbara Rapp

      Pages 35-50

3. Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Circular Economy in the Rostock Region. A GIS and Survey Based Approach Analyzing Material Flows

      • Ferdinand Vettermann, Samer Nastah, Laurine Larsen, Ralf Bill

      Pages 53-65

   3. Obsolescence as a Future Key Challenge for Data Centers

      • Fabian A. Schulze, Hans-Knud Arndt, Hannes Feuersenger

      Pages 67-78

   4. The Eco-label Blue Angel for Software—Development and Components

      • Stefan Naumann, Achim Guldner, Eva Kern

      Pages 79-89

   5. Sustainable Processes on the Last Mile—Case Study Within the Project ‘NaCl’

      • Uta Kühne, Mattes Leibenath, Camille Rau, Richard Schulte, Lars Wöltjen, Benjamin Wagner vom Berg et al.

      Pages 91-108

4. Environmental Modelling, Monitoring and Information Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Algorithmic Treatment of Topological Changes Within a Simulation Runtime System

      • Jochen Wittmann

      Pages 111-120

   3. Citizens in the Loop for Air Quality Monitoring in Thessaloniki, Greece

      • Theodosios Kassandros, Andreas Gavros, Katerina Bakousi, Kostas Karatzas

      Pages 121-130

   4. WISdoM: An Information System for Water Management

      • Marius Wybrands, Fabian Frohmann, Marcel Andree, Jorge Marx Gómez

      Pages 131-146

   5. Exploring Open Data Portals for Geospatial Data Discovery Purposes

      • Matthias Hinz, Ralf Bill

      Pages 147-162

5. Urban Environments and Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Developing a Configuration System for a Simulation Game in the Domain of Urban \(\text {CO}_{2}\) Emissions Reduction

      • Sarah Zurmühle, João S. V. Gonalves, Patrick Wäger, Andreas Gerber, Lorenz M. Hilty

      Pages 165-179Open Access

   3. Estimating Spatiotemporal Distribution of Moving People in Urban Areas Using Population Statistics of Mobile Phone Users

      • Toshihiro Osaragi

      Pages 181-192

   4. A Digital Twin of the Social-Ecological System Urban Beekeeping

      • Carolin Johannsen, Diren Senger, Thorsten Kluss

      Pages 193-207

   5. Utilizing CityGML for AR-Labeling and Occlusion in Urban Spaces

      • Patrick Postert, Markus Berger, Ralf Bill

      Pages 209-223

This book is an outcome of the 34th International Conference EnviroInfo 2020, hosted virtually in Nicosia, Cyprus by the Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE). It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific approaches and ongoing research in environmental informatics and the emerging field of environmental sustainability, promoted and facilitated by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The respective articles cover a broad range of scientific aspects including advances in core environmental informatics-related technologies such as earth observation, environmental modelling, big data and machine learning, robotics, smart agriculture and food solutions, renewable energy-based solutions, optimization of infrastructures, sustainable industrial processes, and citizen science, as well as applications of ICT solutions intended to support societal transformation processes toward the more sustainable management of resource use, transportation and energy supplies. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for scientists, experts and students in these fields of research.

Chapter “Developing a Configuration System for a Simulation Game in the Domain of Urban CO2 Emissions Reduction” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

• Environmental informatics
• Computational Sustainability
• Big Data
• Earth Observation and Monitoring
• Open and transdisciplinary science
• Environmental modelling and simulation
• Applications of geographical information systems
• Machine learning
• Smart cities
• Sustainable transportation and energy
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Health and food security
• Green software engineering
• Environmental information systems

• Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE), Nicosia, Cyprus

  Andreas Kamilaris

• School of Engineering—Technology and Life, HTW Berlin—University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

  Volker Wohlgemuth

• School of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Kostas Karatzas

• Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

Andreas Kamilaris is a team leader at the Pervasive Real-World Computing for Sustainability (SuPerWorld) Multidisciplinary Research Group (MRG) of the newly established Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE). In parallel, he is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) of the University of Twente. His research interests are Internet/Web of Things, geospatial analysis, pervasive computing, smart environments and machine learning.

Volker Wohlgemuth is a Professor for Industrial Environmental Informatics at the School of Engineering – Technology and Life, HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany. His research fields are Material Flow Management, Modeling and Simulation, Industrial Symbiosis and Environmental Management Information Systems.

Kostas Karatzas is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, leading the Environmental Informatics Research Group. Kostas does research in Environmental Informatics and Modelling, Mechanical Engineering and Computational Intelligence.

Ioannis Athanasiadis is an Associate Professor in Data Science with the Laboratory of Geoinformation Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University, Netherlands. His expertise includes data science, big data, environmental informatics, software engineering and intelligent information systems.

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