MOBILE ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Authors: ANTIKAINEN, HARRI¹; COLPAERT, ALFRED¹; JAAKO, NIINA¹; RUSANEN, JARMOV¹; BENDAS, DAN²; MYLLYAHO, MAURI²; OIVO, MARKKU²; KUVAJA, PASI²; SIMILÄ, JOUNI²; MARJONIEMI, KYÖSTI³; LAINE, KARI³; SAARI, ESKO³

Source: Cybernetics and Systems, Volume 35, Numbers 7-8, -8/October-December 2004 , pp. 737-751(15)

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd

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Abstract:

This paper presents the foundations for building mobile environmental information systems (MEISs) requiring an interdisciplinary approach. MEISs require expertise from the disciplines of environmental biology, geography, and mobile technology. MEISs show great promise for the acquisition of environmental information using different mobile devices. Automatic mobile acquisition enables the forwarding of the information to central databases for storage, further processing, and transmission to the mobile devices in a form that is useful to the users. Furthermore, these systems have the potential to be used both in the protection of nature, as well as in recreational use in a way that takes the constraints of nature into account. In this paper we describe the preliminary results of the MINNE project and the prototypes currently under research in the project.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01969720490499939

Affiliations: 1: Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Oulun Yliopisto, Finland 2: Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Oulun Yliopisto, Finland 3: Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Oulun Yliopisto, Finland

Publication date: 2004-10-01

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