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Geoinformation
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Scientific issues
Societies experience major demographic, economic, technical, political and social evolutions which are accompanied by rapid changes in land cover and use, in access to resources and in the mutual pressures between man and its environment. Indeed the environment evolves in response to external natural (climate, biological fluxes...) and anthropic (land development, exploitation of resources, pollution...) pressures and according to their own biophysical processes.
Understanding the causes of these changes, controlling their impacts on societies and their natural environment, and, at the same time anticipating the resulting evolutions are the main challenges for environmental assessment. This requires developing knowledge on the environment, its functioning and the processes which affect it, to understand societal dynamics and their drivers, and to conceive modes of management, policies of sustainable development and frameworks for regulation. In such an approach, the spatial dimension of the environment and of the territories is fundamental and needs to be taken into account. This, at the same time, implies developing careful spatial and territorial approaches and controlling the spatial information from its acquisition and processing to its use, through its analysis, diffusion and appropriation.
Objective of the Geoinformation pillar
As the first cross-cutting methodological pillar of PEER, its first objective is to create permanent exchange between the research projects carried out in PEER institutes. It will also enable the sharing of knowledge and the design of common approaches, and will progressively create synergies and critical mass avoiding redundant work, thus contributing to the dynamic integration of the PEER institutes.
Research focus (examples)
- Shared representation of environmental information: representation of environmental systems (modelling methods; individual characterisation of perceptions of the environmental system by every stakeholder; construction of modes for shared representation as a support for joint management…).
- Spatial information: methodological efforts related to collection of georeferenced data via portable or on-board systems (sensors, positioning, communication); processing of satellite remote sensing data (including VHR, radar and lidar); data processing and fusion.
- Co-operative information systems: design and implementation methods for information systems (ISs) adapted to environmental management issues as well as to interoperability methods within these or among divergent ISs (joint design of GIS and communicating systems; interoperability of information systems).
- Development of ISs for environmental management: this prospective and cross-functional research axis aims at a more effective conceptualisation of integrated methods of IS analysis, design and development. Those are based upon operational experiences in environmental ISs development with reference to the management and information sciences. The resulting overall methodological framework serves in guiding approaches to the future establishment of environmental ISs.
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CEMAGREF - Centre for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research (France)
Shared scientific methods
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Mr. Sylvain Labbé
CEMAGREF - Centre for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research
Avenue Agropolis
F-34394 Montpellier Cedex 5
France
Tel.: +33-0-467 5487 47
Fax.: +33-0-467 5487 00
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