There is no doubt that today, perhaps more than ever before,
humanity faces a myriad of complex and demanding challenges. These
include natural resource depletion and environmental degradation,
food and water insecurity, energy shortages, diminishing
biodiversity, increasing losses from natural disasters, and climate
change with its associated potentially devastating consequences,
such as rising sea levels. These human-induced and natural impacts
on the environment need to be well understood in order to develop
informed policies, decisions, and remedial measures to mitigate
current and future negative impacts. To achieve this, continuous
monitoring and management of the environment to acquire data that
can be soundly and rigorously analyzed to provide information about
its current state and changing patterns, and thereby allow
predictions of possible future impacts, are essential. Developing
pragmatic and sustainable solutions to address these and many other
similar challenges requires the use of geodata and the application
of geoinformatics. This book presents the concepts and applications
of geoinformatics, a multidisciplinary field that has at its core
different technologies that support the acquisition, analysis and
visualization of geodata for environmental monitoring and
management. We depart from the 4D to the 5D data paradigm, which
defines geodata accurately, consistently, rapidly and completely,
in order to be useful without any restrictions in space, time or
scale to represent a truly global dimension of the digital Earth.
The book also features the state-of-the-art discussion of Web-GIS.
The concepts and applications of geoinformatics presented in this
book will be of benefit to decision-makers across a wide range of
fields, including those at environmental agencies, in the emergency
services, public health and epidemiology, crime mapping,
environmental management agencies, tourist industry, market
analysis and e-commerce, or mineral exploration, among many
others.  The title and subtitle of this textbook
convey a distinct message. Monitoring -the passive part in the
subtitle - refers to observation and data acquisition, whereas
management - the active component - stands for operation and
performance. The topic is our environment, which is intimately
related to geoinformatics. The overall message is: all the
mentioned elements do interact and must not be separated.
 Hans-Peter B ahr, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c., Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.
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