A lot of geospatial data has become available at no charge in many countries recently.
Geospatial data that is currently made available by government agencies usually do not …

Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) techniques have become increasingly
popular in remote sensing. GEOBIA has been claimed to represent a paradigm shift in …

This study investigates the concentration, cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity and
hygroscopic properties of particles influenced by biomass burning in the eastern …

The growing volume, variety and complexity of data being collected for scientific purposes
presents challenges for data integration. For data to be truly useful, scientists need not only …

Wildfire is one of the main hazards affecting large areas and causes great damage all over
the world, and the rapid development of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) increases the …

Historical maps provide rich information for researchers in many areas, including the social
and natural sciences. These maps contain detailed documentation of a wide variety of …

Standard disaster response involves using drones (or helicopters) for reconnaissance and
using people on the ground to mitigate the damage. In this paper, we look at the problem of …

Copernicus is the European programme for monitoring the Earth. It consists of a set of
complex systems that collect data from satellites and in-situ sensors, process this data, and …

Big Earth-observation (EO) data that are made freely available by space agencies come
from various archives. Therefore, users trying to develop an application need to search …

This article presents a novel approach to wildfire risk assessment and behaviour prediction
by leveraging open geospatial data and ontologies. The proposed methodology includes a …