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| Preface | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Integrated Data Management: Where are We Headed? N.B. Harmancioglu | |
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| The Conversion of Data into Information for Public Participation in Decision Making Processes | |
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| Challenges in Transboundary and Transdisciplinary Environmental Data Integration in a Highly Heterogeneous and Rapidly Changing World | |
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| Information Technology and Environmental Data Management | |
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| Objectives and Institutional Aspects of Environmental Data Management | |
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| Information-Integration-Inspiration | |
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| Ocean Teacher: A Capacity Building Tool for Oceanographic Data and Information Management | |
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| Design of Data Collection Networks | |
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| Environmental Monitoring Time Scales: From Transient Events to Long-Term Trends | |
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| Regional Streamflow Network Analysis Using the Generalized Least Square Method: A Case Study in the Kizilirmak River Basin | |
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| Automated Water Quality Monitoring in Water Distribution Networks | |
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| Statistical Sampling | |
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| Uncertainty in Environmental Analysis | |
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| Physics of Environmental Frequency Analysis | |
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| Assessment of Outliers in Statistical Data Analysis | |
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| Physical Sampling and Presentation of Data | |
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| Modern Data Types for Environmental Monitoring and Water Resources Management | |
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| Assessing the Applicability of Hydrologic Information from Radar Imagery | |
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| Integrated Satellite Airborne Technology for Monitoring Ice Cover Parameters and Ice-Associated Forms of Seals in the Arctic | |
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| Environmental Databases | |
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| Integrated Application of United Kingdom National River Flow and Water Quality Databases for Estimating River Mass Loads | |
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| Integrated Multidisciplinary Marine Environmental Databases | |
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| Regional Environmental Changes: Databases and Information | |
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| Environmental Health Indicators in Europe: A pilot Project | |
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| Data Processing, Analysis and Modeling | |
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| Downscaling of Continental-Scale Atmospheric Forecasts to the Scale of a Watershed for Hydrologic Forecasting | |
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| Upscaling Surface Flow Equations Depending upon Data Availability at Different Scales | |
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| Integration of Intelligent Techniques for Environmental Data Processing | |
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| Integrated Use of Monitoring and Modeling in Water Resources Research | |
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| Remote Sensing and GIS | |
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| DBMS/GIS Applications in Integrated Marine Data Management | |
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| The Use of Satellite Remote Sensing Data in Numerical Modeling of the North Pacific Circulation | |
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| Application of GIS Technology in Hydrometeorological Modeling | |
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| Satallite Observation of Aral Sea | |
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| Remote Sensing of the Lacustrine Environment: Data Sources and Analysis | |
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| Transfer of Data into Information | |
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| From Data Management to Decision Support | |
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| Urban Drainage, Development Planning and Catchment Flood Management GIS Contrasts in the U.K. | |
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| Metadata as Tools for Integration of Environmental Data and Information Production | |
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| Perspective Decisions and Examples on the Access and Exchange of Data and Information Products Using Web and XML Applications | |
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| Conclusions and Recommendations | |
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| Conclusions and Recommendations | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| List of Abbreviations and Acronyms | |