• closedAccess   A virtual globe tool for searching and visualizing geo-referenced media resources in social networks 

      Beltran Fonollosa, Arturo; Abargues Casanova, Carlos; Granell, Carlos; Núñez Redó, Manuela; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Huerta, Joaquin Springer (2012)
      The current collaborative context and resource sharing that drives Web 2.0 is gaining importance within academia and industry, which is stimulating the development of new techniques for content retrieval, sharing and ...
    • openAccess   Acceso ágil a redes de sensores. Un caso de estudio de monitorización de datos de calidad del aire y metereológicos 

      Trilles, Sergio; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Huerta, Joaquin Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (2013-11)
      En el presente trabajo se pretende incrementar la interoperabilidad y accesibilidad de estos datos para que los usuarios puedan utilizarlos en diferentes escenarios y con variedad de necesidades dependiendo del lugar y ...
    • openAccess   Agile access to sensor network 

      Trilles, Sergio; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Huerta, Joaquin AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The work in this paper aims at increasing the interoperability and improving accessibility of data provided by sensor networks. This way, this data can be employed by different devices and with diverse context requirements, ...
    • openAccess   Approach to Facilitating Geospatial Data and Metadata Publication Using a Standard Geoservice 

      Trilles, Sergio; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Huerta, Joaquin MDPI (2017-04)
      Nowadays, the existence of metadata is one of the most important aspects of effective discovery of geospatial data published in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). However, due to lack of efficient mechanisms integrated ...
    • openAccess   Assessment of OGC Web Processing Services for REST principles 

      Granell, Carlos; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Tamayo Fong, Alain; Huerta, Joaquin Inderscience (2014)
      Recent distributed computing trends advocate the use of REpresentational State Transfer (REST) to alleviate the inherent complexity of the web services standards in building service-oriented web applications. In this paper ...
    • openAccess   Assisted Generation and Publication of Geospatial Metadata 

      Trilles, Sergio; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Gil, José; Huerta, Joaquin AGILE (2012)
      Today, the existence of metadata is one of the most important factors for the effective discovery of geospatial data published in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). However, due to the lack of efficient ...
    • openAccess   Building Standards-Based Geoprocessing Mobile Clients 

      Tamayo Fong, Alain; Granell, Carlos; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Huerta, Joaquin AGILE (2012)
      The adoption of geoprocessing service clients in mobile devices seems to be still rare, even when the communication protocol provided by the Web Processing Service (WPS) seems to fit the philosophy of accessing ...
    • openAccess   Citizen-based sensing of crisis events: sensor web enablement for volunteered geographic information 

      Schade, Sven; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Ostermann, Frank; Spinsanti, Laura; Luraschi, Gianluca; Cox, Simon; Núñez Redó, Manuela; De Longueville, Bertrand Springer Verlag (2011-07-19)
      Thanks to recent convergence of greater access to broadband connections, the availability of Global Positioning Systems in small packages at affordable prices and more participative forms of interaction on the Web (Web ...
    • openAccess   Construyendo un sistema de indexación y búsqueda de recursos georreferenciados 

      Beltran Fonollosa, Arturo; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Huerta, Joaquin Servicio de Sistemas de Información Geográfica y Teledetección (SIGTE), Universitat de Girona (2012-03)
      La cantidad y variedad de recursos georreferenciados disponibles en la web crece día a día. Este hecho demuestra el interés de los usuarios y el papel fundamental que la información con contexto geográfico juega en ...
    • openAccess   Developing a Forest Data Portal to Support Multi-Scale Decision Making 

      McInerney, Daniel; Bastin, Lucy; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Figueiredo, Carlos A.; Barredo, José I.; San Miguel-Ayanz, Jesús Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2012)
      Forests play a pivotal role in timber production, maintenance and development of biodiversity and in carbon sequestration and storage in the context of the Kyoto Protocol. Policy makers and forest experts therefore require ...
    • openAccess   Discovery and integration of Web 2.0 content into geospatial information infrastructures: a use case in wild fire monitoring 

      Núñez Redó, Manuela; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Gil, José; González, David; Huerta, Joaquin Springer (2011)
      Efficient environment monitoring has become a major concern for society to guarantee sustainable development. For instance, forest fire detection and analysis is important to provide early warning systems and identify ...
    • openAccess   Enhancing integrated environmental modelling by designing resource-oriented interfaces 

      Granell, Carlos; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Schade, Sven; Ostländer, Nicole; Huerta, Joaquin Elsevier (2013)
      Integrated environmental modelling is gaining momentum for addressing grand scientific challenges such as monitoring the environment for change detection and forecasting environmental conditions along with the consequences ...
    • openAccess   Evaluación del uso y necesidades de información geoespacial de los profesionales en prevención y extinción de incendios forestales 

      Aragó Galindo, Pau; Granell, Carlos; Huerta, Joaquin; Díaz Sánchez, Laura Geofocus (2012)
      La información geoespacial necesaria para la gestión de los incendios forestales es muy amplia y diversa. Cada profesional que interviene en un incendio forestal actúa en diferentes fases (prevención, extinción), contexto ...
    • openAccess   Geospatial information infrastructures to address spatial needs in health: Collaboration, challenges and opportunities 

      Granell, Carlos; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Díaz Sánchez, Laura Elsevier (2013)
      Most health-related issues such as public health outbreaks and epidemiological threats are better understood from a spatial–temporal perspective and, clearly demand related geospatial datasets and services so that decision ...
    • openAccess   GI Systems for Public Health with an Ontology Based Approach 

      Gur, Nurefsan; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Kauppinen, Tomi AGILE (2012)
      Public health research brings substantial benefit to society. Finding data in an efficient way is necessary to carry out relevant space time analysis to address particular studies such as mortality ...
    • openAccess   Global earth observation initiatives: European contributions to GEOSS 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Granell, Carlos; Huerta, Joaquin; Simonazzi Domínguez, Walter Novática (2009-04)
      This article provides an introduction to European initiatives relating to spatial and environmental data policy contribut- ing to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). We begin by describing the background ...
    • openAccess   gvSOS: a new client for the OGC® Sensor Obseration Service Interface standard 

      Tamayo Fong, Alain; Huerta, Joaquin; Granell, Carlos; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Quirós Bauset, Ricardo Wiley-Blackwell (2009-06)
      A key problem with sensor networks is achieving interoperability between different networks potentially built using different software and hardware platforms. Services interfaced by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) ...
    • openAccess   Iniciativas globales para la Observación de la Tierra: Contribuciones europeas a GEOSS 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Granell, Carlos; Huerta, Joaquin; Simonazzi Domínguez, Walter Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (2009)
      El presente trabajo introduce las iniciativas europeas en materia de política espacial y datos medioambientales que contribuyen al Sistema Global de Sistemas para la Observación de la Tierra (Global Earth Observation ...
    • openAccess   Integración de modelos medioambientales en infraestructuras de datos espaciales: Un caso de uso en predicción de incendios 

      Trilles, Sergio; Juan, Pablo; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Huerta, Joaquin Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (2012-02)
      Hoy en día los incendios forestales son unas de las principales amenazas medioambientales más crecientes a las que nos exponemos [2]. Esto produce la pérdida de bienes humanos y lo que es peor, la destrucción de la parte ...
    • openAccess   Interoperable Search Mechanisms for Web 2.0 Resources 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Núñez Redó, Manuela; González, David; Gil, José; Aragó Galindo, Pau; Pultar, Edward; Huerta, Joaquin European Commission (2012)
      We are currently witnessing ordinary citizens willing to share geospatial information using friendly and easy-to use tools provided by Web 2.0 platforms. These platforms act as social networks describing events with ...