Abstract
Environmental monitoring practices support decision makers of different government / private institutions, besides environmentalists and planners among others. This support helps them act towards the sustainability of our environment, and also take efficient measures for protecting human beings in general, but it is difficult to explore useful information from 'OGD' and assure its quality for the purpose. On the other hand, Monitoring itself comprises detecting changes as happens, or within the mitigation period range, which means that any source of data, that is to be used for monitoring, should replicate the information related to the period of environmental monitoring, or otherwise it's considered almost useless or history. <br><br> In this paper the assessment of information extraction and structuring from Open Government Data 'OGD', that can be useful to environmental monitoring is performed, looking into availability, usefulness to environmental monitoring of a certain type, checking its repetition period and dependences. The particular assessment is being performed on a small sample selected from OGD, bearing in mind the type of the environmental change monitored, such as the increase and concentrations of built up areas, and reduction of green areas, or monitoring the change of temperature in a specific area. The World Bank mentioned in its blog that Data is open if it satisfies both conditions of, being technically open, and legally open. The use of Open Data thus, is regulated by published terms of use, or an agreement which implies some conditions without violating the above mentioned two conditions. Within the scope of the paper I wish to share the experience of using some OGD for supporting an environmental monitoring work, that is performed to mitigate the production of carbon dioxide, by regulating energy consumption, and by properly designing the test area's landscapes, thus using Geodesign tactics, meanwhile wish to add to the results achieved by many efforts to make OGD useful In General and specifically for Environmental Monitoring purposes.
Highlights
1.1 OGD, Regulations and Geodesign “The notion of open data and open government data - information, public or otherwise, which anyone is free to access and re-use for any purpose - has been around for some years
In 2009 open data started to become visible in the mainstream, with various governments, announcing new initiatives towards opening up their public information. (Open foundation, Open Data Handbook Documentation, Release 1.0.0)
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLI-B4, 2016 XXIII ISPRS Congress, 12–19 July 2016, Prague, Czech Republic major purposes of this group fall under being central point of reference for interested parties in OGD, develop the principles openness of official government data, document the background and status of initiatives to make official information open in different countries, and provide the Support to develop OGD catalogues with ensuring interoperability of the different participating platforms
Summary
1.1 OGD, Regulations and Geodesign “The notion of open data and open government data - information, public or otherwise, which anyone is free to access and re-use for any purpose - has been around for some years. From the Open Knowledge organization an open government data working group was formalized, which is open by itself to anyone interested in OGD to join and contribute, the. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLI-B4, 2016 XXIII ISPRS Congress, 12–19 July 2016, Prague, Czech Republic major purposes of this group fall under being central point of reference for interested parties in OGD, develop the principles openness of official government data, document the background and status of initiatives to make official information open in different countries, and provide the Support to develop OGD catalogues with ensuring interoperability of the different participating platforms. The three major products of the working group are the open data handbook which is a general guide for open data, formulating the principles of OGD in guidelines built upon the Open Knowledge Definition and being developed at: (http://www.opendefinition.org/government/ ), and the third and final major product is the Data Catalogues, where an introductory to the data is provided besides supporting setting up instances of CKAN www.ckan.net around the world, which is a tool playing the role between the groups of interest and the governments providing the row data
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