Obtaining information about pest-insect population size is an important problem of pest monitoring and control. Usually, this problem has to be solved based on scarce spatial data about the population density. The problem of monitoring can thus be linked to a more general mathematical problem of numerical integration on a coarse grid. Numerical integration on coarse grids has rarely been consid...

In this paper logical techniques developed to formalise the analysis of multi-interpretable information, in particular belief set operators and selection operators, are applied to an ecological domain. A knowledge-based decision support system is described that determines the abiotic (chemical and physical) characteristics of a site on the basis of samples of plant species that are observed. Th...

The analysis of ecological diversity on a given study region constitutes a key topic in environmental studies. The quantitative aspects of ecological diversity are usually detected by means of the diversity indexes, which are ad hoc functions of the species abundance. Obviously, species abundance is unknown in practice. Hence, in order to obtain inference on diversity indexes, species abundance...

The operating theatre is a noisy place with many uninformative and redundant alarms. Using data from a recent observational study, we demonstrate that anaesthetists actively respond to only 3.4% of all audible alarms. We outline a range of possible solutions to the alarm problem. Ecological Interface Design (EID) helps to outline the requirements for an information environment for anaesthetists...

In the Netherlands, a number of organizations co-operate to develop a state-of-the-art, low-cost system to monitor biodiversity trends. This combined effort has lead to the Network Ecological Monitoring (NEM). Core business of the NEM is to arrange ecological monitoring activities in such a way that with minimal efforts, a maximum of purposes can be served. Monitoring purposes range from local ...

The paper introduces a real-time monitoring and forecasting system for ecological phenomena. The process yields a collection of ecological parameters viewed as distributed time series, which are measured by means of wireless network of sensors. The acquired data are preliminary processed and modeled by using complex algorithms in view of prediction. There are three graphical user interfaces imp...

One of the important goals of the next several decades is to achieve and maintain ecologically sustainable development of the biosphere. However, the management of ecological systems is rather difficult, largely because of uncertainties in long-term predictions of environmental and ecological behaviour. Thus, one of the objectives for integrated monitoring should be to provide early indications...