INTAMAP Publications

Published peer reviewed journal papers

Baume, O., J. O. Skøien, G. B. M. Heuvelink, and E. J. Pebesma (2008) A geostatistical approach to data harmonization - application to radioactivity exposure data. Submitted to Envir. Monit. And Ass.

Brenning, A. and G. Dubois (2007) Towards generic real-time mapping algorithms for environmental monitoring and emergency detection. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 22(5): 601-611

Chorti, E., and D. T. Hristopulos (2008) Nonparametric identification of anisotropic (Elliptic) correlations in spatially distributed data sets. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56 (10 I): 4738-4751.

D’Alimonte, D. and D. Cornford (2007) Outlier detection with partial information: Application to emergency mapping. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 22(5): 613-620

Dubois, G. (2008) Editorial. Advances in automatic interpolation for real-time mapping. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 22(5): 597-599

Elogne, S. N., D. T. Hristopulos, and M. Varouchakis (2007) An application of Spartan Spatial Random Fields in environmental mapping: Focus on automatic mapping capabilities. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA), 22(5): 633-646

Heuvelink, G.B.M., Z. Jiang, S. De Bruin and C. Twenhöfel (2008), Optimization of mobile radioactivity monitoring networks. International Journal of GIS (in press).

Hiemstra, P.H., E.J. Pebesma, C.J.W. Twenhöfel and G.B.M. Heuvelink (2009), Real- time automatic interpolation of ambient gamma dose rates from the Dutch radioactivity monitoring network. Computers & Geosciences (in press).

Ingram, B., D. Cornford, and D. Evans (2007) Fast algorithms for automatic mapping with space–limited covariance functions. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 22(5): 661-670

Kazianka, H. and Pilz, J. (2009): Copula-based geostatistical modeling of continuous and discrete data including covariates. Accepted for publication in: Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment.

Melles, S.J., G.B.M. Heuvelink, C.J.W. Twenhöfel and U. Stöhlker (2008a). Sampling optimization trade-offs for long-term monitoring of gamma dose rates. In: ICCSA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Eds. O. Gervasi, B. Murgante, A. Laganà, D. Taniar, Y. Mun, M. Gavrilova), vol. 5072, 444-458.

Pilz, J., and G. Spöck (2007) Why do we need and how should we implement Bayesian kriging methods. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 22(5): 621-632

Skøien, J. O., G. Blöschl, E.J. Pebesma (2008) Geostatistics for automatic estimation of environmental variables - some simple solutions. Georisk, Vol. 2 No. 4, 259-272.

Skøien, J. O., O. Baume, E. J. Pebesma and G. B. M. Heuvelink (accepted) Identifying and removing heterogeneities between monitoring networks, accepted for publication in Environmetrics.

Spöck, G., Kazianka, H.and Pilz, J. (2008): Baysian trans-Gaussian Kriging with log-log transformed skew data. to appear in: J. Pilz (Ed.) Interfacing Geostatistics and GIS. Springer, Berlin.

Szegvary, T., F. Conen, U. Stöhlker, G. Dubois, P. Bossew, G. de Vries (2007) Mapping terrestrial gamma-dose rate in Europe based on routine monitoring data. Radiation measurements, 42(9): 1561-1572

Books

Pilz, J. (2009): Interfacing Geostatistics and GIS. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York.

Conference presentations

geoENV VI - Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. November 2006, Rhodes, Greece.

Pebesma, E.J., Dubois, G. and D. Cornford (2008). The challenge of real-time automatic mapping for environmental monitoring network management.

ICMS, Smoothing-Based and Gaussian-Process-Based Methods for Non-Parametric Regression in Environmental Problems. March 2007, Edinburgh, UK

Cornford, D. (2007) Data assimilation, Bayesian inference and Gaussian processes: opportunities and challenges.

EGU 2007, April 2007, Vienna, Austria, Natural Hazards session.

Skøien, J.O., Pebesma, E., Blöschl, G. (2007). Geostatistics for automatic estimation of environmental variables - simple solutions.

ISESS 2007 – International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, May 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

Williams, M., Cornford, D., Ingram, B., Bastin, L., Beaumont, T., Pebesma, E. and G. Dubois (2007). Supporting interoperable interpolation: the INTAMAP approach.

5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality, June 2007, ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands

Jiang, Z., S. De Bruin, G.B.M. Heuvelink and C.J.W. Twenhöfel (2007), Optimization of mobile radioactivity monitoring networks.

32nd Spring Lecture Series, University of Arkansas, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistics, Fayetteville, April 12-14, 2007

Spöck, G., Noninformative priors with special application to spatial statistics, talk.

StatGIS 2007, September 2007, Klagenfurt, Austria.

Cornford, D. Data assimilation, Bayesian inference and Gaussian processes: opportunities and challenges.
Baume, O., J.O. Skoien, G.B.M. Heuvelink, E.J. Pebesma (2007) Geostatistical approach to data harmonization – application to radioactivity exposure data. Environment and Ecological Statistics.
Chorti A. and D. T. Hristopulos (2007) Automatic Detection of Spatial Anisotropy in Environmental Data Sets.
Skoien, J.O., O. Baume, E.J. Pebesma, G.B.M. Heuvelink (2007) Identifying and removing heterogeneities between monitoring networks.
Spöck, G (2007) Bayesian trans-Gaussian Kriging and the Uncertainty of Variogram Estimates.

INTERCAL 2007 Schauinsland, External dose rate measurements at the Schauisland intercalibration site, November 2007, Freiburg, Germany.

J. O. Skøien (2007) The INTAMAP project - first results.

EGU 2008, April 2008, General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

D. T. Hristopulos, A.Chorti, G. Spiliopoulos and E. Petrakis(2007) Systematic detection of anisotropy in spatial data obtained from environmental monitoring networks. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2008-A-03671.
Skøien, J.O.; Pebesma, E. J (2008) Real-time mapping in emergency situations – some preliminary results.
Williams, M; Cornford, D; Bastin, L; Ingram, B. (2008) Web Processing Service based interoperable, automated, interpolation.
Williams, M; Cornford, D; Bastin, L; Ingram, B. (2008) UncertML - XML language for exchanging uncertainty. poster.
Skøien, J. O., L. Gottschalk, E. Leblois, E. J. Pebesma (2008) Interpolation with irregular support - examining a simplification.

GISRUK2008, Manchester, UK 2-4 April.

Williams, M., Cornford, D., Bastin, L. and Ingram, B. R., 2008. UncertML: an XML schema for exchanging uncertainty.

ECORAD 2008, International Conference on Radioecology and Environment Radioactivity, 2008 Bergen Norway .

Stöhlker, U., M. Bleher, T. Szegvary, F. Conen (2008) Inter-calibration of gamma dose rate detectors on the European scale.

GEOSS SensorWeb Workshop, 15-16 May 2008, Geneva, Switzerland

J. de Jesus (2008) INTAMAP. INTeroperability and Automated MAPping. U. Stohlker(2008) The German gamma dose rate network.

ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands 2008, 21-22 May

Stöhlker, U., Conen, F.: "Radioactivity use for SM measurement", The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Science Advisory Group, Minutes of the Twenty-Third Meeting

GI-Days 2008, 16-18 June 2008, Münster, Germany

De Jesus, J., Dubois G., Hiemstra, P. (2008). Web-based geostatistics using WPS.
Skøien, Jon O., Olivier Baume, Edzer J. Pebesma and Gerard B. M. Heuvelink(2008) Automatic detection and correction of heterogeneities between measurement networks. (paper).
S.J. Melles, J. Beekhuizen, S. de Bruin, G.B.M. Heuvelink, A. van Dijk and C.J.W. Twenhofel (2008) Optimizing monitoring networks for contaminant dispersion. Proceedings accepted.
Cornford, D. (2008) Uncertainty: the key to interoperable geospatial processing? Keynote
Williams, M., Cornford, D., Bastin, L. and Ingram B., (2008) A conceptual model for uncertainty – UncertML, Best Poster Winner
Ingram, B. D.Cornford, (2008) An approach to sensor fusion using geostatistics. Poster.

MODA 8, 4th-8th June 2007, Almagro, Spain

Spöck, G., Spatial covariance-robust minimax prediction based on experimental design ideas, talk.

53rd Annual Meeting og the Health Physics Society (American conference of radiological safety), 13-17 July 2008 Pittsburgh, US

Stohlker, U., M. Bleher (2008) The Schauinsland Intercalibration facility. 53th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society.

The R User Conference 2008, August 12-14, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

Henneböhl, K., Pebesma, E., 2008. Providing R functionality through the OGC Web Processing Service.

GeoEnv 8-10 September 2008, Southampton, UK

Baume, O., Skøien, J.O, Heuvelink, G.B.M. , Pebesma, E.J. (2008). Bias removal in heterogeneous spatial data: simple solutions and a practical application.
Beekhuizen, J., Melles, S.J., de Bruin, S. Heuvelink, G.B.M. van Dijk, A. Twenhöfel, C.J.W. (2008). Dealing with uncertainty in determining the optimal locations of mobile devices.
Ingram, B. R., Cornford, D., and Csato, L., (2008) Robust automatic mapping algorithms in a network monitoring scenario. Paper
Ingram,B., Cornford, D.(2008) Parallell geostatistics for sparse and dense datasets. Paper
Kazianka, H. and J. Pilz (2008): Spatial interpolation using copula-based geostatistical models. Paper
Spöck, Gunter (2008): Bayesian locally stationary trans-Gaussian kriging using generalised Voronoi tessellations. Paper
Williams, M., Cornford, D., Bastin, L. and Ingram, B. R., 2008. Exchanging uncertainty. Interoperable geostatistics?

ICCSA, GEOG-AN-MOD Workshop, Perugia, Italy (2008)

Melles, S.J., Heuvelink, G.B.M., Twenhöfel,, C.J.W., Stöhlker, U. (2008). Sampling optimization trade-offs for long-term monitoring of gamma dose rates.

4th International conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Bio and Earth Sciences 2008, Athens, 18-19 Sept

Pilz, J., Kazianka, H.ans Spoeck, G. (2008) Interoperability – Spatial Interpolation and Automated Mapping.(paper).

7th International Semantic Web Conference 2008, 26 October, Karlsruhe, Germany

Williams, M., Cornford, D. and Bastin, L., 2008. Describing and Communicating Uncertainty within the Semantic Web, Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Workshop

“Rainfall Estimates for Crop Monitoring and Food Security” 1st Workshop 2008. 22 - 23 October, Ispra, Italy

Dubois, G. and J. de Jesus (2008). INTAMAP. Interoperability and automated mapping.

Adaguc 2008 (Atmospheric data access for the geospatial user community) workshop, Dec 4/5

Hiemstra, P. H., E. J. Pebesma, G. B. M. Heuvelink, C. J. W. Twenhöfel (2009) Explaining the variation in radioactivity levels by the variation in rainfall intensity.
Pebesma, E., 2008. Interoperability and automated mapping: past, intamap, future. Invited presentation

Geostats 2008, 1-5 December, Santiago, Chile

Baume, O.P., J.O. Skøien, G.B.M. Heuvelink and E.J. Pebesma (2008), Data harmonization with geostatistical tools: a Bayesian extension. Paper
Ingram, B., Cornford, D., Csato, L., 2008. A projected process kriging algorithm for sensor networks with heterogeneous error characteristics.
Spöck, Gunter and J. Pilz (2008): Non-stationary spatial modelling using harmonic analysis. Paper
Skøien, J. O., E. J. Pebesma, G. B. M Heuvelink (2008) Unbiased block predictions and exceedance probabilities for environmental thresholds.
Skøien, J.O., O.P. Baume, E.J. Pebesma and G.B.M. Heuvelink (2008), Block predictions and exceedance probabilities for a non-stationary process.
Pilz, J., Baysean Spatial Sampling Design.

VITO, Belgium, Apr 24, 2009. Invited lecture, modelling and monitoring group

Pebesma, E., L. Gerharz, Dynamische modellering van luchtkwaliteit in bijna echt-tijd (in Dutch).

OSIRIS Sensor Web Workshop 23rd and 24th March 2009, Münster (Germany)

Pebesma, E. 2009. INTAMAP: Interoperability and automated mapping. Invited presentation

EGU 200919-24 April, General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Skøien, J., E. J. Pebesma, G. Blöschl, 2009. rtop – an R package for interpolation along the stream network. Presented at EGU General assembly, (poster).
Skøien, J., Gottschalk, L., Leblois, E. (2009) Interpolation with irregular support – examining a simplification. Presented at EGU General assembly, (poster).

INTERCAL 2009Freiburg Germany, March 18-20.

J. O. Skøien (2007) The INTAMAP project.

ISRSE 2009; 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment May 4-8, 2009 Stresa, Italy

Dubois, G., de Jesus, J., Doherty, B., Cornford, D. and E. Pebesma (2009) Lessons Learned from INTAMAP, an Interoperable Web Service for the Real- Time Interpolation of Environmental Variables.

EURADOS/AIRDOS Meeting in Ispra, June 2009

Stöhlker U., Bleher M. (2009) Harmonization of GDR data. Extended

EU TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT 2009, March 25-27, 2009. Prague, Czech Republic

Pebesma E., Dubois, G. and D. Cornford (2009). Automated mapping of environmental variables from a SEIS or SISE perspective. In: Proceedings of “EU TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT (Challenges of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe”. J. Hrebicek, J. Hradec, E. Pelikan, O. Mirovsky, W. Pilmmann, I.Holoubek, R. Legat (eds.) Masaryk University, 2009.
Baume, O. P., Skøien, J. O., Carre, F., Heuvelink, G.. B. M. and Pebesma, E. J., 2009, Data harmonization of environmental variables: from simple to general solutions. Presented at: European conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU: TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT (Challenges of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe). http:/www.e-envi2009.org/proceedings/ J. HÂ¿ebÃ-Â¿ek, J. Hradec, E. PelikÃ¡n, O. MÃ-rovskÃ½, W. Pillmann, I.Holoubek, T. Bandholtz (eds.) Masaryk University.

GEOSS sensor web workshop 2009, Geneva, May.

Stöhlker, U. German gamma dose rade (GDR) network.

IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 24 June 2009 "Technical Meeting on Sources and measurements of radon and radon progeny applied to climate and air quality studies",

Stöhlker, U.: "Using wide area ambient dose rate networks as proxy for radon flux and soil mosture", IAEA/WMO

StatGIS 2009, 16-18 June 2009, Milos, Greece.

Baume. O.P., A. Gebhardt, C. Gebhardt, G.B.M. Heuvelink and J. Pilz (2009a), Network optimization algorithms and scenarios in the context of automatic mapping. In: Proceedings StatGIS 2009, Geoinformatics for Environmental Surveillance (ed. G. Dubois).
Bisier, J. A framework for comparing spatio-temporal interpolaters.
de Jesus, J., Barillec, R., Dubois, G. and D. Cornford (2009). A Web Processing Service for Validating Interpolation. In: Proceedings StatGIS 2009, Geoinformatics for Environmental Surveillance (ed. G. Dubois).
Hiemstra, P. H., E. J. Pebesma, G. B. M. Heuvelink, C. J. W. Twenhöfel, Karssenberg, D., van Dijk, A. (2009) Estimating the space-time distribution of radioactivity levels by combining monitoring network data and atmospheric transport models. poster
Hristopulos, D.T. (2009) An Approximate Explicit Minimum Curvature Estimator Based on Spartan Spatial Random Fields. In: Proceedings StatGIS 2009 Geoinformatics for Environmental Surveillance (ed. G. Dubois).
Hristopulos, D.T., G. Spiliopoulos, E. Petrakis and A. Chorti (2009), Non- parametric estimation of geometric anisotropy in scattered data from environmental sensor network measurements, In: Proceedings StatGIS 2009 Geoinformatics for Environmental Surveillance (ed. G. Dubois).
Ingram, B., Cornford, D. and Barillec, R., 2009. Projected Sequential Gaussian Processes: Flexible Interpolation for Large Data Sets.
Kazianka, H. and Pilz, J. (2009): Bayesian spatial modelling and interpolation using copulas. Paper
Melles, S.J., G.B.M. Heuvelink, C.J.W. Twenhöfel, A. Van Dijk, P. Hiemstra, O. Baume and U. Stöhlker (2009). Optimization for the design of environmental monitoring networks in routine and emergency settings. In: Proceedings StatGIS 2009, Geoinformatics for Environmental Surveillance (ed. G. Dubois).
Pebesma, E., Cornford, D., Dubois, G., Heuvelink, G., Hristopoulos, D., Pilz, J., Stoehlker, U., Skoien, J., 2009. INTAMAP: an interoperable automated interpolation web service.
Skøien, J., E. J. Pebesma, G. Blöschl, 2009. rtop – an R package for interpolation along the stream network. poster.
Spöck, G. (2009): Bayesian locally-stationary trans-Gaussian Kriging using generalized Voronoi tessellations. Paper
Spöck, G., Kazianka, H. and Pilz, J. (2009): Modeling and interpolation of non-Gaussian spatial data: a comparative study. Poster
Stoehlker, U., G. Dubois, De Jesus, S. Burbeck, M. Bleher, E. Pebesma (2009). Real-time mapping for environmental surveillance: A decision- maker’s perspective. In: Proceedings of the StatGIS09, GeoInformatics for Environmental Surveillance (ed. G. Dubois).
Williams, M., Cornford, D., Bastin, L., Jones, R. and Parker, S., 2009. Automatic processing, quality assurance and serving of real-time weather data over lightweight protocols.
Katharina Henneböhl, Lydia E. Gerharz, Edzer J. Pebesma, 2009.An OGC web service architecture for near real-time interpolation of air quality over Europe.
Zukovic, M. and D. T. Hristopulos (2009) Conditional simulations of anisotropic spatial data with global gradient-curvature constraints. Proceedings StatGIS 2009 Geoinformatics for Environmental Surveillance (ed. G. Dubois).

OGC Open Geospatial Consortium, 2009

Williams, M., Cornford, D., Bastin, L. and Pebesma., E., 2009. Uncertainty Markup Language (UncertML). Discussion Paper, Document Number: 08- 122r1.

All deliverables delivered as reports

All deliverables from Sept 2008 to Sept 2009 have not yet been approved by the European Commission, and should be considered as draft, not final documents; final documents can be expected by the end of 2009

D 1.1 Capturing user requirements for an automatic mapping system
D 1.2 Communication to and from web service
D 1.3 R implementation of a simple mapping algorithm and development / integration of support tools
D 1.5 Papers, conference and journals
D 1.6 Implementation of a web client
D 1.7 Reference implementation of the web service
D 1.8 Description of reference implementation of the web service
D 2.1 Bayesian spatial analysis
D 2.2 Bayesian spatial analysis and anisotropies
D 2.3 Improved methods for hyper-parameter identification in the sparse, sequential framework
D 2.6 Technical report on code developed in R
D 3.1 Bayesian trans-gaussian kriging
D 3.2 Bayesian disjunctive kriging
D 3.3 Sequential methods using robust likelihood models
D 3.4 Spatial Interpolation Using Copulas
D 3.8 R-code for spatial Interpolation Using Copulas
D 4.2 R codes for heterogeneous monitoring networks
D 4.3 Aggregating geostatistical predictions
D 4.4 Sparse, sequential methods for a range of observation types and spatial supports
D 4.5 Integrated R code for monitoring networks
D 4.6 Environmental monitoring network optimization scenarios
D 4.7 Monitoring network optimization
D 5.1 Early warning systems: Identifying anomalies with monitoring networks
D 5.2 Early warning systems: From national to international networks
D 5.3 Monitoring networks for airborne radioactivity
D 5.4 Data sets scenarios generated for routine and emergency monitoring
D 6.2 Draft validation plan for the automatic mapping web service, including specification of test data
D 6.4 Implementation of an IMIS web-client
D 6.6 Assessment of Intamap for automatic interpolation of radiological scenario datasets
D 6.7 Assessment of Intamap for automatic interpolation of other environmental data
D 6.8 "GeoInformatics for Environmental Surveillance” Organization of a Workshop
D 7.3 First year report
D 7.3 annex First year report: using and dissiminating knowledge
D 7.4 Second year report
D 7.4 annex Second year report: using and dissiminating knowledge