MENVIS: mobile environmental information system

ABSTRACT

Mobile information dissemination and sharing infrastructure is being proposed to support ubiquitous government. We report a Mobile Environmental Information System (MENVIS) that delivers auto-guided environmental tour information for New Jersey and New York city government agencies that take initiatives on restoring degraded environment in urban areas. MENVIS is intended not only to support staff engineers and scientists to collect data from the field using mobile devices, but also enhance the exploring, learning and discovery experience of visitors, eco-tourists and students, while moving in and around urban environmental preservation areas.

REFERENCES

• 1: Soon Ae Chun , Vijayalakshmi Atluri , Nabil R. Adam, Using Semantics for Policy-Based Web Service Composition, Distributed and Parallel Databases, v.18 n.1, p.37-64, July 2005 [doi>10.1007/s10619-005-1073-9]
• 2: Soon Ae Chun , Vijayalakshmi Atluri , Nabil R. Adam, Dynamic composition of workflows for customized eGovernment service delivery, Proceedings of the 2002 annual national conference on Digital government research, p.1-7, May 19-22, 2002, Los Angeles, California
• 3: Scientific Data Website (2005) Digital Meadowlands, Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute. http://cimic.rutgers.edu/examples/scientific/index.html

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems

Keywords:
collaborative computing and learning, environmental data, location-based tour guide system, mobile information systems, ubiquitous government, web-based interaction