TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rafoss, Trond
A1  - Skahjem, Jarle
A1  - Johansen, John Atle
A1  - Johannessen, Ståle
A1  - Nagothu, Udaya Sekhar
A1  - Fløistad, Inger S.
A1  - Sletten, Arild
T1  - Improving pest risk assessment and management through the aid of geospatial information technology standards
T2  - NeoBiota
N2  - Delivery of geospatial information over the Internet for the management of risks from invasive alien species is an increasingly important service. The evolution of information technology standards for geospatial data is a key factor to simplify network publishing and exchange of maps and data. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)-geolocation specification is a recent addition that may prove useful for pest risk management. In this article we implement the W3C-geolocation specification and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) mapping standards in a Web browser application for smartphones and tablet computers to improve field surveys for alien invasive species. We report our first season field experiences using this tool for online mapping of plant disease outbreaks and host plant occurrence. It is expected that the improved field data collection tools will result in increased data availability and thereby new opportunities for risk assessment, because data-needs and availability are crucial for species distribution modelling and modelbased forecasts of pest establishment potential. Finally, we close with a comment on the future potential of geospatial information standards to enhance the translation from data to decisions regarding pest risks, which should enable earlier detection of emerging risks as well as more robust projections of pest risks in novel areas. The forthcoming standard for processing of geospatial information, the Web Processing Standard (WPS), should open new technological capabilities both for automatic initiation and updating of risk assessment models based on new incoming data, and subsequent early warning.
KW  - Pest
KW  - risk
KW  - mapping
KW  - mobile
KW  - GPS
KW  - geospatial
KW  - standards
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32386
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-323865
IS  - 18
SP  - 119
EP  - 130
ER  -