Preface

摘要

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Internet and Social media for Environmental Monitoring (ISEM) 2016 held in conjunction with the Third international conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2016), Florence, Italy. The aim of ISEM 2016 was to present the most recent works in the area of environmental monitoring based on Web resources and user-generated content from social media (e.g., photos of the sky). The advancements in digital technologies and the high penetration of the Internet have facilitated the sharing of environmental information, such as meteorological measurements and observations of natural surroundings. Since the analysis of environmental information is critical both for human activities (e.g., agriculture, deforestation) and for the sustainability of the planet (e.g., nature conservation, green living, eco-driving, etc.), it is of great importance to develop techniques for the retrieval and aggregation of environmental information that is available over the Internet. Of particular interest is the exploitation of user-generated content, which, despite being of inconsistent quality in many cases, could contribute important information regarding areas that are not monitored by existing stations. In this context, ISEM 2016 focused on analysis, retrieval, and aggregation of environmental data from the Internet and user-generated content posted on social media, as well as on personalized services and decision support environmental applications (e.g., to suggest outdoor activities based on the current environmental conditions).