Ecoinformatics

The environmental computer science is a branch of applied computer science, and employs an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and evaluation of environmental issues with aid of computer science. Focuses on the use of simulation programs, geographic information systems ( GIS) and database systems.

Typical applications are:

  • Evaluation of information for economic and ecological optimization
  • Propagation models of pollutants
  • Simulation of solar and energy converting systems

The company's environmental computer science takes particular attention to the economic aspects of environmental computer science and is therefore in content between the environmental and economic computer science. In the company's operating environment is computer science in addition to the economic aspects of ensuring the proper operation of installations and locations. With their help, the transparency is increased ( for example, has observed that environmental and safety requirements of the operation), facilitates the fulfillment of reporting obligations and increases legal certainty ( eg protection from criminal consequences under § 6 Environmental Liability Act ).

Since theories and methods in environmental computer science can be applied to the computer science itself, it carries significant scientific roots of Green IT and can not yet be clearly identifiable thereof.

Special

In practice, often exist for both systems as well as for their application major challenges. Firstly, the required data structures through individual internal processes and the different perspectives of the environmental aspects (eg water protection, pollution control, hazardous materials ) very heterogeneous, on the other, the duties often change with new laws, there are regional ( eg, countries Regulations in water protection ), national (eg federal emission regulations ) or international (eg REACH). New approaches in computer science environment therefore rely on generic (customizable) data models and an integrated approach that unifies the different perspectives.

  • Conservation
  • Applied computer science
Green computing Integrated Authority File
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