Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag (Germany) Springer Verlag
Résumé : The present study aims to review palaeoecological evidence for environmental changes induced by human activities over the last few millennia in the montane landscapes of Morocco. The study is based on well-dated pollen and geochemical records from the Rif and the Middle Atlas mountains, to show spatial and temporal variation in the onset and intensity of exploitation of forest, soil and mineral resources. Before ca. 2000 BP, anthropogenic impact was minimal. At about that time, abrupt changes of the arboreal pollen proportions, with a decline in all tree taxa, indicate a reduction of the forest cover interpreted as being anthropogenic. In the Rif Mountains, increased influx of carbonates (Ca) in the sedimentary records indicates enhanced soil erosion coincident with the reduction in tree cover. In the Middle Atlas, reduced forest cover is linked to geochemical evidence for mining and metallurgy of lead (Pb), copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn). These industrial activities correspond to the expansion of the Roman Empire into Morocco at around AD 40 and show a decline when the Romans were displaced by the Vandals about five centuries later.
ISSN: 0263-0338

hal-01217206
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01217206
DOI : 10.1007/s10437-015-9186-7

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA)
Résumé : International audience
This paper introduces an approach illustrating how the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) framework can be used in order to build a franco-lebanese observatory. We present the practical application of SWE services as a source of real-time observation data and the associated technical architecture for making near real-time observations available to end users on the Web. We discuss the question of crossing sensor data with other data sources, e.g., data provided by human observations. We illustrate our approach by describing the methodology to integrate a first illustration case to monitor snow weather stations in the Lebanese Mountains.
ISSN: 1726-5479

lirmm-01381092
https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-01381092

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD ACM
Résumé : International audience
Environmental resources (e.g., air quality, water quantity) are needed to understand fundamental questions such as global change. Such resources are often collected from sensors, including humans acting as sensors. Tools have emerged to manage such data in the form of time series and, in particular, the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) which offers a framework based on predefined relational database schema. Environmental observatories can be built using such frameworks, allowing to address specific key scientific questions by collecting and sharing large-scale environmental data. However, the strict schema of SOS database makes it difficult to integrate some data that cannot be directly mapped to the schema. Guidelines and best practices are offered in the literature in order to reuse standards from the Semantic Web but they do not cover all needs. In particular, they do not help to reflect the fact that a single environmental database can lead to several SOS models. Since being aware of these multiple possibilities is crucial for a better use of the observatories, we argue that some extensions of the existing works are required. In this paper, we thus propose an extension of existing vocabularies to achieve this goal. Our contribution is illustrated on the real case of the Lebanese-French O-LiFE environmental observatory.
6th ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
Nimes, France

lirmm-01381082
https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-01381082
https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-01381082/document
https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-01381082/file/presentationwims_s1_2.pdf
DOI : 10.1145/2912845.2912856

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
9th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
Venise, Italy

lirmm-01381091
https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-01381091