Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics : Digital Twins for Sustainability

This book is an outcome of the 34th International Conference EnviroInfo 2020, hosted virtually in Nicosia, Cyprus by the Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE). It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific approaches and ongoing research in environmental informatics and the emerging field of environmental sustainability, promoted and facilitated by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The respective articles cover a broad range of scientific aspects including advances in core environmental informatics-related technologies such as earth observation, environmental modelling, big data and machine learning, robotics, smart agriculture and food solutions, renewable energy-based solutions, optimization of infrastructures, sustainable industrial processes, and citizen science, as well as applications of ICT solutions intended to support societal transformation processes toward the more sustainable management of resource use, transportation and energy supplies. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for scientists, experts and students in these fields of research.

Andreas Kamilaris is a team leader at the Pervasive Real-World Computing for Sustainability (SuPerWorld) Multidisciplinary Research Group (MRG) of the newly established Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE). In parallel, he is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) of the University of Twente. His research interests are Internet/Web of Things, geospatial analysis, pervasive computing, smart environments and machine learning.

Volker Wohlgemuth is a Professor for Industrial Environmental Informatics at the School of Engineering – Technology and Life, HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany. His research fields are Material Flow Management, Modeling and Simulation, Industrial Symbiosis and Environmental Management Information Systems.

Kostas Karatzas is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, leading the Environmental Informatics Research Group. Kostas does research in Environmental Informatics and Modelling, Mechanical Engineering and Computational Intelligence.

Ioannis Athanasiadis is an Associate Professor in Data Science with the Laboratory of Geoinformation Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University, Netherlands. His expertise includes data science, big data, environmental informatics, software engineering and intelligent information systems.