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Multimedia Databases and Image Communication

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Monitoring Electromagnetic Pollution: A GIS-Based Visual Approach

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In the last years, the attention of the public community on electromagnetic pollution has continuously grown. In this paper we argue that the use of Geographic Information Systems in this domain should be encouraged as a valid support to the monitoring activities related to this phenomenon. In particular, our proposal of a visual environment, the Metaphor GIS Query Language is shown to provide a fruitful combination of GIS technology and visual languages, which have the double advantage of assisting electromagnetism experts in the measurement tasks, and facilitating non-expert users who might be interested in the level of EMF pollution in a given area.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Baronissi, SA, 84081, Italy

    Luca Paolino, Monica Sebillo, Genoveffa Tortora & Giuliana Vitiello

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Salerno, via S. Allende, 84081, Baronissi, Italy

    Maurizio Tucci

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Paolino, L., Sebillo, M., Tortora, G., Vitiello, G. (2001). Monitoring Electromagnetic Pollution: A GIS-Based Visual Approach. In: Tucci, M. (eds) Multimedia Databases and Image Communication. MDIC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44819-5_8

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