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Prevailing Problems in Environmental Data Management

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All stages of data collection and information retrieval reflect significant shortcomings such that a special effort must be put in managing our data systems to obtain the required information. The presented paper summarizes these shortcomings first in a general framework and then on specific steps of data management, i.e., design of data collection programs, physical sampling, laboratory analyses, data processing and transfer of data into information.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering Bornova, Dokuz Eylul University, 35100, Izmir, Turkey

    M. N. Alpaslan

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Dokuz Eylul University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    Nilgun B. Harmancioglu  & Sevinc D. Ozkul  & 

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Environmental Engineering Department, Dokuz Eylul University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    M. Necdet Alpaslan

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Vijay P. Singh

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Alpaslan, M.N. (1997). Prevailing Problems in Environmental Data Management. In: Harmancioglu, N.B., Alpaslan, M.N., Ozkul, S.D., Singh, V.P. (eds) Integrated Approach to Environmental Data Management Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5616-5_2

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