Spatial Information Preparedness for Environmental Enforcement in the Maltese Islands

Saviour Formosa, Janice Formosa Pace and Elaine Sciberras
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Saviour Formosa: Department of Criminology, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Janice Formosa Pace: Department of Criminology, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Elaine Sciberras: Malta Environment & Planning Authority, Floriana, Malta

International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), 2013, vol. 4, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: Spatial analysis of the environment takes place within various competing but parallel domains; physical, social, and natural environments partake to datasets that have the same baseline requirements as are a reliable topographic layer, updated aerial/remote imagery and dissemination tools. The process has proven to be arduous, expensive and barrier-strewn due to data costs, access issues and lack of interactive sites. The Maltese Islands have implemented a system that integrates the transposition of legislative measures as well as ensuring free dissemination through the launching of an initiative based on the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS). The latter activity sought to take the next step into the dissemination of spatial and environmental data to the academic, scientific and public communities. The Malta initiative was aimed to take national environmental monitoring capacity and the relative enforcement processes to a fully interactive online system, where users can analyse the potential infringements.

Date: 2013
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