PUBLICATION | 2007 Spatial Information Systems in Crop Monitoring: Developing New Global Models and Sharing the Data The AGRIFISH unit of the Joint Research Centre, European Commission, has now nearly 20 years of experience with crop monitoring in and outside Europe. During this period, a number...
PUBLICATION | 2007 The Use of Stable Isotope Ratio Analyses to Discriminate Wild and Farmed Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus Aurata) see attached
PUBLICATION | 2008 Sketching upon Composite Indicators and Sustainable Tourism Issues Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of the fastest growing economic sectors, responsible for multitude of impacts, both positive and negative, on people's lives and on the environment. Simple...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Developing Composite Indicators for Policy-Making: A Brief Methodological Framework and Considerations This summary paper sketches upon the extent to which composite indicators (CIs) can effectively underpin the development of data-driven narratives for policy consumption. An attempt is made to summarise...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Settings and Methods for Global Sensitivity Analysis: A Short Guide Global sensitivity analysis offers a set of tools tailored to the impact assessment of certain assumptions on a model¿s output. A recent book on the topic covers those issues. Given...
PUBLICATION | 2009 Measuring Uncertainties in Composite Indicators of Sustainability Composite indicators are very common in economic and business statistics for benchmarking the relative progress of countries in a variety of policy domains such as industrial competitiveness, sustainable development...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Higher Education Rankings: Robustness Issues and Critical Assessment It has been often stated that European growth has been disappointing during the past three decades, remaining persistently lower than in the United States and this is to be...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Knowledge Economy: Measures and Drivers In the Knowledge-based Economy conceptual framework that was developed by MERIT a total of 115 individual indicators have been selected to measure the sub-dimensions of the KBE. The high number of individual...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Sensitivity Analysis of the 2008 Environmental Performance Index An assessment of the robustness of the 2008EPI results requires the evaluation of uncertainties underlying the index and the sensitivity of the country scores and rankings to the methodological choices made during the development of the Index. To test...
PUBLICATION | 2008 A Robust Built-up Area Presence Index by Anisotropic Rotation-invariant Textural Measure A procedure for the calculation of a texture-derived built-up presence index (PanTex) from textural characteristics of panchromatic satellite data is presented. The index is based on fuzzy rule-based composition of anisotropic textural...
